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3020 “Trudy” Sep 27, 2026

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Trudy’s parents are religious until she’s twelve and they start listening to Christian radio. They receive Christ, but her father leaves when she’s 17. She quits seeing Dad who remarries. Trudy works to help her mother financially until her siblings graduate, then Trudy goes to missionary training in Canada. There she meets Jeff and they marry. They serve in Manaus, Brazil. When her mother is dying of cancer, Trudy cares for her until she dies. After 22 years she is reconciled with her dad, and all the siblings are there when he dies. Still serving in Brazil.

3000 Kathy Wellin Sep 27, 2026

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Kathy’s bitterness toward her busy father causes many problems: bulimia, rebellion, drinking and a bad attitude. She meets Kip in high school and they go off to college together, but she cannot be faithful. Her sin leads to depression and she has several accidents, but she finishes nursing school. She and Kip marry but her bulimia returns after her first baby is born. She goes to a clinic, overcomes bulimia and meets Christians in exercise class. She learns about Jesus, goes to Bible study and receives Christ. But she still takes anti-depressants for 14 years. After a crisis when she’s diagnoses with psychosis, she and Kip go to a seminar where she learns to trust in the Lord and she throws away her meds.

3008 Roger & Naomi Walkwitz – Part 2 Sep 27, 2026

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Roger and Naomi are a challenge to the existing church in Banaue that takes them to court. Roger wins. He and a native believer, George, translate the Gospel of John into Ifugao. The mission wants Roger to teach chemistry in Manila, but he resists, so they send the couple to Baguio. There they establish Bible fellowships for the mountain students. After 32 years they retire and go to Israel, enduring the Gulf War. They start a Messianic ministry. Then their oldest son and family die in a plane crash. Roger and Naomi are still in ministry.

3002 Becky Kelly Sep 27, 2026

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3002 Becky Kelly: Becky resents her step mom. She also resents the restrictions of diabetes and steals sweets, then money to buy sweets. A liar and thief, she becomes promiscuous and has a bad reputation in high school. Her parents send her to a mental health clinic where she meets a guy she eventually marries. But he is a homosexual who abuses her. The marriage is annulled, and Becky runs around, meeting John, an Irish con artist. They live together, adopt a baby boy because her pregnancies are difficult. But she has two more healthy sons. Seeking to baptize their “adopted” son, they go to church where Becky is saved. She takes care of John for 14 years after a stroke that brings him salvation.

3003 Charles Palmer Classic Sep 27, 2026

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Chuck joins the navy at 17, hears and rejects the gospel during boot training. Later he says “yes” to Jesus but not with his heart. He marries 15-year-old Nell when he’s 20. They party and have a son, Larry, but alcohol nearly drives them apart. When the navy sends him to Iceland, she wants a divorce. He persuades her to try again but the marriage founders. A sailor urges Chuck to come to Bible study and he eventually prays for salvation. Nell comes at Christmas but they fight, and he sequesters the boy. She goes back to Texas and he prays for two years. Finally, she returns, hears him preach and professes faith in Christ. The marriage is restored.

3004 Jimmy Rowe Sep 27, 2026

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Jimmy grows up without a dad and starts smoking pot at 12 even though his mother is a police officer and they go to church. He marries Patty although her dad opposes the match. Jimmy promises to straighten up at 30 but doesn’t. A drug dealer, he becomes addicted to Oxycontin, then crack cocaine. His addiction leads him to steal from his wife, his mother and daughter. He resists conviction several times. Finally, he steals his wife’s 401K check and disappears for a week. She finds him. At home he wrestles with the devil but finally surrenders to Christ. Now in Bible college and ministry.

3005 “Sophie” Classic Sep 27, 2026

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While she’s a child, Sophie’s sister, mother and brother all die, leading to her fear of death. To placate God she goes to church and prays often as a teenager. She meets Nick but is afraid to marry him until he converts to her church. When their daughter is born, Sophie becomes even more fearful. Even when they go out with friends to party, the fears haunt her. She hears a radio preacher and prays for salvation, then talks with a neighbor who has been praying for her. At first Nick is upset with the change in her, but after several accidents, he professes faith, too. No longer afraid of death, Sophie witnesses in the hospital

3006 Ken Edwards Classic Sep 27, 2026

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Beginning as a teenager, Ken Edwards traced a life of crime across the nation leaving a trail of stolen or counterfeit loot. He lived a style many yearned to imitate but for the reckoning which came in a Florida jail. His mother and grandmother had prayed for years – without seeming effect. But at last, from a source he had spurned, Edwards experienced the grace hundreds have found.

3007 Roger & Naomi Walkwitz – Part 1 Sep 27, 2026

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Roger is saved at 13 and studies chemistry, planning to teach in high school. Instead he’s recruited to teach at a Bible college where he meets Naomi. He’s drafted into the army where he works as a chemist, hears a Wycliffe call to teach the Bible in the Philippines and submits to God. He and Naomi apply to be missionaries. He’s accepted, she’s rejected. They marry anyway and both are approved. They go to Manila where their first son is born. The first part ends as they arrive in Banaue.

3009 “Eda” Sep 27, 2026

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“Eda” is the oldest of three sisters. Their grandmother secretly talks about God in a godless country, closed to the world. No one trusts anyone. Education is paramount to her family and she is obedient. Communism begins to fall when she is 14. Churches open and she hears an evangelist on TV and prays with him. Someone gives her a Bible and she reads voraciously. As a teenager working at a public radio station, she repels the advances of her boss. Civil war in Albania strengthens her faith. Then the Kosovo crisis comes and she sees the evil of mankind. God opens the door for her to run a Christian radio station in Albania.

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