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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Kris Light, manager of the Wal-Mart in Bristol, Tennessee said an anonymous donor came into the store in December 2020 and paid almost $65,000 to pay off all the store’s layaways. The store then contacted every customer telling them their balance had been paid and they could pick up their items. Several…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In March of 2017, Christine Wallace purchased a purse from Wal-Mart. While clearing out the packaging, she found a hand written note in the bottom of the bag. To her surprise, she discovered a note in mandarin that read, “Inmates in China’s Yingshan Prison work 14 hours a day and are not allowed to rest…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
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…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
An investor who put $10,000 in Amazon’s initial public offering in 1997 would have nearly $5 million today. Amazon’s valuation of $464 billion is now twice that of Wal-Mart. Putting some perspective on Amazon’s dominance, just 12 percent of the companies on the 1955 Fortune 500 list are still on the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
An Ohio man chose to wear a sign proclaiming that he was a thief, rather than go to jail for his crime. Greg Davenport pleaded no-contest to theft charges for shoplifting at a local Wal-Mart. A municipal judge found Davenport guilty and gave him the option of wearing the sign outside the store eight…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
The entire Thanksgiving weekend used to be a time for families to be together. Then came Black Friday—a day to get good deals for clothing and electronics. Today, many are staying home again, due to the increase of violence. In the Chicago area, in 2013, a police officer shoots a thief at a Kohl’s Department…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
In a Pennsylvania Wal-Mart, on the day all the layaway orders were set to be cancelled, a man walked into the customer service center and said he wanted to pay off customer layaway accounts. He gave $50,000 to help pay accounts. He asked to remain anonymous giving his name as Santa B. Giving is never…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
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…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A long-haul truck driver who works for Wal-Mart has received an award for driving 4 million miles without an accident. Warren Greeno of Loveland, Colorado accumulated the mileage by driving an average of 500 miles each working day for the last 31 years. To honor Greeno’s accomplishment, the company presented…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Traditionally, Thanksgiving Day in America is relatively untouched by commercialism. There are no cards or gifts, it is a time for family, friends, reflection, and a meal based on 400-year-old traditions. This year as Americans enjoy the family based holiday, the nation’s biggest retailers have announced…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
Let me show you what I mean. It’s 3 p.m. in the afternoon. You’re a mom of two toddlers: a four-year-old and a two-year-old. Today’s been an especially hard day. It may have been like the one a mom was having the other day when I called. I was calling her to tell her I was praying for a family member…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Peace "Peace on Earth, good will toward men?" Not in the shopping malls in America. Christmas, it seems, is bringing out the worst in some people. "No matter how fast you go, it's not fast enough for some people," said Dee Stripp, a part-time clerk at the Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi, Michigan. "People don't…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
GET REAL A few days after Christmas, a zoo official carrying a large net and snare knocked on Angie Anderson’s door. He said, “I just wanted to let you know that I’m going to be out front trying to catch this injured owl.” The official had seen the owl in front of Anderson’s house. Since it wasn’t moving…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
God's Economy Have you noticed how big SUV's have gotten? I saw a report on a morning show the other day of one that was so big, it couldn't even fit in a garage. The price tag on those puppies is more than what we paid for our first home. (Though I think our first home probably got better gas mileage.)…
Illustration • • 6 views
Subject: Things I learned living in Texas A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in Texas. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in Texas, plus a couple no one's seen before. If it grows, it'll stick…
Lee Zehmer • Illustration • • 22 views
People are drawn to friendly places. From the greeters at Wal-Mart to the smiling barista at your local coffee shop, businesses have learned to appreciate the value of creating a friendly first impression. Friendliness is the first step in building community. Places like Barnes & Noble and Starbucks…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 5 views
Admit it, you’ve been there (maybe even just a few days ago). You receive a gift that makes you grimace — an orange tie with purple stripes, perhaps, or a battery-operated radish peeler. You can’t be impolite and say, “I don’t like it. I want to exchange it.” So what do you say? Fortunately someone has…
Timothy C. Seal • Illustration • • 4 views
Ignorance A woman was weed-eating in her yard when she accidentally cut her cat’s tail off. She grabbed up the tail and took her cat to Wal-Mart to have it put back on. When asked why she brought the cat to Wal-Mart instead of to a veterinarian, she responded that she heard that Wal-Mart was the biggest…
Michael McDonald • Illustration • • 4 views
3 Dead as Gunman Opens Fire in Missouri Church Monday , August 13, 2007 NEOSHO, Mo. — A gunman opened fire in the sanctuary of a southwest Missouri church Sunday, killing a pastor and two worshippers and wounding several others, authorities said. One of the victims was the Rev. Kernal Rehobson, 44, who…
Ian Forest-Jones • Illustration • • 2 views
Despite its general unpopularity in the world today, hard work and free enterprise have historically built some of our most successful businesses. For example, there was the young Cincinnati grocer who had $372 and idea: sell many goods at a small mark-up each to obtain a larger overall profit. Today…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
OUTREACH A church in Australia has to take reservations for their Sunday morning worship services because so many people want to attend each week. Churchgoers on the Gold Coast of Australia enjoy a unique worship experience when they board The Church on the Water. Every Sunday morning the sea going chapel…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 84 views
AUTHENTICITY After McGwire hit 70 home runs in a single season in 1998, collectors scrambled to purchase his 1985 Topps rookie card. Con men were also scrambling. Not to buy cards, but to produce forgeries to sell to the collectors. At $200.00 a card, con men were raking it in. The best of the fakes…
Scott Cody • Illustration • • 12 views
Marty Koonce is our missionary to Togo Africa, but before he accepted the call to be a missionary, he was a manager at Wal-Mart and on the rise in that company. But he felt God’s tugging to do more with his life – to take God’s good news to people across the globe. How do you give up a six figure income…