Thirteen-year-old Kyemap wants to accept the Christian teachings of Mr. Grubb, a missionary to the Lengua Indians of Paraguay during the 1890s, but he fears the reaction of the witch doctors.

In China in 1900, Chou Fu-lin, known as the Wolf Boy because of the scarred face he keeps covered with a mask, works for missionaries Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth, but when the Boxer Rebellion reaches Changte and they are forced to leave, he wonders if he has the courage to help them escape.

As the Burmese War begins in the 1820s, missionaries Adoniram and Ann Judson, the adoptive parents of May-lo and Len-lay, are accused of espionage.

Presents biographies of fifteen missionaries, evangelists, and other Christian heroes who worked courageously to share the Gospel with others.

In 1772 as his group of Christian Indians is being led to a new home in Ohio by Moravian missionary David Zeisberger, fourteen-year-old Joseph Shabosh is torn between the minister's teachings and the tempting by a Mohegan brave to follow more traditional Indian ways.