Living Faith
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Living faith
Painting the town | Window painter makes colorful Christmas splash
Under the deft hand of Dan Clarkson, proprietor of Dano’s Signs Graphics & Designs, Santa Claus gets a ferocious workout surfing, unclogging toilets, rooting for the Chargers, sledding on toothbrushes, delivering pizza, jet-skiing, and line…
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Radically redeemed | Once abused and broken, Tony Pallotto now rescues teens in trouble
Tony Pallotto knew that his father hated it when they were late for something. Time mattered, even when he was plastered on a barstool. “I once picked him up four minutes late at a bar,”…
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Bags of blessings | Young teen uses brain tumor experience to bring healing to others
You won’t find words like resection, anesthesiologist, magnetoencephalography and pilocytic astrocytoma on a second-grade spelling test, yet they quickly became part of young Alyssa McElfresh’s vocabulary after doctors discovered a brain tumor in her left…
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Local teen shows Soles4Souls
In many ways Tiffany Barbera is like any average Southern Californian middle-schooler. She likes skateboarding and dreams of playing volleyball at Stanford University. She hopes to parlay her love of animals into a career as…
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Joni Eareckson Tada: Suffering is sacred
Joni Eareckson Tada was a talented teenager who enjoyed hiking, horseback riding, and swimming. Then, at the age of 17, she dove into Chesapeake Bay after misjudging the depth of the water and broke her…
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Art at the center of life with Down Syndrome
People with different ability levels need the arts, and the arts need them, too. Katie Blind has sung and danced her entire life, keeping her iPod close by and filled with music. Since she was…
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From rejection to redemption | Country artist uses broken past to communicate through words and music
Alone in her tiny apartment, Mary James replayed the conversation over and over in her head. She had listened quietly as a pregnant friend recited her reasoning for getting an abortion. As the friend talked,…
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Former drug smuggler says God called him to rescue others
Ahmad Faraj* was 16 when he overheard his parents plotting to kill him because of his Christian faith. “We have to kill him,” he heard his mom say. “We can’t have a Christian here.” The…
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