Angel Rescues
Falling Fan
Frank SanGregory of Tiffin, Ohio, was getting ready for work. He was on the afternoon shift so although his daughter Theresa and his almost-two-year-old grandson, Josh, were finishing lunch downstairs in the kitchen with Grandma, Frank had gone upstairs to shave. There was a large window at the top of the staircase, and right in [...]
Defend Us in Battle
On June 24, 2005, Georgia J. received notice that her son (we’ll call him Kenny) fighting in Iraq with the National Guard, had been critically injured, and was being transported by helicopter to a level 4-5 trauma hospital in Iraq. He had severe injuries; among them were collapsed lungs. One was totally collapsed, and the [...]
Danger Avoided!
Olivia was a single mother with two small children, ages seven and five. It was the day after Christmas, and all three were extremely tired. “My children were taking a nap and I was napping too, in our small upstairs bedrooms,” Olivia says. “The children knew to wake me when they got up and they [...]
CoPilot Angel
For about five years, Diane Oesterreich was the manager for Michael Furchert, a young Christian/cultural speaker and pianist from Berlin, Germany. He was booked to speak in many cities and states while in the USA. It was part of Diane’s job as manager to drive with him to engagements and help with his information table [...]
Cookies for an Angel
Christine Mulcauer’s postal service shift ended about three a.m. on Christmas Eve morning and despite the freezing cold, she decided to stop at the all-night grocery store on her way home to buy ingredients for Christmas cookies. “My family calls me ‘The Christmas Kid’,” Christine says. “I am really into the season and love making [...]
Clyde and Brutus?
Thirty-one-year-old Gerald Heffington was the manager of a gas station located in the small town of Morganfield, Kentucky. It was a rather rough section, and every night at closing time, his wife drove eight miles round trip to pick him up, since they lived out in the country. Gerald was hoping for a better job [...]
Behind the Scenes
The vast majority of “angel activity” seems to occur behind the scenes. The close call on the expressway, the falling tree that just misses your house, protection against fierce winds or rain—we’re likely to call these things “lucky breaks” or instincts. But could they also be due to a cadre of invisible bodyguards, shunning publicity [...]
A Word About Bill
It’s tempting to ask angels to take care of all of our problems. But in many cases, people are meant to be “earth angels” too. Bill Garvey knows this very well, for he is a “giver.” After 9/11, he and his family (and some helpers) carved an enormous pumpkin that they had grown themselves, got [...]
Anonymous Rescue
At a church in Chicago, a young woman told the congregation that she and a group of friends had been swimming in Lake Michigan off a Chicago pier. Laurie and her friends were the only ones there because swimming was forbidden; the water was too shallow for diving and there were rocks on the sandy [...]
Angels on the Battlefield
“My oldest son Andrew is in the Army Reserve, with the 458th Engineers out of New Kennsington, Pa,” writes Terri Anastasia, a mother from the Pittsburgh area. “In December 2002, Andrew received orders transferring him to the 459th Engineers, out of West Virginia. He was to report to the West Virginia base in January 2003, [...]
