Last year, residents of Wenden, Arizona got the shock of their lives...TWICE. Wenden is just a little bump in the desert. Most of the people who call it home live in either trailers or RVs. One typically arid day, while Wendenites went about their business, rain pounded against a mountain twenty miles away. The deluge formed a flash flood that snaked...

High school sweethearts Carol and Richard McElroy always planned to spend their lives serving the Lord as missionaries. Yet after an initial posting in Costa Rica, it seemed that it was not to be. Carol accepted Christ at a young age and in her teens felt the Lord calling her to life as a missionary. Richard grew up in a Christian home and accepted...

When Ken and Eileen Priebe agreed to host a Canadian JESUS film team in Cameroon in 1989, little did they realize how that decision would affect their lives. Over the previous ten years, the Priebes had served as Baptist  missionaries in Western Cameroon, preaching and teaching at a number of small churches. But when the JESUS film team came,...

Tiding people over in a time of need After serving as receptionist at the Aldergrove Food Bank in Aldergrove, British Columbia for the past seven years, Pamela Hanon has seen all sorts of people walk through the door, anyone and everyone who has fallen on hard times. The experience has taught her some valuable lessons about life, most notably...

"And the King shall answer and say unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me'" (Matthew 25:40). Jeanne Jeffery stared at that verse in her Bible and then read it again. "Why, I've read and heard those words by the Lord Jesus Christ many times!" she thought. "Why...

Verena Hoffman of Rose Bay, Nova Scotia keeps a lot of "stuff" in her car because she doesn't always know where the Holy Spirit will lead. And for the past fifteen years, the Spirit kept her pretty busy. Since her immigration to Canada from Switzerland in 1985 and retirement from teaching in 1992, Hoffman has been the caretaker of a ranch in northern...

Some ladies in their eighties like to keep their age a secret. Sprightly Bernice Cresswell of Greenville, SC was one who didn't. In fact, every Mother's Day in recent years she went forward at her church, Oak Crest Baptist, to receive the orchid for oldest mother in the church. Bernice was also one of those stalwart Christians who hasn't thrown...