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Shane Houston and a friend from New Hampshire were on a metal-detecting trip in New England and obtained permission to search the ground outside a church in Maine. Houston said they found several interesting items, but the most interesting discovery was a 222-year-old copper penny dating to the first…

Retired teacher Jennifer Daniel has been helping students at the C.A. Weis Elementary school for over ten years. She started partnering with the school the year her youngest daughter graduated from high school. Daniel got her church involved and they have impacted the lives of many children since. The…

Susan Cook and Patrick Riordan walked into a Payless shoe store looking for one reasonably priced pair of shoes—and walked out with 247 pairs. The Payless chain declared bankruptcy and the Hamilton Township store was slowly selling off its inventory at $2 a pair. “What if we buy everything here?” asked…

Bloomfield Colorado police officer Carolyn Becker has a special connection to a young man she has never met and has found ways to go above and beyond the call of duty to help him. Becker had wanted to help someone by being a live organ donor. She inquired about one person, but was not a suitable match.…

An anonymous donor could not bear to see the forgotten people of Fort Worth forgotten, so he gave most of his retirement funds to help the Church on the Slab buy and renovate their building. The retired railroad employee, who had served in Korea, saw an article telling how the church was about to lose…

Jim McElwain, the former coach of the Florida Gators football team accepted a low offer for his home in Gainesville because he thought it would help a family in need. McElwain left his position with Florida and took a job with the Michigan Wolverines. He had not listed his house for sale, when the low…

Rather than letting her wedding dress gather dust in the closet, Dawnetta Heinz is sharing it with other brides who cannot afford a dress. Heinz bought the strapless dress with beaded bodice on sale for $550. After her wedding, she offered it on a social media classified ad and within 48 hours a dozen…

A text message sent to the wrong number turned into fee tickets for a Stanley Cup playoff game. Amy Santora said she received a text offering her four tickets to the game. She didn’t recognize the number but called the person anyway. The person on the other end apologized and said he had sent the text…

Money transfer company WorldRemit analyzed remittances from people all over the world and found that Filipinos living abroad, especially those in Germany are the most generous when it comes to sending money home. The company found that Filipinos living in Germany sent home an average of $32.50 more than…

A Minnesota man who found two overdue library books at a vacation cabin said he was willing to make a generous donation to cover the late fees and to relive some old memories. Jon Kramer was searching through the books at his deceased parent’s cabin when he found a camping book and a cookbook that had…

Carrie Rausch, a 108 year-old woman can live her remaining years in comfort thanks to help from strangers. She lived in the same assisted living facility for three years, and was in danger of losing her home because her financial reserves were almost gone. Rausch’s daughter did not want her mother to…

Great Blessings from a Generous Gift *God wants us to be givers, because HE is a giver. He wants us to generously give our time, our talents, our tithes and our offerings. In short, God wants us to give our lives and our love to other people, every way we can. They will be blessed, and so will we. *Sometimes…

23-year-old Christine Royles of Portland, Maine needed a kidney transplant. Instead of just waiting for a donor she got creative. She put a sign on the back of her car asking strangers to consider donating. Josh Dall-Leighton saw the sign in a mall parking lot and told his wife, “I have to try.” The…

It took a couple of months for someone to discover the typo, but was quickly corrected when it was discovered. The $500.00 rug outside the Pinellas County Sheriff’s office in Florida was supposed to say, ‘in God we trust,’ but the rug manufacturer mistyped the word God, rearranging the letters so that…

Caring for others is a character issue. Raymond Burse is the president of Kentucky State University. With a salary of $350,000, Burse is well paid for the challenges he faces leading a major state university. Recently Burse took a voluntary pay cut to $260,000. The $90,000 the university didn’t pay him…

Retail stores are not typically known for their generosity, but consumer electronics giant Best Buy has recently been unexpectedly generous to two customers. Both of the shoppers ordered iPads online and were shocked when a box filled with five of them arrived at their door. When contacted, the company…

When Forbes magazine compiled its most recent list of the world’s wealthiest people, Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates was no longer on top. Gates was replaced by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim. Slim did not capture the new position because his business grew dramatically; rather he became the world’s…

Some of the world’s wealthiest people have launched a campaign to encourage the ultra-rich to give away the majority of their fortunes. Originally Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett started their project as a series of private dinner meetings, but now they have opened a public campaign calling…

A misdialed telephone number became the basis of a miracle of God’s provision in California. Virginia Saenz could hear the desperation in the voice of a message left on her telephone at 5AM the day before Thanksgiving 2009.The caller named Lucy was calling her daughter to say that she could send money…

Cindy Kienow, who works at a popular restaurant in Hutchinson, Kansas, had been waiting on one of her steady customers for 3 years. He always tipped her well, sometimes leaving as much as half the tab. Then he outdid himself—he gave her a $10,000 tip for a $26 meal. He told her, “I want you to know this…

Frank Hanna is a very successful businessperson. He has learned the secret to more than financial success, but also financial contentment. He gives generously to charities including helping to found three schools in Atlanta. When asked about giving in tough times he responded that it is important “because…

MONEY We have heard stories for years about businessmen in 1929 jumping from skyscrapers on news of the stock market crash. Today’s executives cannot jump out of windows onto Wall Street. The windows do not open. On Jan. 5, 2009, however, Adolf Merckle, a German billionaire, threw himself in front of…

The best illustration of this is something I just wish that you could experience. You’d have to hop a jet to do it. Once you arrived in Xalapa, Mexico, you’d have to snake your way up into the mountains to the “land that time forgot.” Nestled in the lush mountain forest, you’d find a little village called…

As we’ve already said, our culture takes the opposite approach. We don’t want to destroy the power of money, we worship it. Mark Twain said, “Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.”

Someone I know very well was recently challenged to give to a Christian college. They met with the director of Development and thought, “Well, I know he’s going to ask for money, so here’s what I’m planning to do.” Now the number he picked out to give was respectable, but not really generous. He knew…