“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” Isaiah 52:7
A MAN NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK HIS MIND

The dynamic, forty-year old preacher who stood before the large crowd was none other then famous evangelist, Dwight L. Moody. Moody knew what he was talking about. From the time he gave his life over to Christ in the back room of a shoe shop, Dwight was intent on telling people about his Savior. Whether it was a lawyer on a train, a child in the slums or a crowd of thousands, Dwight would share with anyone about the love of Christ.
Something he never would have known, if someone hadn’t taken the time to explain it to him when he was a young man.
COUNTRY BOY TO CITY BOY

DIVINE ENCOUNTER AT A SHOE STORE
“I found Moody in the back part of the building wrapping up shoes,” Kimball related, years later. “I went up to him at once, and putting my hand on his shoulder, I made what I afterward thought was a very weak plea for Christ. I don’t know just what words I used, nor could Mr. Moody tell. I simply told him of Christ’s love for him and the love Christ wanted in return.”
Right there in that shoe store Dwight Lyman Moody gave his life to Jesus. He knew right away that something had changed in his heart.
At the time he couldn’t tell you the doctrines of Christianity or what, exactly, Christ had saved him from, but he was a young man on fire and with each passing decade that flame burned stronger and brighter.
A PURPOSE BIGGER THAN A BANK ACCOUNT
He loved making money (sending a portion to his mother and siblings) but he also loved the children who were dirty, uneducated and running the streets of Chicago. Out of necessity he started his own mission in an abandoned freight car, where the only way to hold their attention was to tell them Bible stories. The mission grew from thirty to a hundred, then two hundred, then six hundred and then a thousand children and teenagers.
They outgrew several buildings that were donated to them over a number of years.

A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE

PICTURE OF CHICAGO IN THE 1800’S
WINNING A WAR FOR SOULS
“Let God have your life. He can do more with it than you can.”
“If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.”
