UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas

Jacob is arrested during Sudan’s civil war and falsely accused of sedition. He spends four months in prison, then his aunt comes from Saudi Arabia and rescues him. She takes him from Saudi Arabia where he could be executed for apostasy and smuggling Bibles into the kingdom. He violates the Ramadan fast, admits he is a Christian and then goes on the run from authorities. Part 2 ends as he escapes t...

Almaz is raised in a prosperous Ethiopian family. From her mother she learns to help others, sacrificing time and money for the poor. The country falls to Communism, and Almaz pursues a career in medicine by going to Russia to study. She hates communism, prays for God’s guidance. Jacob writes her from Sweden, proposing marriage. She asks for a sign: to get her lost passport, which God does; so she...

“Clara” is raised in a Christian family where the parents pray and read Scripture. She rebels against a repressive church, goes to nursing school to get away from home. She works far from home in a psychiatric unit, absorbing godless philosophy. Drinking in bars, she ends up living with a man she eventually marries. They adopt children; Clara adopts alcohol and becomes addicted. She has blackouts,...

Saji grows up in a nominal Christian home with a drunken, abusive father and a mother with mental problems. Anger and fighting seem to be the family’s chief inheritance. His sister is demon possessed at fourteen. Saji persists in getting his education, goes to live with uncle where a teacher talks about Christ. Then he rents a room near the college just prior to his graduation and two evangelists...

Saji’s father beats him bloody for receiving Christ then kicks him out of the home. Saji returns to college where his Christian brothers help him. He prospers in his work, rents a house and brings his siblings to take care of them, softening his father’s heart. All profess faith in Christ. Saji marries Moni, goes to the U.S., planning to get rich. God puts India on his heart, he goes to seminary,...

Phil’s parents divorce when he is nine. His mother rents a home in the country for the four boys. Life is tough and Phil runs away several times. A snowstorm collapses the roof, destroying their piano and his hopes for a musical career. His mother becomes a housemother to a fraternity, where Phil resumes piano lessons. When his mother insists he live with his father, Phil rebels, rents a room and...

Philip moves into a new rooming house and makes friends with Jack, another atheist. Phil goes out to dinner and is pressured into drinking whiskey for the first and last time. Because he and Jack return to the rooming house late, they are moved into a room with two Christians, considered fanatics. Humorous attempts to discourage the believers fail, and Phil comes under conviction as the two pray o...

Although her family drinks too much and doesn’t go to church, Amy has a grandmother whose talk of God’s judgment frightens her. At 17 she is diagnosed with lupus, which devastates her body in many ways. Her grandmother encourages her to thank God for everything, and Amy reads the Bible and is saved. Her sister provides humor and compassion, helping Amy persevere. Amy meets and marries a man when s...

Kathy has a hunger for God as a child but cannot keep the rules and gives up. Goes to public high school and is exposed to immorality. Begins readings in eastern religion and witchcraft but fear leads her to discard such books. Goes to college, immerses herself in the party life, gets bored with drunks. Starts reading the Bible, doesn’t understand. An old friend tells her to read the Gospel of Joh...

Sam grows up in a very religious atmosphere at home, following his religion faithfully yet unable to control his lustful thoughts. He begins piano lessons at age nine, has talent and dedication, wins competitions and a place at the Julliard School of Music. There he discontinues going to synagogue but still prays at night. Part 1 ends when Sam meets and is confronted with the claims of three born-...

Sam is a third year piano student at Julliard when Christians challenge him to read the New Testament and see that Jesus is the Messiah. Sam reads and is astonished at the claims of Christ. He reads the whole New Testament, ignoring piano practice for a week, and prays to receive Christ. His parents disown him. He marries Deborah, competes in several international piano competitions and is acclaim...

Christopher’s father is the headman of his Banjara village of Untouchable people. A missionary offers to take the children and educate them at a local mission. Christopher learns English. At fifteen he is injured playing soccer. His leg becomes gangrenous, and a Christian doctor presents the gospel and tells him only Jesus can save him. Christopher prays for salvation. When he is healed, he goes t...

