Partnering during a mission in Brazil, outspoken Elder McLeod and Elder Passos, who joined the church after his mother's death, find their faith tested by two potential converts, the Latin Football Championships, and the imminent war in Iraq.

In 1843, twelve-year-old Perrin joins his aunt and uncle, well-known missionaries Dr. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, in the Oregon Territory where they live with the Nez Perce and Cayuse Indians.

In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin - an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women's College - decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is mistaken. In the aftermath of the invasion, the school becomes a refugee camp for more than ten thousand homeless women and children, and Vautrin must struggle...

Tells the story of Joseph Shabosh and David Heckstein who went with the Moravian Indians and missionary David Zeisberger when they were expelled from Pennsylvania by white settlers.