Books with author Sam Wellman

For challenge and encouragement in your Christian life, read the life stories of the Heroes of the Faith. The novelized biographies of this series are inspiring and easy-to-read, ideal for Christians of any age or background. In Amy Carmichael, you’ll get to know the great missionary who rescued many girls of India from horrible abuses—and served nearly six decades without a furlough. Appropriate for readers from junior high through adult, helpful for believers of any background, these biographies encourage greater Christian commitment through the example of heroes like Amy Carmichael.

Born into slavery in Missouri near the end of the Civil War, baby George Carver was kidnapped by bushwhackers. Ransomed and freed by his owner he later traveled to Kansas at age 12. For the next 14 years he drifted the Kansas plains alone, but always curious, always inventive. A natural genius, he found his calling at Iowa State. Some thought he was the most promising horticulturist in the nation. He spurned prestige schools to teach at all black Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There his creative mind developed better ways to grow and use peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans and cotton. He significantly influenced agriculture in the deep south. His immense talents did not go unnoticed. His advice was sought by industrial genius Henry Ford and American presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Roosevelt as well as Senators and Congressmen. Carver died in 1943 after a lifetime of scientific and artistic achievement. Soon thereafter, Franklin Roosevelt honored Carver by designating the George Washington Carver National Monument in Missouri. It was the first national monument dedicated to an African-American and the first to honor anyone other than a president.

For challenge and encouragement in your Christian life, read the life stories of the Heroes of the Faith. The novelized biographies of this series are inspiring and easy-to-read, ideal for Christians of any age or background. In Corrie ten Boom, you’ll get to know the Dutch watchmaker whose powerful Christian faith led her to protect Jews during World War II—and carried her through the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp after her activities were discovered. Appropriate for readers from junior high through adult, helpful for believers of any background, these biographies encourage greater Christian commitment through the example of heroes like Corrie ten Boom.

Isaac McCoy [1784-1846] was a Baptist missionary to the American Indians. That is a nominal description of McCoy because he also aggressively pursued a state (or at least a sovereign territory) for Indians only. Although McCoy had personally discussed his ideas with titans like Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams there were myriad political interests that opposed his notion of an ‘Indian state’. He was even pulled into the rawest issue of the time: slavery. Isaac McCoy fought for an ‘Indian state’ until his death at age 62 in 1846.Isaac McCoy was not without controversy. He had a questionable role in a vigilante action against Mormons in Jackson County, Missouri, probably the largest vigilante action in the nation’s history. McCoy also allied himself with some hard businessmen in Jackson County because his large family was so poorly supported by his Board of Missions.

Born into slavery in Missouri near the end of the Civil War, baby George Carver was kidnapped by bushwhackers. Ransomed and freed by his owner he later traveled to Kansas at age 12. For the next 14 years he drifted the Kansas plains alone, but always curious, always inventive. A natural genius, he found his calling at Iowa State. Some thought he was the most promising horticulturist in the nation. He spurned prestige schools to teach at all black Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There his creative mind developed better ways to grow and use peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans and cotton. He significantly influenced agriculture in the deep south. His immense talents did not go unnoticed. His advice was sought by industrial genius Henry Ford and American presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Roosevelt as well as Senators and Congressmen. Carver died in 1943 after a lifetime of scientific and artistic achievement. Soon thereafter, Franklin Roosevelt honored Carver by designating the George Washington Carver National Monument in Missouri. It was the first national monument dedicated to an African-American and the first to honor anyone other than a president.

For challenge and encouragement in your Christian life, read the life stories of the Heroes of the Faith. The novelized biographies of this series are inspiring and easy-to-read, ideal for Christians of any age or background. In David Livingstone, you’ll get to know the Scottish explorer who carried the gospel to the heart of nineteenth-century Africa—and gained worldwide fame as the man who introduced Victoria Falls to the outside world. Appropriate for readers from junior high through adult, helpful for believers of any background, these biographies encourage greater Christian commitment through the example of heroes like David Livingstone.

For three years John Bunyan fought in England’s bloody civil war between Parliament and King Charles I. At 19 he quit soldiering. A pious wife took him to the Bible. By 32 Bunyan had become a literate, fiery nonconformist preacher. Bunyan was thrown into prison for 10 years. He was released, then imprisoned again. He did more than preach to other prisoners. Bunyan, the tinker, the fixer of things broken. made a violin out of tin, a flute from a chair leg. John Bunyan also produced in prison the greatest allegory ever written in the English language. Only the Bible has been printed more.“...an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.” C.S. Lewis“...if the ‘Pilgrim's Progress’ did not exist, [Bunyan’s ‘Holy War’] would be the best allegory that ever was written.” Thomas MacauleyPilgrim’s Progress first appeared in 1678. The quest for salvation is in such vivid imagery few readers ever forget Bunyan’s straight and narrow path to salvation. Learn about the man behind this miracle of human imagination!

For challenge and encouragement in your Christian life, read the life stories of the Heroes of the Faith. The novelized biographies of this series are inspiring and easy-to-read, ideal for Christians of any age or background. In Billy Graham, you’ll get to know the tireless American evangelist who has seen millions of people worldwide accept Christ through his preaching crusades—and countless more through his writings, films, and radio and television broadcasts. Appropriate for readers from junior high through adult, helpful for believers of any background, these biographies encourage greater Christian commitment through the example of heroes like Billy Graham.

Isaac McCoy [1784-1846] was a Baptist missionary to the American Indians. That is a nominal description of McCoy because he also aggressively pursued a state (or at least a sovereign territory) for Indians only. Although McCoy had personally discussed his ideas with titans like Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams there were myriad political interests that opposed his notion of an ‘Indian state’. He was even pulled into the rawest issue of the time: slavery. Isaac McCoy fought for an ‘Indian state’ until his death at age 62 in 1846.Isaac McCoy was not without controversy. He had a questionable role in a vigilante action against Mormons in Jackson County, Missouri, probably the largest vigilante action in the nation’s history. McCoy also allied himself with some hard businessmen in Jackson County because his large family was so poorly supported by his Board of Missions.

ALBANIAN SCHOOLGIRL to BLESSED TERESA OF CALCUTTAIn 1946 Sister Teresa at 36 left Loreto convent in Calcutta without a penny to minister to the ‘poorest of the poor’. This was the bloodiest time in the history of India: Hindus and Muslims killing each other. The tiny nun survived to found the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. For months ‘Mother’ Teresa waited in torment for her first novitiate. At her death 49 years later her sisters numbered 4000. They tended the neglected in over 120 countries. She also founded orders for brothers and lay people. Her army of many thousands never tried to convert the needy to her religion. Instead they were to ‘do something beautiful for God’. They helped the poor get good water, schooling, clothing, food and medical care. They were the only hope for abandoned babies, orphans, prostitutes, lepers, HIV victims, the battered, the hungry, the sick, the dying...Mother Teresa’s impact is incalculable. Honors mortified her but if one brought with it one penny for the poor how could she refuse? She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She won the American Presidential Freedom Medal in 1985. By a wide margin Americans voted her the most admired person of the 20th Century. She was beatified in 2003. Few doubt one more miracle will occur in her name, and she will become Saint Teresa of Calcutta.