Ken becomes a Mama’s boy while his brother becomes a favorite of his pop. He goes to church with his mother but rejects the church in high school to hang out in pool rooms. He runs with a con-man, drives drunk and has close calls. Becomes disillusioned with life after an abortive trip to California, tries therapy but efforts to reform himself fail. Pretending to be Christians, he and a friend go t...

Randy grows up in a Christian family, taught to work hard and finish whatever he starts. His dad becomes a pastor when Randy is twelve. Randy is working his way through Bible college, goes forward to gain assurance of salvation, and marries Tina, also a student. After three children are born, he drops out to pay debts, opens a painting business. He falls from a scaffold and breaks his neck. The fi...

Randy suffers many setbacks but finally leaves the hospital for a rehab center. After one day there he is rushed back to the hospital where, after two weeks of tests, he despairs of getting well and decides to starve himself. A Christian friend confronts him, and Randy decides to try again. He sees many others suffering and witnesses to one disfigured man. After four months, he finally goes home....

Jesse is a moonshiner, barely able to survive as a hardscrabble farmer in West Virginia. Government agents raid his farm but cannot find his still. He is arrested but the sheriff lets him go. He moves his family to Ohio but cannot find work because of the Depression, so he moves to a farm intending to make moonshine again. A neighbor tries to help but Jesse rebuffs him. The neighbor prays, then th...

When the church comes to plant his corn, bringing a meal and testimonies, Jesse still won’t go to church until fall revival when seven different farmers come to invite them to church. Finally, he and his wife go and both get saved. Owen, the son and narrator, prays for salvation two weeks later and eventually the whole family receives Christ. Owen becomes a missionary evangelist traveling the worl...

John grows up feeling ashamed of his controlling mother, who humiliates him. His father goes along with her to avoid fights. John discovers a love for basketball but is kicked off the court by a bully. He practices secretly, becomes a star and finds acceptance. But in college he does drugs and drinks. After graduation, he dates a depressed girl who ultimately shares the gospel. John prays to recei...

Viorel is born into a poor family in Romania, where his drunken father abuses his mother and beats the children. The parents separate, and Viorel begins to run with bad boys as a teenager, drinking, stealing and lying. He meets Mihaela, who refuses to date him. After a drunken fight with his father, he runs away to work on farms, but returns home after a few months. Mihaela marries him, but his dr...

Kevin grows up hearing about Jesus in church and from his grandfather. He goes forward and is baptized twice; but he doesn’t know the Savior. His family quits going to church when Kevin is twelve, and he smokes pot and drinks. His feelings of failure lead him to drink and fight constantly. He wrecks his truck and fears hell. He meets Michelle who leads him back to church where he truly gives his l...

Susan’s baby brother is born with Down Syndrome, and the family quits going to church. Hungry for God, she falls prey to a family who practice Vedanta, believe in reincarnation and many paths to God. At college she mocks an evangelist on campus. She breaks her engagement to move to Ohio where she believes her destiny lies. There she teaches school, and a co-worker leads her to Christ.

Vladimir grows up in a Christian family in the Soviet Union. Churches are burned, Bibles banned and Believers persecuted. Atheism is enforced at school, and he is ridiculed and mocked. He learns to drink from his grandfather, learns about God from his grandmother and parents. But he joins in rebellion, vandalizing and drinking. He goes away to school at fifteen where a born-again cousin talks to h...

Volodya is arrested and taken for interrogation, where he realizes God must exist if they resist Him so much. He defiantly says he will teach the Bible. Then he goes back to the church and receives Christ. Persecution begins at school and continues in the army where he is threatened and even beaten for his faith. Still serving Christ as missionary and church planter in Russia.

Sherry excels in school and is ambitious even after her marriage to Jerry at seventeen. Being a housewife bores her, so she goes to work against her husband’s wishes and is successful in the political arena. She serves many gods: money, power, friends, even “good works” and astrology as her marriage slides downhill. Her godly mother prays for her. An old friend and she work together, and the frien...

Sherry is invited to speak at an International Students’ Fellowship Home in Minnesota. The home has 22 students, most from Africa. She gives her testimony at dinner, and a young man named Binyam comes to her room where she leads him to Christ. The students barely have enough to eat, so Sherry buys groceries and prepares dinner. After she speaks on Sunday, Binyam shares his testimony of escaping fr...