Last September 11, 38 diverted aircraft with some 6,500 stranded passengers and crew converged on Gander, Newfoundland, practically doubling the population of the city in a matter of hours. People throughout the region responded with all they had—testifying to the spiritual hero that waits to be discovered in each of us.
"I will never be in the same place I was a year ago," says a chaplain who ministered to people on the scene at the crash of American Airlines Flight 77.
A young woman goes off to work in a big city far from her small hometown, leaving her family behind. This memoir tells how she faced homesickness and found a new home.