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An Unexpected Life

He told me with a pair of diamond earrings. “Happy birthday,” my husband said, his eyes glassy. I knew something was wrong. My birthday was still a few weeks away. Then David said it: he was going to Iraq. He’d received orders that his squadron would be deployed in a few weeks, and he would be leaving for war… on my birthday. He’d... >Full Story

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Facing Childhood Cancer

I would never have believed that a church would pray for a family they didn't know. But when they heard the news that doctors believed a child in this family had cancer - Lymphoma - that's what they did. My son Sam had a mass on his liver and spleen and small tumors forming in his abdomen. He was... >Read More



Alive, Really Alive

Story told by David MacLean, as told to Laurie Wang At the unripe age of nine, I was necking girls. Looking back as a husband and father, I could see I was going down a dangerous road at such a young age. That same year, my mom died of a heart attack. At that time, my sister was 20 and my... >Read More



A Fresh Focus

This is a story of a changed life, as told to Power to Change Ministries. Yulia Kolodotchka lived much of her life fearing she'd go blind. Then she discovered a vision of a higher power. My only chance of success in any profession, I thought, was to study English. Because of my vision problems, high school teachers called me lazy and... >Read More



Typhoons, Tarot Cards, and Trials

This is a story of a changed life, as told to Power to Change Ministries. Born in Tokyo in the 1960's to Canadian missionary parents, I was sent away to a very strict boarding school at age five. I came home with welts and bruises but lied to my parents about how they happened. I felt abandoned. I planned how... >Read More



Healed Heart

This is a story of a changed life, as told to Power to Change Ministries. I am a healer. At the age of fifty-five, I have spent most of my life as a doctor caring for sick children in kindergartens in Volgograd, Russia. This part of my life is clear and easy to understand. For many years, however, one piece of... >Read More



Going 'Down Under' and Coming Out On Top

In a day of dispassionate youth and faceless corporate giants comes a story of compassion and of circumstances that cannot be written off as coincidence. A chance to reaffirm your faith in humanity, and perhaps in something more, this is the story of a group of teens from Skagit County, Washington and a trip to Australia that didn't exactly... >Read More



Beyond Sadness

I don't remember many details of my early childhood, before I turned five. Just a sense of sadness about those years–a sadness that I didn't want. A sad childhood My biological father was a gambler and many times our furniture or our car were lost in a bet. When I was three- my brother only five months old- my father left... >Read More


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