Christian Heroes: Then & Now Gift Set (1-5) Paperback – May 5, 2000

The description states that these are for children. I had never heard of these stories or the books. I was searching for information on traveling mission work when I came across these books. Once I started reading it was difficult to put them down. Truly inspiring. BTW. I’m 65

Great books giving insight into another time, another culture.

These are some of my favorite books. They are so easy to read and contain life changing stories. I have the whole set of Christian Heroes Then and Now and Heroes of History and I can’t recommend them high enough. I have given away multiple sets.

This, the first of the Christian Heroes gift sets, is my favorite. I can see why they did these first.I only knew of Hudson Taylor and Corrie Ten Boom by name, and I only vaguely knew the stories. These books filled them in quite well. For adults, of course, you'd probably read The Hiding Place, for Corrie Ten Boom (which I have not yet got to); but I as an adult learned a lot from this book.The other ones in this series I found fascinating. The biography of Nate Saint here in this series is, in my opinion, quite a bit more interesting and detailed than the corresponding biography of Jim Eliot later in the series; it actually explains their death together much better, with a lot more details on the aftermath. Nate Saint is a much more approachable character than Jim Eliot, as well, and my kids definitely enjoyed it more (but they like the Jim Eliot story too).The Gladys Aylward story pretty much blew my mind. I consider it a pretty severe defect in my Christian education that I had not heard this story. Wow. God chooses the most unlikely people.I found myself personally inspired by a number of these stories, even as I read them to the kids.

We love these so much!!!! They are well worth the money.

My kids are loving these books.

We received our books yesterday. My 10 year old son started reading the first book right away and he said he was "hooked". We had an amazing conversation about China. He asked me if he could ever go to a place like China to share the gospel. I explained to him the dangers of sharing his faith outside of the United States but he was steadfast that he didn't care if China was a Communist government, he said "I want to change that, Mom". He is an amazing child and I'm so glad that these books will just add to his heart for the Living God whom we serve! I wish books like this were required reading in the public school system. If all American children could only see how hundreds of thousands before them have shaped our world because of their faith in Jesus Christ. Wow! We love these books!

I loved the information provided by these books. Brings the Gospel story to life and encourages and inspires me to live gospel centric.