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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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