Some people around have no other choice but to bare the heat, rain, cold, and all weather to get to their destination. This could be school, work, or to the grocery store. Anthony Perry was one such individual. The 20-year-old was no stranger to taking two busses and a train to get to his job with Amazon Fresh out of Oak Lawn. Yet, on Monday, his travels were interrupted at the CTA’s 69th Street Red Line station, where he helped a man who had wound up on the tracks – saving his life. Wednesday, Perry was respected and honored for…
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Two churches in Stockton are cooperating to take care of families that need a little extra oomph when it comes to putting their next meal on the table. Adding, that this is a need that consistently expands. A large amount of food was taken over to Stockton Tuesday and soon every last morsel of it will get to the food storage pantries and afterward into the hands and mouths to those who need it the most. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is working with the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Stockton to assist with taking care…
A photograph from a traffic stop out of North Carolina has helped to restore faith in humanity for many people all around. “It was a really beautiful moment for me to see this take place between my dad and the officer,” Ashlye V. Wilkerson said. Ashlye, 39, was driving her dad, Anthony Geddis, nicknamed Tony, who’d recently finished a series of chemotherapy treatments at the University of Duke Medical Center, back home over in Columbia, South Carolina. “We heard a siren and saw a blue light coming behind us. I immediately looked down and to the sign on my right…
I typically don’t listen to any type of worldly music or keep up with any celebrities. Especially now a days when its full of sinful nature talking about sex, killing, and even some just straight up saying blasphemous things. I’ve heard people say they only listen to this type of music because they like the ‘beat’. However, it matters what you consume. It matters what you allow into your life, and whether you only pay attention to the beat, or embrace it in full, spiritual warfare is going on and you’re feeding you flesh. I could go on and break…
In Mark 12:31 the Bible says “And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” This is simply to guide us in learning that we would need to work on ourselves first so that we can show kindness to our neighbors as we would do unto ourselves, or in other words ‘treat others how you’d want to be treated’ is a more simple way to understand it. While the Bible in this way means everyone when it talks about your neighbor, this actual neighborhood did just this…
According to SPCA, there are over three million dogs that enter the the U.S. animal shelters nationwide every year, and every year there are nearly 400,000 dogs euthanized. However, when animals get adopted or they are found to belong to someone and the owner and pup are reunited – that can bring the numbers down by 2 million for adoptions and over 700,000 pups who are reunited with their owners. That certainly brings the number down, and I’m sure it’s no easy task. I’m sure the employees or volunteers work around the clock to make this happen – and at…
Jerusalem is the holiest city in the world, for Christians when we read the Bible we get to learn that this area was the historical region in which Jesus was born. He also ministered, worked miracles, and was likewise crucified and resurrected here as well. In addition to these historical moments, much of the Bible was written and took place here both in the New and Old Testaments. Most Christians make it a life goal to visit the place just to see Holy artifacts, pray at the wall, and see sights such as the mount of olives. This is one…
A remarkable rescue sees two young girls and their father saved after their boat hit an obstacle of a bunch of fallen trees. The event occurred in the Lewis River, Washington rescuers revealed. A Fireman answered a mistaken emergency call about a drowning family near Ridgefield and found the dad with his 8-year-old girl holding on for dear life to the riverbank around 1:00 p.m. Saturday, on June 11, a Clark Cowlitz Fire Rescue news release revealed. The rescue group of Firemen had to battle their way through cliffs, overgrown bush, and other troublesome territories to arrive at the pair,…
If you read your bible, you know that Matthew 7:7-8 says “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh. findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” However, let’s not stop there, we can also remember James 4:3 where it reads: “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” Some people may read the chapter and think that this has no correlation to this story. However, if you…
A small medication trial is having a seismic effect in the realm of oncology: After a half year of an experimental treatment, growths evaporated in each of the 14 patients who completed the trial and had early-stage rectal cancer. Scientists in the field of colorectal malignant growth are hailing the study, distributed Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine, as a huge improvement that could prompt new therapies for different cancers as well. “I don’t think anyone has seen this before, where every single patient has had the tumor disappear,” said Andrea Cercek, an oncologist with Memorial Sloan Kettering…
