Stand–up "redneck" comedian and game–show host Jeff Foxworthy has been a Jesus follower since age 7, when he proved to his mama he was ready to go to the altar. Now host of "The American Bible Challenge," he also serves every week at the Atlanta Mission downtown.

Jeff Taylor had it all growing up. Then he got hooked on painkillers after a football injury. Still, he landed a high–powered job on Wall Street, where cocaine was the designer drug. Eventually, he lost it all and found himself doing dishes in a Salvation Army rehab center.

In her early 30s, Marcia Larson works in the heart of Midtown at Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal. Unlike many of her peers, she's a Christian—and the youngest member of the Salvation Army's National Advisory Board.

When Ryan Read first heard Jesus' parable of the four soils, he was in prison. He knew what kind of soil he was. But many years later, he's leading a "Good Soil Initiative" in Racine, Wis.