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3077 Robert Saler – Part 1 Sep 27, 2026

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While shoe-shining in Chicago at age 7, Robert stops at a tent revival and is saved. He takes his dad to PGM but his dad continues drinking. A brick-layer, he falls from a seven-story building and is killed, leaving Robert’s mother with 5 children. Robert works to help the family but continues taking Bible classes and commits to being a missionary to India. He’s drafted after World War II ends, serves in Korea where the first part ends when he is shot in the leg and captured.

3078 Robert Saler – Part 2 Sep 27, 2026

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Robert and three buddies escape a North Korean prison camp. After his discharge Robert runs a catering business that helps when he opens a Christian rest home. He takes in his sister’s children, witnesses to his guests and fends off false accusations of misconduct in the rest homes. The first part ends as he is helping missionaries in India and bringing a couple from India to help in his rest homes.

3062 Lawrence Durfee Classic Sep 27, 2026

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Raised without God or the Bible or church, Lawrence quits school at 15 to work and become rich. He marries Wilma at 24. Violent and bitter, he loses his job, borrows money from his dad to start his own auto shop. He has amassed nearly $50,000 when an oil-sparked explosion sets him on fire at work, and he nearly dies. In a coma he has a vision of hell and cries out to God to save him. All his money is spent on doctor and hospital bills, but he has peace and goes into ministry distributing Bibles.

3059 John Denson – Part 1 Sep 27, 2026

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John’s father is paralyzed from a job injury when John is 6, and John grows up without a father in the home. A wild child, his mother takes him along as she cleans the homes of Jews, and he learns Bible stories. They also go to church, but John rejects Christ. He uses drugs, drops out of high school to join the army and marries Carla. Children are born, but he can’t quit drugs; he goes to prison again and she waits for him. He works with Jewish gangsters and his wife and he separate. The first part ends as John’s mother dies of cancer and he is bereft.

3060 John Denson – Part 2 Sep 27, 2026

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John meets Donna and they live together, moving often because of the contracts out on his life. Then his partner is shot and killed, and John is arrested. As a third-time offender, he faces a long sentence and tries to escape. He’s caught and put in solitary where he learns of his brother’s death from leukemia. In prison he reads the Bible and hears an evangelist. One night he prays and is saved. He asks Donna to get a pastor to help him get paroled. Instead, Donna gets saved. Miraculously, he is released long enough for them to marry. The first part ends as he goes back to prison.

3049 Thomas Graumann Part 1 Sep 27, 2026

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A Jew, born in Czechoslovakia, Tom’s parents put him on the train to England to escape Hitler’s persecution. He hears the gospel and trusts Christ at age 9. His family dies during the war. He is called to missions at age 16, goes to nurses training and then Bible college in Glasgow. The first part ends as he and his foster “Uncle Jimmie” pray together.

3042 Holland Oates Classic Sep 27, 2026

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Holland hears the gospel at a mission but his wife doesn’t want to pursue God’s nudging. Holland becomes a drunkard; but when their baby daughter falls ill, he wants to pray. The baby dies, and a drunken Holland almost knocks over her casket. Mortified, he prays, asking God to save him. He quit drinking but smokes cigars until he stops by PGM and a counselor prays with him. Holland begins preaching at PGM. When his son dies in the war, Holland becomes an itinerant preacher.

3043 Marshall Brooks Sep 27, 2026

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Marshall goes to church growing up but stops when he’s 18. He sneaks alcohol with friends. He marries Becky, tries college for a year then quits to run a motorcycle shop. Becky hates the drinking and drugs. When he buys a bar, she keeps the books and is there the night two drunker patrons have a shootout. No one dies, but Marshall is sick of his lifestyle. He talks with a friend who is saved and who ultimately leads him to Christ. Marshall becomes a preacher.

3114 John Wagner Classic Sep 27, 2026

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John’s mother dies and his mean stepmother beats him so he runs away at nine, linking up with Steve, a hobo who teaches him to drink. At thirteen John goes it alone till age 17 when loneliness drives him to his dad, an alcoholic who rejects him. John spends 28 years on Skid Row in Chicago, till he comes to Pacific Garden Mission where he’s saved.

3115 Ray Comfort Part 1 Sep 27, 2026

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Ray’s mother is Jewish, his father a Gentile. Ray is ADHD and discovers surfing when he’s 13. He lives for the sport. After graduation he works in a bank where he meets Sue and they marry. He has everything; but death awakens him to the futility of life. A surfer friend leads him to Christ, and Ray enthusiastically makes converts of his mother and buddies. Zeal without knowledge. The first part ends as one of his “converts” dies from a drug overdose and Ray vows to help others.

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