An Amazing Fact: During the first 100 years after Columbus discovered America, the ambitious Conquistadors, which means "conquerors," brought with them to the New World something besides horses and gun powder. As they marched across America in a quest for gold, land, and fame, they left behind a new language - Spanish. Today in the Americas and Europe, 402 million people speak Spanish as their native tongue. The United Nations now estimates that by the year 2040, the world's Spanish-speaking population will increase a whopping 103 percent!

They were sometimes ruthless in their relentless quest for gold, conquering ancient empires for their king along the way. But no one would question that the Conquistadors were fearless explorers who transformed an entire hemisphere.

And now we have an amazing, new, and simple idea that will help us mobilize a young army of compassionate Conquistadors for Christ that can reach millions of new people with the gold of the gospel!

An Amazing Fact: Light bulbs could soon be replaced by a new light source - PAINT! An accidental discovery by students at Vanderbilt University created a light-producing paint. Students were trying to make quantum dots, which are microscopic crystals generally only a few nanometers big. When you shine a light on quantum dots or apply electricity to them, they react by producing their own blue light. But when one student shined a laser on his batch of dots, something unexpected happened: A beautiful white glow covered the table.

The students then got the idea to stir the dots into polyurethane and then paint a blue LED light bulb with the mix. When electricity was applied, the lumpy bulb produced white light similar to a regular light bulb. If the new process can be developed commercially, you will soon be able to flip on a switch and your ceiling paint will light up with a rainbow of color options!

What does this have to do with Amazing Facts and sharing the gospel?

An Amazing Fact: In April 2007, Cameron Peters was driving through a Henderson, Nevada, neighborhood when he noticed fire and black smoke pouring out from a house. The teenager stopped his car, ran to the home, and discovered that eight young children were still inside. He called 911 and then courageously risked his life by entering the home, which was now engulfed in flames. "SAVE THE CHILDREN!" kept ringing in Cameron's ears as, each time, he entered the burning house. By himself, choking on the thick smoke, Cameron gathered up all the children and carried them to safety. He reentered the inferno multiple times to ensure that everyone had been rescued. In the end, the home was completely destroyed. Had Cameron not stopped and acted bravely, many young and precious lives would certainly have been lost.

An Amazing Fact: Corn is one of the most versatile of all plants and is used to make everything from flour, syrup, starch, oil, livestock feed, paints, soaps, linoleum, nylon, and more. But when corn was first discovered in the Americas, the plants were no more than four feet tall and the small ears had sparse kernels. But about 1933, botanists discovered that by combining the best qualities of different types of corn, they could grow healthier plants and 50 percent higher yields. They call this "hybrid vigor." Most of the corn now grown in the Corn Belt is hybrid and reaches about eight feet tall, and some varieties grow over 20 feet high with ears 2 feet long!