January 7, 1955 – April 2, 2019

Singer/Songwriter, Musician
From San Diego, California
Served in Los Angeles and Nashville
Affiliation: Protestant

"And it's said love's never enough Where a prophet in rags gives hope to a fearful world No injustice, no heart of darkness Will keep this voice from being heard He was a man of no reputation And by the wise, considered a fool When He spoke about faith and forgiveness In a time when the strongest arms ruled But this man of no reputation Loves us all with relentless affection And He loves all those poor in spirit, come as you are To the man of no reputation"

October 21, 1953 - July 28, 1982
Musician and founder of Last Days Ministries
From Sheepshead Bay, New York
Served in Garden Valley, Texas
Affiliation: Vineyard Christian Fellowship
Death: Plane crash with two of his children
"My main ambition in life is to be on the devil's most wanted list."

April 8, 1947 - February 24, 2008
Musician and Pioneer of modern Christian music
From Corpus Christi, Texas
Served in Los Angeles, California
Affiliation: Christian
"I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion."

April 10, 1953 - December 2, 1980
Missionary to El Salvador volunteering to feed the poor during the country's civil war
From Westport, Connecticut
Served in El Salvador
Affiliation: Catholic
Death: Raped and murdered by a military death squad
"I don’t know how the poor survive. People in our positions really have to die to ourselves and our wealth to gain the spirituality of the poor and oppressed."

February 21, 1944 - February 21, 2015
Parish Pastor and notably influential to the band U2 (from the 1970s until his death)
From Ireland
Served in Dublin, Ireland
Affiliation: Christian
"What if God is even greater than we think? We can have God neatly wrapped up in our heads, and then all of a sudden there’s a little shaft of light and we see things as we’ve never seen them before. Those are wonderful refreshing God moments."

February 25, 1934 - November 17, 1997
Founder of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship
From Kirksville, Missouri
Served in Anaheim, California
Affiliation: Vineyard Movement
"Our passion is to imitate the ministry of Jesus in the power of the Spirit. This requires we must follow Jesus out of baptismal waters, through our personal deserts, and into the harvest. We want to take the ammunition of the balanced evangelical theology with the fire power of Pentecostal practice, loading & readying the best of both worlds to hit the target of making & nurturing disciples…"

April 27, 1934 - April 12, 2013 
Evangelist and Author
From New York City
Served in many settings as a traveling preacher
Affiliation: Evangelical
"The temptation of the age is to look good without being good."

Aug. 11, 1933 - May 15, 2007
Founder of Liberty University
From Lynchburg, Virginia
Served in Lynchburg, Virginia
Affiliation: Baptist
"We can only change the world if we have a heart for the world and deliver the message for the world. We can only change the world if we evangelize the world."

November 6, 1932 - October 22, 2018
Pastor, Author, Professor
From Stanwood, WA
Served in Bel Air, Maryland and Vancouver, British Columbia
Affiliation: Presbyterian
"It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement."

February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003
Singer, Songwriter and Author
From Kingsland, Arkansas

Served in Nashville, Tennessee

Affiliation: Christian

"I don't have Paul's calling - I'm not out there being all things to all men to win them for Christ - but sometimes I can be a signpost. Sometimes I can sow a seed. And post-hole diggers and seed sowers are mighty important in the building of the Kingdom."

October 8, 1927 - January 8, 1956
Missionary
From Portland, Oregon
Served in Curaray River, Ecuador
Affiliation: Plymouth Brethern
Death: One of five missionaries killed attempting to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

September 4, 1926 - December 2, 2002
Philosopher and Priest
From Vienna, Austria
Served in United States, Mexico, and Germany
Affiliation: Catholic
"The machine-like behaviour of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the long run, becomes intolerable. Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed."

June 18, 1926 - November 13, 2010
Astronomer who determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe
From Iowa City, Iowa
Served in Pasadena, California
Affiliation: Christian
"We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural."

March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964
Author
From Savannah, Georgia
Served in Milledgeville, Georgia
Affiliation: Catholic
"What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. It is much harder to believe than not to believe. If you fell you can't believe, you must at least do this: keep an open mind. Keep it open toward faith, keep wanting it, keep asking for it, and leave the rest to God."

April 27, 1921 - July 27, 2011
Pastor, Theologian and Author
From London, England
Served in London, England
Affiliation: Anglican
"We should not ask, 'What is wrong with the world?' for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather, we should ask, 'What has happened to the salt and light?'"

March 21, 1921 - September 8, 2014
Founding Owner of Chick-Fil-A Restaurants
From Atlanta, Georgia
Served in Atlanta, Georgia
Affiliation: Baptist
"If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others."

August 30, 1920 - November 27, 2014
Author
From Oxford, England
Served in Oxford, England
Affiliation: Anglican
"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."

May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005
Bishop of Rome
From Wadowice, Poland
Served in Vatican City, Italy
Affiliation: Catholic (Roman Rite)
"Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God. Jesus Christ is "the only Son from the Father…full of grace and truth."

June 6, 1920 - June 14, 2007
Author, Poet, and Wife of Billy Graham
From Jiangsu, China
Served in Montreat, North Carolina
Affiliation: Presbyterian
"Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed."

"Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart."

November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018
Evangelist
From North Carolina
Served around the world
Affiliation: Baptist
"During all my years as an evangelist, my message has always been the Gospel of Christ. It is not a Western religion, nor is it a message of one culture or political system. … It is a message of life and hope for all the world."

December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008
Writer and Historian
From Kislovodsk, Russian
Served in Germany and Russia
Affiliation: Russian Orthodox
"This is certainly true. Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life. We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."

August 16, 1917 - May 31, 1995
Pastor or Narkis Street Congregation and Co-founder of Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research
From Norman, Oklahoma
Served in Jerusalem, Israel
Affiliation: Protestant
"The significance of the Gospels and the variety of current opinion regarding them make it incumbent on both the ordinary reader and the dedicated scholar to acquire as much knowledge as possible if he or she wishes to form an accurate portrait of Jesus and, indeed, the very origins of the Christian movement."

January 26, 1917 - July 2, 2014
Olympic Athlete and War Hero
From Olean, New York
Served in Los Angeles, California
Affiliation:Presbyterian
"... true to His promise, He came into my heart and my life. The moment was more than remarkable; it was the most realistic experience I'd ever had."

May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990
Writer
From Birmingham, Alabama
Served in Covington, Louisiana
Affiliation: Catholic
"You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."

January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968
Trappist Monk and Writer
From Prades, France
Served in the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky
Affiliation: Catholic (Franciscan)
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."