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After floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew filled her home, Jodi Gaddy prayed that someone would find her before the alligators swimming outside came into her home. Gaddy said there were helicopters overhead, but despite her attempts to contact them, no one noticed her signals. For three days, she lived…

Thomas Artiaga was passing a home in Fresno, California when he saw a house engulfed in flames. He ran into the house, threw 73-year-old Robert Wells over his shoulder and carried him to safety. Wells says he is lucky to be alive and is thankful for the man who saved him. Every day we run into people…

Eighteen-year-old Sam Ray says his cell phone’s voice recognition feature lead rescuers to him after his truck slipped off the jack and fell on him. Ray said he was pinned under the truck in a location where he couldn’t be seen or heard easily. He was trying to get free when he heard Siri activate. He…

Eva Lenfest made a wrong turn and drove down an unfamiliar rode covered in leaves, what she did not know is that it was not a road, it was a boat ramp. And since the surface of the water was also covered in leaves, she didn’t discover her mistake until the car was sinking. When Bryden Burlseon and Howard…

The Jascon 4 was helping to stabilize an oil tanker as it refueled at a Chevron platform 20 miles offshore in the Atlantic, when it capsized and eventually rested upside down on the ocean floor in 100 feet of water. Sixty hours later a team of divers began retrieving the bodies of the 12 crewmen aboard.…

When Mary Owen set out to climb Mount Hood in Oregon, she expected to make the ascent and return quickly. She filed the proper paperwork and set out alone to conquer the mountain. On her climb, a storm struck, and white-out conditions forced her to turn around. She got lost descending the mountain and…

Having not being notified of a hospital board meeting, Dr. Edwin West was the only Doctor available near the newborn nursery on a spring day back in 1976. A call went out for him to look at a prematurely born baby who had stopped breathing. He did mouth to face breathing, face because the baby’s face…

When Steve Gustafson heard a cry from Bounce, his small Terrier dog, he looked up to see it in the jaws of a 7-foot alligator. "I just knew that my best friend was going to be dead," Gustafson said. "And I took off." He jumped on the alligator and wrested his pet from its mouth. After a quick trip to…

There are a lot of ways to be saved, but there is only one way to salvation. Amy Stiner, 37, of Machias, Maine, who was five months pregnant, and her friend Melissa Moyer, 38, of Sunbury, Pa., became lost while hiking. The Maine Warden Service rescued them and returned them to their vehicle which they…

The British police had good intentions and they were sincere when they attempted to save a baby locked alone inside a car. They smashed the windows to reach the abandoned child only to discover the baby was actually an extremely realistic doll. --The Week, August 12, 2011 p. 4 Illustration by Jim L.…

Hope is powerful. Perhaps the most powerful thing we have. Sometimes, it is all we have. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck the island of Haiti in January 2010, destroyed buildings, and killed or maimed tens of thousands of people. As hope for victims began to fade, the discovery of a survivor…

LOST In April of 1912, over 1500 people lost their lives in the North Atlantic when the ship that they were aboard, the Titanic sunk to the bottom on the ocean floor. Many tragic things happen to cause so many people to perish, but there was one that grips our attention. When the ship sank, there were…

It was almost 1:00 in the morning when the phone rang. Dr. Leo Winters, the highly acclaimed Chicago surgeon, was abruptly awakened. There had been an accident and his skill hands were needed for immediate surgery. The quickest route happened to be through a rather tough area, but with time being a critical…

63-year-old Jeanne Schnepp got stuck in raging waters during a fishing trip and her partially deflated raft hung on some brush leaving her with no way of escaping the river. Five days into her ordeal, a passing fisherman happened to see her. Schnepp said the brush she was trapped in was only a few hundred…

One night a house caught fire and a young boy was forced to flee to the roof. The father stood on the ground below with outstretched arms, calling to his son, "Jump! I'll catch you." He knew the boy had to jump to save his life. All the boy could see, however, was flame, smoke, and blackness. As can…

Ira Sankey: In the late 1800’s Ira Sankey was very famous for being D.L. Moody’s song leader. On Christmas Eve of 1875, he was traveling up the Delaware River on a steamboat. Some of the passengers recognized him and asked him to sing for them. So, he sang the old hymn, “Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us.”…

\\ If we are going to be effective in reaching people for Christ we are going to have to start showing people that we really care. Evangelism and missions must be relational in nature. There is no record of Jesus walking up tosomeone out of the clear blue sky and saying: I am the Messiah and then him…

A Man Fell into a Pit Once upon a time a man fell into a pit and couldn’t get himself out. A sensitive person came along and said, “I feel for you down there.” A practical person came along and said, “I knew you were going to fall in sooner or later.” A Pharisee said, “Only bad people fall into a pit.”…

"Overboard Rescue" Passengers aboard a luxurious cruise ship were having a great time when a beautiful young woman fell overboard. Immediately there was an 80-year-old man in the water who rescued her. The crew pulled them both out of the treacherous waters. The captain was grateful as well as astonished…

"Suffering" ? The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from…