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2905 Al Vescera Pt 1 Sep 27, 2026

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Al hates his father, an abusive alcoholic. Unaware that he has dyslexia, Al fells inferior, daydreams and doesn’t handle conflict. He quits jobs and joins the army where they make him an electronics instructor. His father dies and Al still hates him. Hospitalized several times, he volunteers because he likes the praise. At home he fights with his mother. He goes to technical college, dos well but fails a political science class, then quits without graduating. He joins a group of men who form a company that does well but he works too much. A Christian invites him to church and he goes, falls in love but is rebuffed. Then he is saved, and decides to travel the country, searching for God’s will. The first part ends when he is arrested in St. Louis after an accident.

2899 Neil Schlang Pt 1 Sep 27, 2026

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Neil is born with congenital glaucoma. His poor Orthodox Jewish family moves downstate so he can attend the state school for the blind. There he encounters prejudice but makes a few friends among the black students, who introduce him to boogie-woogie music which becomes a passion. Because of prejudice about Jews, he decides to study Hebrew and passes his bar mitzvah, planning to be a rabbi. Liberal teaching ends that interest and he pursues music becoming an accomplished piano player. Because he is overweight and blind, no girls are interested in him. He graduates and goes to college, meeting Christians who take him to church. He doesn’t drink or use drugs but he becomes an “atheist”, playing in nightclubs. The first part ends when his mother dies.

2900 Neil Schlang Pt 2 Sep 27, 2026

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Neil shares an apartment with another musician. A friend takes him to a Sunday evening service where he hears Truth that makes him miserable. He thinks of suicide. Then a friend comes by and leads him to Christ. Neil tells everybody, including his family, who are upset but don’t disown him. He loses his job and goes to Bible college. His blind friend, Joe, is his best friend. Desperate for love, Neil hears about Cathy, calls her and they begin a romance that ends in marriage and ministry as evangelists. He suffers from disk collapse in his back but hopes to return to preaching.

2901 Melva Harding Pt 1 Sep 27, 2026

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Melva and her family move from Kansas to western Colorado when she is nine. At seven she had gone forward during a tent revival for salvation but doesn’t feel saved later, listening to a radio preacher. She lives by good works, obedient to parents and studying hard in school. Because the family is poor, she works for room and board in high school and earns a scholarship to college where she tries smoking but doesn’t drink. She drops out after the first year, goes home and works as a secretary. She begins dating Wayne, who goes to church with her and gets saved. The first part ends as he walks away when she refuses to marry him.

2902 Melva Harding Pt 2 Sep 27, 2026

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Melva and Wayne get back together and marry. While he’s away at the Korean War, a new preacher creates doubt in her heart about her salvation. When Wayne returns, he tries several jobs then confesses that he’s running from God, Who called him into ministry. She’s thrilled, and they go to Bible college. She sits in on his classes and again feels troubled about her soul but decides she must be saved. After Wayne begins his first pastorate, their old pastor comes to preach. He confronts Melva about her lost condition. Other women admit their doubts. Finally, when she is 34, Melva asks God to show her, and He leads her to Romans where she sees her sin and repents.

2903 Ron Comfort Pt 1 Sep 27, 2026

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Ron’s grandmother stops his mother from throwing him out the window as a baby. The next seven years he endures his mother’s drunkenness, immorality and neglect while his dad is away in the army. He and his older brother join gangs in Brooklyn. His mother finally sends the children by bus to live with their dad who has remarried. The family moves to North Carolina where a woman prays for them and takes them to church. Ron’s dad and stepmother get drunk and fight every weekend. His dad wants Ron to be in show business and gets him onto a local radio station. His brother joins the Air Force, is saved and comes home to witness. Ron professes faith but is really saved during a revival weeks later. The first part ends as Ron witnesses to his dad.

2904 Ron Comfort Pt 2 Sep 27, 2026

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Ron and his brother, Billy, spend the summer street preaching together. After three weeks of preaching in the town rescue mission, Ron receives enough money from donations to go to the Christian academy his brother attends – over his dad’s objections. He completes college and becomes a full-time evangelist, working with friend, Larry. He meets and marries a young woman who is saved at one of his revivals. Then his eyesight deteriorates and he is diagnosed with Keratoconus. He eventually has a corneal transplant, teams up with Larry and they travel the world as evangelists. His dad is saved. In 1989 he starts a college for preachers.

2906 Al Vescera Pt 2 Sep 27, 2026

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Al witnesses to inmates in the jail and the judge, who dismisses the charges. Al also shares the gospel with a neighbor, John; but he is awkward as he continues his odyssey West, seeking God’s will. He stops in Wichita and works for an airplane company where he has his first experience seeing someone yield to Christ. He drives on to Los Angeles, where he hears a Messianic Jew on Christian radio and learns personal evangelism with him. He quits his job to attend a missionary training school and goes to Africa as a missionary for three years. He does well at evangelism but has problems with other missionaries. Eventually, he leaves the mission to be an independent missionary, going to 40 countries.

2896 Steve Sokola Sep 27, 2026

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Steve grows up without his father. Between three marriages to alcoholics, his mother works at a tavern run by Steve’s Aunt Lil. Steve and his brother steal from the tavern as well as their aunt and uncles’ cars for joyriding. At 16 Steve and two buddies attempt a burglary but are caught. Aunt Lil helps him bail out. Steve, his brother and mother go forward at a church service, but fall away from the faith. Steve flaunts the law by drag-racing. Then his brother is nearly killed in an accident, and he urges Steve to get right with God. Three months later Steve feels the Lord calling him. He goes to church and is saved. He witnesses to his uncles and aunt but they stall. His aunt is killed later, but his uncle comes to Christ before he dies. Steve marries, goes to Bible college and seminary and is still a pastor.

2911 Frank Hampshire Pt 1 Sep 27, 2026

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The first part begins as Frank visits an inmate in prison. He relates how he was bullied by his older brother and hoped the brother would get killed in Vietnam, then felt responsible when this happened. He is expelled from school many times; his mother threatens to kill him and banishes him from home except to sleep. His father doesn’t know what to do. Frank goes into a black depression, and at 15 sees a psychiatrist at school. He steals, lies and is permanently expelled for violence. He and a friend smoke pot and steal marijuana from a grower. The first part ends as Frank, now saved, witnesses to the inmate.

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