Posted by Sheffield, Illinois is a small town. So small that it doesn’t have any traffic lights. So small that it only has one grocery store. Royal Super Mart is important to the residents of Sheffield, and they didn’t want to lose it. The town is grateful for Elizabeth Craft who put together a fund drive to…Read more »
Posted by Happy New Year from Stories of Joy! Our Stories of Joy blog has its “6th birthday” this month. Since we started this project of “spreading hope in the world,” we’ve posted more than 680 stories. More than 9500 people have visited our site, and last year we hit our 100th country! Folks from Canada to Uruguay…Read more »
Posted by Sometimes watching the news is difficult. This year we’ve seen mass shootings, devastating storms, multiple wars around the world, and more. With all of that, we may need a reminder that we live in a wonderful world filled with loving people. Click the link below to watch Jon Batiste perform “What a Wonderful World” with the National Symphony…Read more »
Posted by Col. Ned Felder and Kris Olsen just met recently, but they’ve been friends for fifty-six years. They’ve been writing each other letters since 1967. Kris was a seventh grader then and sent a care package to a soldier in Vietnam. Col. Felder wrote back, and they’ve been connected ever since. Kris says she now realizes…Read more »
Posted by Santa rides a bike? He does in Milwaukee! LOTS of folks showed up recently to ride bikes in a giant Santa parade. It’s called the Santa Cycle Rampage. It started twenty years ago as a pub crawl, but it’s turned into a fundraising event for safe biking access projects and biking education programs. What a…Read more »
Posted by For 101 years the town of Minden, Nebraska has been lighting up the courthouse with Christmas lights. 101 years! That’s a lot of lights! Since 1946, the celebration includes the “Light of the World” Christmas pageant. Generations have come to look at the lights and feel the joy of the season. Click the link below to learn more about the…Read more »
Posted by It’s Christmastime, so Stories of Joy is bringing you some “extra joy” the next couple of days. For the past 25 years CBS Evening News correspondent Steve Hartman uses his segment “On the Road” to share joy with stories of people doing good things for each other. He says this story of kindness tops them all!…Read more »
Posted by We usually hear pass the potatoes, pass the bread, pass the salt, but what does pass the bricks mean? Pass the Bricks is a great program set up by Charlie Jeffers. Charlie has been building with Lego sets since he was four or five years old. Now he’s a senior in high school and realizes…Read more »
Posted by Mitchell Robinson has made it to the bright lights and big city as the starting center for the New York Knicks, but he hasn’t forgotten where he comes from. When Robinson’s high school coach’s wife was diagnosed with cancer, Robinson frequently visited her at the hospital. At her funeral, Robinson told his former coach that he…Read more »
Posted by 14-year-old Lauren Schroeder was volunteering at a local food bank when she noticed there were not a lot of fresh vegetables. She went home and told her parents that she wanted to start a garden on their farm. So she got to work researching the best vegetables to grow and then tended to them daily. Her first…Read more »
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