ROBERT CLEAVER CHAPMAN (1803–1902) was an English pastor and evangelist. His zeal for Christ and compassion for people earned him the nickname “Apostle of Love.”

ROBERT CLEAVER CHAPMAN (1803–1902) was an English pastor and evangelist. His zeal for Christ and compassion for people earned him the nickname “Apostle of Love.”

Lisa Leidenfrost is a missionary wife who spent more than two decades raising her four children in Ivory Coast alongside her husband Csaba, a Wycliffe Bible translator for the Bakwé people. They now live in northern Idaho, where Csaba continues his translation work remotely and Lisa is involved in women’s ministry at their local church. This is Lisa’s third book on living and working with the Bakwé. Read the rest of their story in At the Edge of the Village and From the Village to the Ends of the Earth.

Heather Wilson Torosyan was known for her overflowing joy in the Lord and her love for the lost. Heather was born in 1950s Japan to Bessie, a Canadian missionary, and Jim, a U.S. naval officer who resigned his commission to enter full-time Christian work. Heather, too, pursued missions, serving in Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey before marrying Ararat Torosyan in Istanbul. God blessed them with three children and four grandchildren before Heather was called to her heavenly home to be with her beloved Lord and Savior in 2020.

Jim Wilson has been a pastor, counselor, and the director of Community Christian Ministries in Moscow, Idaho, for over forty years. Before that, he served as a naval officer for nine years and worked with Officers’ Christian Fellowship for another twelve. He is a father of four, grandfather of fifteen, and great‐grandfather of thirty-seven and counting.

Klaus Bockmuehl (1931-89) was born in Germany and converted to Christ in 1947. He served as professor of theology and ethics at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada, from 1977 until his death. He and his wife, Elisabeth, raised three children.

William Gurnall (1616–79) was born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, and received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cambridge University. From 1644 until his death, he served as rector of St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Lavenham, Suffolk.