Desafío para Valientes: La Vida de Loren Cunningham

Christian Heroes: Then & Now #24

by Janet Benge, Geoff Benge

Historias verídicas y conmovedoras de hombres y mujeres que respondieron al llamado de Dios

¿Una acaudalada muchacha irlandesa rescata niños en India?
¿Una criada predica el evangelio en China?
¿Un piloto estadounidense sirve a misioneros en Ecuador?

Héroes cristianos de ayer y de hoy relata las emocionantes y enternecedoras historias de hombres y mujeres comunes cuya confianza en Dios realizó hazañas extraordinarias para su Reino y para su Gloria.

Sin aviso previo, la visión de un enorme mapamundi apareció en su mente. Loren parpadeó, pero el mapa seguía allí. En breves instantes, el mapa entero estuvo cubierto de olas que bañaban todas las costas. De pronto, las olas se transformaron en caras de jóvenes que acudían a todos los rincones del mundo y recorrían toda nación. ¿Había tenido Loren una visión del futuro? En ese caso, ¿qué parte le tocaba cumplir a él?

Desde que pequeño soñara con escribir "Dios es amor" en la luna para que toda las gentes del mundo pudieran leerlo, Loren Cunningham ha dedicado su vida a evangelizar el mundo entero con las Buenas Nuevas de Jesucristo y ministrado en todas las naciones de la tierra.

Loren creyó firmemente que nada es imposible para Dios. Su visión de oleadas de jóvenes es hoy una realidad en Juventud con una Misión, con el envío sin precedentes de jóvenes es hoy una realidad en Juventud con una Misión, con el envío sin precedentes de jóvenes al servicio misionero. En la actualidad, la misión que él fundó prepara a muchos miles de jóvenes y adultos que colaboran en todo el planeta.

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, History, Christian, Audiobook, Religion, Childrens

203 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Janet and Geoff Benge are a husband and wife writing team with twenty years of writing experience. They are best known for the books in the two series Christian Heroes: Then & Now series and Heroes of History. Janet is a former elementary school teacher. Geoff holds a degree in history. Together they have a passion to make history come alive for a new generation. Originally from New Zealand, the Benges make their home in the Orlando, Florida, area.

Reviews

[Daniel Ray]

Loren Cunningham, after experiencing a vision, developed a new missionary program called Youth With A Mission (YWAN) in the 1960s. He was the first to take groups of youths with him into the world to spread the Christian story. Not an exciting story, but a story worth telling. Cunningham was a very bright young man aged 24 when he started this, and he turned down lucrative job offers to fulfill this calling.

[Sarah]

This book was awesome! I am so blessed to have been able to meet Mr. Cunningham recently, reading his story was great!

[Camilla]

Hadde lese omtrent alt som står i denne boka før. Mykje av det samme som står i Loren Cunningham si eiga bok "Er det virkelig deg, Gud?", berre at det her var litt forkorta.

[Kaitlyn Rinehart]

An encouraging and convicting book. This is a reminder to take more opportunities to share the gospel

[Abbey Phipps]

I truly enjoyed this book. Loren's mom was my favorite character - what a powerful woman of God! And Loren's story of developing YWAM into what it is today and taking the Great Commission to heart is inspiring.
My only complaint is this: I know this book is written for a younger audience, and the authors want to make it a positive story, but there had to be bad things that happened along the way. Even when a negative experience was mentioned, it felt like it was rushed through to get back to all the good and wonderful things. It would just be a more well-rounded story if we saw the bad along with the good.

[Lisa]

I really enjoyed and appreciated hearing about how YWAM started. There are a lot of amazing, rather miraculous stories in the book. What a vision, Loren C. had. He just kept going until his 90s, more visions, more base camps. And to think these books that I LOVE are from YWAM publishing.

Loren C. was a man of faith and prayer. The book could be a case study of walking by faith, financially generosity. He came from a solid Christian family. Just very encouraging to see there were/are maybe families like this!

[Ariel Paiement]

Coming from a theological background that does not believe tongues and prophecy still happen today, this definitely shifted my opinion on that because Cunningham experienced prophecy, at least, and revelation through dreams countless times in the Biblical way of the early church. The story left a deep impression and was touching as well as an encouragement towards a deeper faith in Christ that acts more boldly on the beliefs I hold as a Christian.

[Jon Burd]

Certainly one of my favorite Benge books.

You get a different side of history from each of theirs. Sometimes it feels like they missed incredibly important parts of a story. Other times it feels absolutely superb. This one certainly tells the overview and avoids all the details of "Is that really you God?"

The whole book is filled with astounding miracles of God and wisdom that I think is quite worthwhile reading. Certainly a biography to learn from.

[Laurie Hetherington]

Written for a teen audience yet insightful for every age.

I am challenged to do more as I read about the life of LC and the history of YWAM. Wish I had known about this in my teen years. I was ready to sign up and go serve by the time I finished the book.

[Pamela]

Loren Cunningham was the man who started YWAM!

[Keri]

Interesting read about the founder of YWAM. Loren Cunningham lives by faith and has seen God’s work all over the world.

[Bella Rowell]

A very interesting missionary story that the whole family loved.

[Beth]

Loved it. He was on a mission his entire life!

[Joel]

Una vida dedicada a Dios. La historia del fundador de JUCUM

[Kim]

A man with an amazing faith in God, & willingness to share the gospel with the world.

[Suzanne Lorraine Kunz Williams]

Inspiring what this man does to spread the gospel of Christ around the world.

[James]

This book discusses the life of Loren Cunningham, the founder of the Young With A Mission (YWAM).

The audiobook was read by Tim Gregory.

[라벤더 꽃 ;)]

God is real!!

[Lindsey]

5* Audio

[Sydney]

Born 1935 in California to a faith-filled pastor and his prayer warrior wife. Started Youth with a Mission (YWAM). Married and had 2 children. Died 2023 in Hawaii.

[Elliott Martin]

Loren Cunningham started YWAM and multiple schools of evangelism around the world. Raised by an AoG family, he had much initiative and courage, but his story also has a lot of female preachers, listening for God outside the Bible, and decision-making by dreams (in one case in the book, his mom rejects what someone else claims God told them in a dream only to believe the opposite because she had a dream).

[Caleb M]

Great story of a worldwide mission for the Lord.

[Leigh Black]

I loved it!!!

I am determined to read every single book in this series, and so far, this one is one of my top favs!! Great for anyone 10 and up who either wants to read about amazing adventures, or someone interested in YWAM or missions work in general. If you're not sure, get the sample. I did, and it got me hooked!! :) Wonderful book!!

[Laura]

For the first 3/4 of the book I wondered if I was reading Is That Really You, God? But it was still a good read and if I ever meet Mr. Cunningham I'll surely know lots of his story!

[Debra]

We really liked this one. This is about the founder of YWAM ministries, and it was very inspirational. My son is now looking into possibly joining the YWAM team.

[Jeffrey Bush]

Entire series is motivational