BILLY SUNDAY

SALTY EVANGELIST
Courtesy of Christianity Today – CT

“Center fielder Billy Sunday made a three-base hit at Farwell Hall last night. There is no other way to express the success of his first appearance as an evangelist in Chicago.” So reported the local press about Sunday’s first public appearance as a preacher in the late 1880s.

ERIC LIDDELL

OLYMPIC CHAMPION FOR CHRIST
Courtesy of Peter Hong

While Liddell is best remembered, largely due to the film, as a gold medal winner in the 400-meter race in the 1924 Paris Olympics, his primary mission in life – from birth to death – was as a Christian missionary in China.