A fictionalized account of how Spokane Garry, a Spokane Indian chief of the nineteenth-century, became a Christian and led many of his people to Christianity.

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.

Thirteen-year-old Hamilton Jones seeks revenge against the former captain of the ship on which his mother had been taken from Africa to slavery in the Colonies.

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.

After coming to Wittenberg to seek an education, Karl Schumacher becomes a student of Dr. Martin Luther and, when the latter is declared a heretic, Karl accompanies him when he travels to Worms to defend his views.

Gilbert Hamilton is left alone on the frontier when his father is killed and his mother is kidnapped by Sauk Indians during the War of 1812. Haunted by memories of his mother, Gil attends a camp meeting led by Peter Cartwright, a Methodist circuit-rider evangelist. Cartwright allows the boy to move with his family to Illinois, where Gil can begin the search for his mother.

While searching for his younger brother who has been "sold" to be trained as a chimney sweep in eighteenth-century London, thirteen-year-old Ned meets the itinerant preacher John Wesley whose message changes the lives of his entire family.

In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1543, after his mother is arrested as a heretic, fifteen-year-old Adriaen Wens flees with the Anabaptist preacher Menno Simons and must decide whether to turn Simons in to save his mother from death.

While traveling in the south of India, fourteen-year-old John and his mother encounter the Irish missionary Amy Carmichael and find themselves drawn into helping the work of the Dohnavur Fellowship.