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Daughter’s Death Leads to Renewed Purpose in Life

Patricia Fong was enjoying a typical workday at Amcore Investment Group on January 27, 2002 when she received a phone call that would change her life forever. The call was from her eighteen-year-old daughter, Megan, who was a freshman at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. An outstanding tennis player, Megan had earned a full athletic scholarship... >Full Story

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Faith of a Child

The night started out with a feeling of great excitement. I don’t know if it was the electricity in the air from the approaching storm or if it was from the energy I felt at having supper out with new friends. We had just moved and the neighborhood was full of children the same ages as ours, Catherine, three,... >Read More



All Natives’ Son

I am an American Indian woman from the Northern Paiute Tribe near Benton, California in the United States. Knowing who I am, many people are surprised to learn that I do not have a life history filled with drugs, alcohol, or prison as many Native people in North America do. I decided as a young girl that I would... >Read More



Free at Last

In 1971, the troubles in Northern Ireland were increasingly becoming a danger to myself and to my children. We were in constant danger from bombs and bullets. This was nothing new. Every day, on the radio, we listened to a horror story of suffering. Our personal horror came one night when we were awakened by two gunmen. One stood at... >Read More



Hope and a Future

I am a Native North American woman. I was abandoned at the age of four, with five other siblings, in a hotel in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. My parents were on a drinking spree. They were alcoholics and had left my oldest brother, who was seven years old, to care for us. The police and the welfare people stepped in... >Read More



Mom’s Mercy

When Eleanor Workman arrived in Haiti almost 30 years ago, people laughed at her. She was 51 at the time and everyone said she was too old to make a difference. “They told me I’d come too late,” she recalls. But Eleanor persevered. Convinced that God was calling her to care for Haiti’s orphans, the award-winning choir director...... >Read More



I Wasn’t Ready to be a Grandma

Facing the unexpected? Don’t do it alone, talk to a confidential email mentor. It’s been several years now, but I can still clearly picture the day I found out my teenage daughter was pregnant. I remember her standing in the kitchen saying, “Mom, embrace it!” My initial response to Amber’s words were, “Yeah, right, that’s easy for...... >Read More



Angel Boy

We heard shrill shouts and the dull thud of coconuts hitting the wall. From granny’s bedroom where my brother and I were supposed to be sleeping, we listened to the drunken brawl pitting my mother against my aunt. After my mom ducked the coconuts, my aunt pulled a knife on her. Mom retreated behind a locked door, but kept... >Read More


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