We all remember growing up and being in high school, where most people end up falling into groups of like-minded individuals, and from there – they stick together. You’ve got your cool kids, jocks, smart people, the nerds, and the cheerleaders among others. However, this type of grouping while prevalent in high school starts early on in middle school where we can find bullying and making fun of others tracing back to even elementary. We look to a 6th grader who was struggling to partake in one of the most memorable endings to a grade – getting his yearbook signed.…
Firefighters are at it again, coming to the rescue of a stranded pupper. I’ve mentioned this a few times before, but Firefighters do much more than just battle fires – not to make that part of the job smaller because it’s extremely important – but they are also first responders. As you can count on them to charge into battle to fight fires, you can depend on them as well if you’re stranded in a waterway and can’t get yourself out. That is the very situation that played out on June 1, for the unfortunate pup named Bear, an 11-year-old…
There are a few things people might think of or associate with when they think of America. Things such as Freedom, 2-A, diverse communities, independence day, bacon or burgers, and many others. There have even been businesses who’ve made the association a part of their slogan or named menu items with America or American in the name. One such example is Dunkin’ Donuts, where in 2006 they ran a campaign, I’m sure you know it and have heard of it – “America Runs on Dunkin’.” The slogan was meant to portray American people who’re busy with their tiring and routine lives…
Usually, when we hear the words hero and school together in a sentence, we expect that a teacher or adult helped children do something, or saved children in some way. However, this story shows that there’s another side to the coin. One where we see the children working together to save their teacher. These young first graders in an Alabama elementary school are being crowned as heroes for springing into action to help their teacher during a medical crisis. The fateful event at school took place in January. There were fewer students in the class than on a typical day,…
These days, it seems that many people are out of a job or unemployed. Some might be waiting for the next stimulus check to get by, and some might be relying on other benefits. However, some are trying to get back to work, and with help wanted signs posted everywhere, it’s odd how many are finding it really difficult to get hired. Now, if we take that situation and apply it to disabled people trying to get jobs, things begin to look pretty bleak. However, one lady has stepped up and is trying to change those dark clouds. Letisha Wexstten…
In a world of chaos, we’ve got people who are kind, and through all the darkness their lights shine through. Often times the light is part of their moral compass given to them through the Holy Spirit. For example, we recently came to you with the young woman from H-E-B who said that she felt pushed and heard a voice in her head to pay for a grandma’s groceries who she didn’t know. She fully believed that was the Holy Spirit talking to her. Even if the person isn’t a born-again Christian, or believes in God, there are still kind…
A total paralyzed man, who was unable to convey any type of communication for months in the wake of losing the capacity to try and move his eyes, has received a brain implant and at long last was able to communicate for the first thing in quite a while, and you won’t believe what he said right out the gates. The man, who is presently 36 years old, had two square electrode arrays carefully embedded into his brain to facilitate communication in March of 2019 in the wake of being left in a vegetable-like state because of amyotrophic parallel sclerosis…
One rainy day a good Samaritan found a dark-striped kitten on a back road. She stopped her vehicle to examine the cat and noticed him weakly lifting his head up as if he were asking for help, but later the same kitty gains confidence and pays it forward. The kitty’s mother was nowhere to be found and the tiny cat seemed to be lost, hungry, and soaking wet. The woman reached out to her friend Kelsey Minier, who volunteers for IndyHumane, in order to get him to foster care. “Our friend named him Jasper after a red jasper stone. We…
Some Firefighters out of Birmingham have come up with a great idea and gathered around 200 presents to provide to young children who spent last Christmas in the hospital. Younger or people who just are uninformed may think this is out of the way for Firefighters, but they do a lot more than just put out the fire waves. They are also first responders. That means that they will be on the scene when there is an emergency that the police might be dealing with – sometimes even beating the police to the scene. They also rescue and help find…
Oftentimes, when we think of girl scouts the first thing that comes to mind, is their famous girl scout cookies, and while they do have some pretty good flavors, that’s not what it’s all about. The girl scouts are about building confidence, courage, and building character in the young ladies to help them be more successful in life and learn critical thinking skills all while having fun and taking field trips, community service, and skill-building sports clinics, among others. This brings us back to what we’re familiar with, the oh-so-good cookies! Building up the next generation of empowered young ladies…