Accidents
Invisible Helper
Lisa Hanisch is married and the mother of two. She was baptized a Methodist, but her family rarely attended church when she was a child. “We were taught that there was a God, and He heard our prayers and guided us,” Lisa says, “but there was little formal training.” When she was thirteen, for various [...]
Underwater Rescue
Veronica Mulligan and her three friends, then all in their early 20′s, took off from work to travel across the country. “We were all from Throgs Neck, in the Bronx, New York,” Veronica says, and they hadn’t visited the western part of the country. “Upon arriving at Yellowstone National Park, we met the Ranger in [...]
Help in the Parking Lot
Joan Koscal lives in a very small Wisconsin town, and juggles a fulltime job at a bank and the needs of her large family. A few years ago, after working all day, Joan decided to grocery-shop on her way home. “My son and his wife and family were staying at our house temporarily, so I [...]
Harvest Angel
It was the end of harvest. Twenty-three-year-old Joanie had just come home from a job interview in town when her sister met her. “Dad needs you out in the field to help bail the rest of the hay,” Joanie’s sister told her. So Joanie hurried into the house to exchange her business clothes for jeans. [...]
Do Angels Drive Pickups?
Glen May was coming home from his work shift and turning off the interstate when he hit an abandoned car, just sitting on the side of the ramp. It was three in the morning and, of course, no other cars were anywhere in sight. “I had slammed my head against the windshield, and the blood [...]
Angel on the Tractor
It was a beautiful spring day, and Bill Garvey, of White Lake, Michigan, had decided to take a vacation day and get his garden ready to plant. Enjoying the scent of morning grass, he jumped up on his tractor, an old International Harvester model H, built sometime in the 1940’s. Old Betsy, as he called [...]
Angel on the Ladder
Jim Mitchell and his twenty-year-old son David were in the midst of a construction project, building a 12 foot by 16 foot utility barn in Jim’s back yard, in a country area in northeast Ohio. “I am not in construction,” Jim says, “but David was working with an Amish construction crew that summer.” Both men [...]
Angel of Mercy
It was a rainy evening about 9 p.m. when members of the Pulaski County, Arkansas, volunteer fire department were summoned to the site of an automobile accident. Chief Tom Caton, also an EMT was one of the first to arrive, and surveyed the scene with horror. A car, now almost torn in two, had spun [...]
