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3179 Warren & Jenny Winter Pt 1 Sep 27, 2026

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Warren and Jennie Winter left the city of Chicago to live on a boat in China, where they encountered lepers and babies left by the roadside. Don’t miss the first of their two-part testimony, another true dramatization on UNSHACKLED!

2744 Jeff Watson Sep 27, 2026

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Jeff’s family is dysfunctional. Dad gone a lot and depressed when he’s home. Jeff is a peacemaker who likes to help others. When his best friend is killed in an accident, Jeff decides to join the Peace Corps. He spends two years in Korea, helping fight TB and leprosy. A leper with faith in Christ prompts Jeff to read the Bible. He helps a missionary with orphan children. When he comes home, he teaches middle school where he’s invited to Bible study and receives Christ. Now works for Christian ministry to the blind.

2745 Jim Bottorff Pt 1 Sep 27, 2026

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Jim grows up ashamed of his alcoholic father, yet he loves him and does well in college until his dad dies. Then guilt and depression set in and he becomes addicted to alcohol and anti-depressants. He manages to graduate, lands a good job and marries. But alcohol controls him and he loses one job after another, even one marriage after another. The first part ends as he is arrested for DUI’s and seeks rehab.

2746 Jim Bottorff Pt 2 Sep 27, 2026

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Jim continues to try treatment for his alcoholism, but fails. He loses jobs, lies, gambles and commits adultery. His second wife divorces him. He squanders his retirement cache, sells possessions, ends up living with Christian cousin and goes to church, talks with pastor and prays for salvation. Marriage and family are reconciled. Now in ministry.

2747 Kermit Hagerman Classic Pt 1 Sep 27, 2026

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Kermit never attends church growing up in South Chicago. His parents leave him and brother with Grandmother for several years. He steals and cuts school after parents split when he’s a teenager, and he does a year in bad boy’s school. He learns to drink with co-workers. Is drafted and sent to Vietnam where he works to be a good soldier. But back home, drinking controls him and leads to breakup with Mary, his true love. First part ends with his alienation.

2748 Kermit Hagerman Classic Pt 2 Sep 27, 2026

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Kermit’s hard drinking leads to his cousin’s death and leaves him plagued with guilt. He loses a good job and ends up on the streets where he shoots a man during a confrontation. A friend tells him about Jesus, Who will change his life. So Kermit searches for the rescue mission, comes to Pacific Garden Mission and gives his life to Christ. He and Mary are married, and he is still serving God at PGM.

2775 Vladimir Makarenko Pt 1 Sep 27, 2026

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Vladimir grows up in a Christian family in the Soviet Union. Churches are burned, Bibles banned and Believers persecuted. Atheism is enforced at school, and he is ridiculed and mocked. He learns to drink from his grandfather, learns about God from his grandmother and parents. But he joins in rebellion, vandalizing and drinking. He goes away to school at fifteen where a born-again cousin talks to him of God and takes him to underground church. The first part ends when police break up this meeting and he is arrested.

2777 Sherry Goodwin Classic Pt 1 Sep 27, 2026

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Sherry excels in school and is ambitious even after her marriage to Jerry at seventeen. Being a housewife bores her, so she goes to work against her husband’s wishes and is successful in the political arena. She serves many gods: money, power, friends, even “good works” and astrology as her marriage slides downhill. Her godly mother prays for her. An old friend and she work together, and the friend leads her to Christ. The first part ends when Sherry is diagnosed with MS.

2765 Christopher Boda Sep 27, 2026

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Christopher’s father is the headman of his Banjara village of Untouchable people. A missionary offers to take the children and educate them at a local mission. Christopher learns English. At fifteen he is injured playing soccer. His leg becomes gangrenous, and a Christian doctor presents the gospel and tells him only Jesus can save him. Christopher prays for salvation. When he is healed, he goes to his village to tell them about the Savior, is nearly killed by his father. He marries a girl who first gives her life to Christ. A missionary helps him go to Bible college and he now has a ministry to his Banjara people.

2662 Doris Barr Pt 2 Sep 27, 2026

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