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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…