While I grew up hearing about The Salvation Army’s Self-Denial Campaign, it wasn’t until 2016, when I first came to serve in Papua New Guinea (PNG), that I saw it lived out in action. One Sunday, as our corps officer introduced the campaign, he set a fundraising target, calling each of us to give up two weeks’ salary toward meeting this goal. My

Brian Bird, co-creator and executive producer of the top-rated Hallmark Channel series When Calls the Heart, has written and/or produced nearly three dozen films, including The Heart of Man and The Case for Christ, and close to 400 episodes of television, working on shows such as When Hope Calls, Step-by-Step and Evening Shade. He’s currently developing five new feature films. He also worked on Touched by an Angel.