The stories of the Māori and Pākehā Christians in this book describe people who were both bicultural and transformative in their time. Ranging from 1814 to 2011, the book spans the first two hundred years of sowing and cultivating the seeds of the gospel in Aotearoa. By exploring the stories of others who had struggles and challenges, the book seeks to gain enlightenment and motivation for the issues being faced in our own time. This book was written as the world grappled with a global life-threatening virus. From this, the question arose ‘From where will our help come?’ The stories here give us examples of resilience and a focus on the common good of all people. The people of faith in this book reached out from their own communities to others, and they found ways to befriend people who were different from them. These people give encouragement to us to strive as they did and not give up.