Twelve-year-old Alastair, a son of Christian missionaries on the Philippine island of Palawan, finds a way for Joy Ridderhof to record the Gospels in the native language.

Jova, a seven-year-old Kru boy in Liberia and a captive slave of his people's enemy the Grebos, witnesses the dramatic conversion to Christianity of the Kru prince Kaboo and his subsequent disappearance; seven years later, in 1893, Jova sails to America to find Prince Kaboo and bring him back to rule his people.

In 1888, change arrives in a small village in Calabar, Nigeria in the form of a courageous missionary named Mary.

A young Quechua Indian learns firsthand the courage of committed Christians when Rómulo Sauñe, a missionary, turns the local people away from the hate and terror of the Shining Path, a guerrilla group.

Imatu had seen white people in her village in West Africa, but only when they came to sell liquor, guns, and slave chains. One day, a white woman, Mary Slessor came to the village to set up a school and teach them about a God who loves them, who wouldn't demand cruel rituals like Imatu's tribal religion. But when Imatu's mother is taken prisoner and condemned to drink the deadly poison bean, would Mary Slessor's respect in the village prove enough...

In 1843, twelve-year-old Perrin joins his aunt and uncle, well-known missionaries Dr. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, in the Oregon Territory where they live with the Nez Perce and Cayuse Indians.

A Muslim boy, in Morocco, risks his parent's wrath when he accepts pictures of Jesus from a Christian missionary named Maude Cary.