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While serving time in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in upstate New York, for a crime he didn’t commit, John “Divine G” Whitfield had what he describes as a “spiritual epiphany” from God: Create a transformative experience for his fellow inmates that would prepare them for a life beyond the prison walls. Divine…

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At 21 years old, Brooke Huckaby has made history as the youngest woman mayor in U.S. history, taking office in the small town of Arabi, Georgia. Huckaby, a college student studying agriculture technology, was elected mayor of the town of about 500 people located 150 miles south of Atlanta. Huckaby also works part-time for the…

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A group of 50 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 were hiking in Salina Canyon, Utah, when the unexpected happened. The girls and boys were on a youth trip with their church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, trekking through the mud when a storm rolled in, and lightning struck the…

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It was lost, but now it’s been found. That’s the story regarding a Georgia man’s beloved Bible, which had gone missing for months before a good Samaritan’s persistence changed everything. In January, William Bailey lost his Bible when it fell off his car before he went to church. He told The Courier Herald he prepared…

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