1. The year was 1838, and we remember Gideon Blackburn. The reading is from Luci Shaw, “The Foolishness of God.”
  2. The year was 1433, and we remember Pavel Cravar. The reading is from Rainer Maria Rilke, "Death."
  3. The year was 1724, and we remember Alexander Natalis. The reading is an 18th-century Welsh hymn by William Williams.
  4. The year was 1384, and we remember Geert Groote. The reading is from John Walton, "God, the Port of Peace."
  5. The year was 1886, and we remember the formation of the Church of God. The reading is a brief excerpt from C.S. Lewis' "The Dawn Treader."
  6. The year was 849, and we remember Walafrid Strabo. The reading is the 9th-century hymn, “Dawn Reddens with Light.”
  7. The year was 1957, and we remember Alice Stebbins Wells. The reading is from Gregory Boyle’s “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion.”
  8. The year was 1794, and we remember Jean-Henri Merle D'Augbine. The reading is a maxim from Swiss theologian, Karl Barth.
  9. The year was 1195, and we remember Anthony of Padua. The reading is from Richard Trench, "God Our Refuge."
  10. The year was 1941, and we remember Maximillian Kolbe. The reading is two stanzas from George Herbert's "The Sacrifice."
  11. The year was 1836, and we remember St. Nicholas of Japan. The reading is a selection from Kazoh Kitamori, "Theology of the Pain of God."
  12. The year was 1859, and we remember missionary Ashbel Green Simonton. The reading is a poem from Sir Walter Raleigh.