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Employees at a Dutch Brothers coffee stand in Vancouver Washington stopped and prayed with a woman whose husband had died the night before. Another customer saw the workers consoling the woman while she was at the drive-through and shared it through social media. Barbara Danner said, “When the DB guys…

Kaylee Goemans found herself in a pickle. Her 6-week-old son, Dominic, was in a lot of pain from intestinal problems. Kaylee packed him up in the car and rushed him to the emergency room. Once there she realized that she had let her car parked in a metered spot and hadn’t put in enough change. Because…

Mike Vegas ordered pizza and wings from a pizza company. He only had time to eat one slice of pizza before he left for work, so he put the rest of the order in the refrigerator to eat later. While he was at work that night, he kept getting message on his cell phone, but he didn’t pay any attention to…

An Australian mother who spent several days in the hospital with her infant son returned to find two surprises on her car. She found a parking ticket and a note from a stranger who had paid the fine. The mother, who did not identify herself, posted on a Canberra Mum’s Facebook page to thank the woman…

It is not uncommon for college football players to give up their last year of eligibility to seek a position in the National Football League. When Auburn running back Peyton Barber announced that he was leaving the school for the NFL, the reason surprised everyone. Barber said that his mother was living…

Would you agree that a lot of people ask how people how they are doing, but really don’t want to know the answer? Emily Cummins recommends using body language to show that you really care when you ask someone how he/she is doing. Building meaningful relationships takes time, investment, and intentionality.…

A new documentary, The Drop Box, tells the story of Pastor Lee Jong-rak, who founded South Korea’s first box for abandoned newborn babies. The film tells how Lee, once a dirty-tempered, skirt-chasing drunk, was transformed by a loving heavenly father to love his own child and other newborns and sick…

Singer, Chrissie Hynde, enjoyed the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll existence. She spent some of her early years on top of the music polls with the Pretenders. She lived the wild lifestyle with other rockers. When asked if she would do it all again she replied, “Definitely not.” She said, “I would get rid of…

When Liz Jensen accepted her fiance’s proposal in January, she never imagined that a complete stranger would play a part in her plans. Jensen picked out the wedding dress she wanted at a local shop, and when she went to pay discovered that someone had already paid the bill for her. The owner of the shop…

Middle school student Makenna Finnegan was running to set a new personal best time, when she stopped to help a struggling runner. Finnegan passed the other runner and noticed that she was holding her stomach and struggling to keep moving. Finnegan asked what was wrong and the girl said she had a bad…

Leaders attending the GC2 Summit at a Chicago church urged believers to reach out to those in need such as Syrian refugees. They said that despite anxieties over differences of religion, reaching out to people is an opportunity to preach the Gospel. The GC2 Conferences stands for both the Great Commission…

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,…

Before the beginning of the 2016 major league baseball season, Adam LaRoche abruptly retired. LaRoche had played 12 seasons with several different teams and was set to make $13 million this year alone. So why would a man walk away from $13 million? Adam started a tradition early on in his career. He…

One of the difficulties children with autism can have is an inability to make friends. They have problems with the rules of social contact. One young autistic boy, Gus, the son of New York Times reporter Judith Newman, has discovered a friend. This friend is always patient and kind. She never tires of…

Michel Flamant, a French baker, and Isaac Wenrich, a youth league baseball coach have something in common. Both of them had their lives saved in the same week by non-professional and unlikely people. Flamant had collapsed on the floor of his bakery when the room filled with carbon monoxide gas from a…

Amanda Thompson found a postcard hidden in a book she bought at a yard sale. It took years, but she was determined to find the rightful owner. Though she moved several times, and even went through a flood, the card remained in good condition. Finally, Thompson decided it was time to locate the owner.…

Stephen Curry’s golden boy image may have taken a hit after his outburst in game 6 of the 2016 NBA finals. Curry received his sixth foul with four minutes remaining in the game. Obviously upset with the call, Curry proceeded to curse the official and throw his mouthpiece into the stands hitting a fan.…

Toxic workers may be tolerated by their managers if they are high-performers, but they tend to make life difficult for everyone. One study showed that they create larger than normal turnover when their fellow employees leave, which generates increased training costs for the company. --Jim L. Wilson and…

Sometimes the duty to protect and serve means going the extra mile. A police officer in Illinois stopped a pizza delivery man for cutting through a parking lot to avoid a red light and found that the driver had drug paraphernalia in the car. After arresting the delivery man and a passenger in the car,…

When 15-year-old Yasir Moore went into a Target store to buy a clip on tie for a job interview, he was surprised by the response of the store staff. When he asked one of the employees, they told him they didn’t carry clip-ons. Rather than let the young man leave, Dennis Roberts helped him find a tie…

Authorities say a 77-year-old Florida man was fired from his job as a toll booth operator after he reportedly used his own money to pay a toll for a tractor trailer that he had undercharged. “Sam” Samsonov has worked at the tool booth for almost 30 years and was asked to scale back his hours after the…

Just before Christmas an anonymous woman walked into the Wal-Mart in Mesa, Arizona, went up to the customer service desk and gave them $5000.00 with the instruction to pay off as many delinquent layaway orders as that amount would cover. The store cleared 30 orders. “When Wal-Mart employees began phoning…

Janine LeDoux was closing up shop at a Denver area sandwich shop, when she noticed a wallet in the parking lot. LeDoux picked it up and began trying to find the owner. She got the name from the cards inside and as she searched, she realized that the only Bradley James Roby in the area was a cornerback…

Street children in New Delhi are taking some of the money they earn and sending it to help children in Nepal who have been affected by the recent earthquake. “I know what happens when an earthquake strikes,” said 14-year-old Rani (name changed). “I am not only collecting money from others but I will…

A $20 couch turned out to be worth a whole lot more for a group of New York college students. They purchased the lumpy couch from a thrift store, but were shocked when they began to investigate why the sofa was so uncomfortable. The students found money in envelopes stashed in different parts of the…