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Two Foster Children Receive “Christmas Miracle”

Two young foster children in Tennessee were granted a “Christmas miracle” when a prayer sent into the sky this summer was answered.

Eva, 6, and Jasmine, 8, were taking part in Vacation Bible School at the church they attended in east Tennessee. The children were told to put a prayer request inside a balloon that would be inflated with helium and released into the air.

So the girls wrote a note asking God to allow them to be adopted by the foster parents who had been caring for them during the last two months. The balloon was released with 30 others.

None of the balloons were ever heard from again…except for Eva and Jasmine’s.

The balloon made its way to a trailer park in McHenry, Maryland. The people who found the balloon mailed it back to the girl’s foster parents, Lynn and Dennis.

Lynn told WBIR-TV and the Christian Post the balloon being found was a message from God that she and her husband should adopt the girls. They had been praying for God’s direction and felt the balloon was confirmation they were to follow their hearts.

On Tuesday, a judge legally made the girls the daughters of Lynn and Dennis.

Man On Fire Kills One, Sets Church Ablaze

A man on fire ran into the offices of an Ocean City, Maryland church, setting the building on fire and killing himself and the church’s rector.

Fire officials do not know how John Raymond Sterner, 56, was set on fire.  He ran into the offices of St. Paul’s By-The-Sea screaming for help.  After grabbing a woman on the church’s staff and critically injuring her by setting her on fire, he ran through the very old wooden church building causing multiple fires.

The ensuing blaze took the life of 51-year-old Reverend David Dingwall, the rector of the church for the last 8 years.

Police say that Sterner frequently came for meals and assistance at a food pantry and clothing store for the poor that was run out the church.

The Reverend leaves behind a wife and three sons.

Mass Murder Plot Stopped In Maryland

Police have labeled a mass murder plot in Maryland as a possible copycat attempt of the Dark Knight Rises massacre in Colorado.

Neil Prescott, 28, referred to himself as “a joker” like the theatre killer in Aurora, Colorado. Prescott called his employer and said he was coming in to “shoot the place up” after finding out that he was about to be fired, according to police sources. Continue reading →