by Debby Efurd | Oct 19, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
On December 14, 1927, a young, 36-year-old anthropologist named Zora Neale Hurston, boarded a train at Penn Station headed for a certain community on the northern edge of Mobile, Alabama. She was on that train to meet the last living person who could tell the...
by Debby Efurd | Oct 5, 2026 | Inspiring True Stories |
On the morning of December 14, 2012, twenty-nine-year-old teacher Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis was finishing morning class with her first-grade students at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Fifteen children sat in front of her, all only six or seven years old. They had been...
by Debby Efurd | Sep 28, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
In 1869, New York City had a big problem that no one wanted to discuss. Every morning, municipal workers moved through alleys, doorways, ash heaps, and vacant lots collecting the bodies of abandoned infants. It happened so often that individual cases barely seemed...
by Debby Efurd | Sep 7, 2026 | Faith & Prayer, Inspiring True Stories |
In January, 1999, Graham Staines was an Australian missionary who spent more than 30 years in India caring for people suffering from leprosy-those whom society had cast away. He lived among them, washed their wounds, fed them, and preached Christ to the forgotten. In...
by Debby Efurd | Aug 24, 2026 | Inspiring True Stories |
It amazes me to discover unknown stories of miraculous outcomes. People who make life better for others, without seeking profit or recognition. Here’s a perfect example. In 1858, a thirty-year-old physician accepted a job most young doctors would have avoided. He...
by Debby Efurd | Aug 10, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
In the summer of 1985, two boys from Dublin, Ireland went outside to play before dinner. Within a matter of days, they stepped off a jumbo jet in New York. They crossed the Irish Sea and the Atlantic without passports, tickets, luggage, or a single adult noticing what...
by Debby Efurd | Aug 3, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
In November 1938, a sixteen-year-old Jewish girl named Hilde Back arrived in Sweden, alone, on a train from Germany. Her parents were not with her. The Swedish government had agreed to accept only Jewish refugee children, not their parents. Hilde’s mother and...
by Debby Efurd | Jul 27, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
Between 1854 and 1929, there was a crisis in New York City. The city had become unsustainably overcrowded due to an influx of thousands of immigrants every day. Does this sound familiar? An estimated 350,000 orphaned, abandoned and homeless children were transported...
by Debby Efurd | Jul 13, 2026 | Inspiring True Stories |
It was the wee hours of July 11, 2022, when twenty-five-year-old Nick Bostic was driving through the streets of Lafayette, Indiana. He had gone for a drive to clear his head after arguing with his girlfriend, windows down, driving aimlessly with no particular...
by Debby Efurd | Jun 1, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
The RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. The largest ocean liner ever built, the Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, with over 2,200 people on...
by Debby Efurd | May 26, 2026 | Inspiring True Stories |
It was in the wee hours on September 3, 2019, in Edsbyn, Sweden. Emma Schols heard screaming from downstairs. Her youngest boys ages 4 and 3 had wandered down to play. The television room was already consumed by fire. By the time Emma reached them, smoke had turned...
by Debby Efurd | May 11, 2026 | History & Heroes, Inspiring True Stories |
How is it possible? He was never a doctor or ever held a license. He never set foot in a medical school. But somehow, he managed to save over 7,000 lives.He was known as “Dr. Couney,” but not a real doctor at all. With no education or license he was a charlatan in the...
