Room in your cupboard, maybe?
Let’s say I give you some tasty fruit preserves. 22 tons of fruit preserves. $56,000 worth of fruit preserves. How fast could you stack...
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Doug Brendel
- Feb 1, 2022
- 2 min
Look what you did!
We just got the 2021 report from our “Response of the Heart” team, and ... WOW! What a beautiful, amazing picture of what caring people...
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Doug Brendel
- Jan 25, 2022
- 1 min
My Worst Problem
My laptop melted down this week. Computer problems are the WORST. I spent days alternating between rage and despair, getting all my...
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Doug Brendel
- Jan 18, 2022
- 1 min
Happy to
It was 10 years ago this week when I received this photo. The Great Kozovaya, longtime leader of our “Response of the Heart” team, sent...
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Doug Brendel
- Jan 11, 2022
- 1 min
5 faces
Simple photo. Five faces. What does it really mean? It’s a picture of your love, when you give to New Thing. You help provide gifts — not...
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Doug Brendel
- Jan 6, 2022
- 1 min
Visit the former USSR without ever leaving home?
News for Release January 6, 2022 Gloucester, MA Here’s your chance to visit the former USSR without ever leaving home! With the former...
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Doug Brendel
- Jan 4, 2022
- 2 min
What to do about a bad risk
“Bad risk.” That’s what we call someone who needs a loan but probably can’t pay it back. Avoid bad risks ... That’s a sensible rule of...
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Doug Brendel
- Dec 28, 2021
- 1 min
Christmas in a minute
Merry Christmas week! You may not understand a word, but take 51 seconds to enjoy excerpts from a Belarusian children’s Christmas...
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Doug Brendel
- Dec 21, 2021
- 1 min
Do you hear what I hear?
Christmas is the audio holiday. Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy: “Do you hear what I hear?” “Hark! The herald angels sing....”...
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Doug Brendel
- Dec 14, 2021
- 1 min
30 years in 17 seconds
Daddy died. Mommy couldn’t cope. Or Daddy never showed. Mommy went to jail. Or someone got sick. Or in a moment of despair, simply...
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