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About 171,000 visitors trekked through Nepal in 2019, hiking, eating in cafes, staying in inns and buying mountaineering equipment. With the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, hardly anyone came to the country. This meant that thousands of mountain guides had no work or way to feed their families. Ang Phumba…

16-year-old TJ Kim has spent a lot of time hoping to make a difference in Virginia and Maryland by collecting and flying personal protective equipment to rural hospitals. Kim donated 4,300 pieces of PPE to August Health in Virginia. Over the three months prior to that, Kim made close to a dozen flights…

During the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic one of the hardest hit businesses were restaurants. Just hours before the Ohio governor ordered all bars and restaurants to shut down, a customer at the Coaches Bar and Grill in Columbus tipped $2500 on a $30 Check. “Please split this tab equally,” he wrote. Owner…

An anonymous customer at a Houston restaurant left the staff a gift to help the staff hours after the county announced mandatory business closings in response to the Coronavirus outbreak. The restaurant said the customer left a $9400 tip a few hours after the county mandated the closings and left a note…

Six-year-old Daphne Kenny found a surprise in the cereal aisle that made her trip to grocery extra special. While she, her sister, and mother were shopping Daphne pulled a piece of paper from the shelf beside a box of cereal. Her mother thought it might be someone’s grocery list, but it turned out to…

An Atlanta area church decided to reach out to families in their community by paying off $10,000 worth of layaway items at a local Wal-Mart. Senior Pastor Kevin Murriel made the announcement for 23 families who expressed their gratitude for the help at Christmas season. The pastor said the church was…

Hundreds of residents of New Bern, North Carolina needed help after Hurricane Florence flooded their community with torrential downpours. One of those helping was retired Marine Jason Weinmann. After he left the Corps, Weinmann purchased a large military transport vehicle at a government auction with…

Michelle England beat cancer in 2014, but the cancer returned a few years later. She wasn’t able to work while she underwent chemotherapy and struggled to pay all of her bills. She was able to pay her mortgage, and utilities, but wasn’t able to make the car payment, so the dealership repossessed her…

After 80 years of playing the piano for her church, Shirley Kendrick decided to retire. Kendrick started playing the piano in the church basement when she was nine, and first played for worship services at age eleven when the other pianist moved away. Over the years, Kendrick taught many students how…

A woman who wanted to help her church build a new building put a rare and valuable gift in the offering plate during a special Easter offering. The woman, who prefers to remain anonymous, gave an 1866 proof Liberty Head double eagle coin to the church to help finance the new building. Her church has…

A Florida woman who was feeling generous started a pay-it-forward chain that lasted for hours. When the woman paid for her meal at a fast food restaurant, she told the cashier that she wanted to pay for the meal of the car behind her. When the cashier told the next car that their meal had been paid for,…

Peggy Uhle was already on a flight from Chicago to Columbus waiting to take off when the plane turned back to the gate and a flight attendant asked her to get off. She thought maybe she had gotten on the wrong plane and she complied. The gate agent asked her to check in at the desk, and the desk told…

Getting into the Christmas spirit, former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow teamed up with Pay Away the Layaway to bring some joy to people in Orlando on network television. Tebow visited a Walmart, and paid off their layaways, bringing tears to the eyes of many of them. One of those he helped was Damara Jarrett.…

In the middle of a typically hectic Monday night at a Texas Chick-Fil-A, one man made a huge difference. The man, who has not been identified, paid for his meal then gave a donation of $1,000 telling employees he wanted to pay for everyone in the line behind him. Employees said most customers smiled,…

After Ginger Foss’s home was destroyed by an Oklahoma tornado, she posted a picture on Facebook telling how God has delivered her in the middle of the 200 mph winds. Her post caught the attention of a pastor 8,800 miles away in Thailand. The pastor had met Foss when she had served as a missionary in…

Georgia transportation officials say motorists will no longer be able to pay-it-forward at toll booths because other drivers have been complaining about the possibility of theft. Bert Brantley, from the State Road and Tollway Authority said some driers complained that they thought some toll booth workers…

Scott Kwak was a successful business man who founded and led his own e-commerce company, until the summer of 2007, when the market crash forced him to close the company. Kwak says he was in a state of despair and admitted that his faith in God plummeted as the company went down. He was lost about what…

In October 2015, Sanmay Ved found a bargain. He saw that the domain “Google.com” was available for $12 and snagged the multi-billion dollar company’s URL. His quick thinking wound up benefitting a local nonprofit group. In less than a minute Google realized the mistake and cancelled the sale. Ved agreed…

An IRS agent called Father O’Malley and asked, “Father O’Malley, is John Brown a member of your congregation?” Father O’Malley said, “Well, yes he is.” The IRS agent asked, “Did he give your church a gift of $20,000?” Father O’Malley replied, “No, but he will.”

1828 Wesley’s Surpluses From the books alone John Wesley gave away between £30,000 and £40,000. He told Samuel Bradburn, one of his preachers, in 1787, that he never gave away anything less than £1,000 a year, and yet, when he died, his personal estate amounted to only a few pounds. When earning £30…

John Grisham's newest novel, The Street Lawyer, opens with a homeless man taking several lawyers hostage in their office. Wanting to determine how much each lawyer donated to the poor, the hungry, and the homeless, the man orders one of the lawyers to obtain the others' tax records for the previous year.…

Lechem - Bread by Josa Bivin1 "For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." John 6:33 When Richard and Lucinda (our volunteer workers) first came to Israel, they noticed plastic sacks containing pieces of bread hanging from the sides of the trash containers…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…