Miraculous Rescues of Ordinary People

A U.S. Airways jetliner takes off from LaGuardia Airport on January 15, 2009. Almost immediately, it goes down with 155 people aboard, after losing power in both engines. The pilot, Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger, III, made the decision to ditch the plane in the freezing waters of the Hudson River, since he had no power with which to land. The airplane floated for about an hour, during which all 155 passengers were rescued by a group of ferries and emergency boats, which immediately headed for the downed plane as soon as it hit the water.

In September, 2008, three-year-old Leona Baxter was playing in some puddles at a London park when she was suddenly swept into a storm drain, along a concrete pipe for about 50 meters and then thrown into an engorged river. Floating face-down in the river, she was spotted by her father, who quickly pulled her to safety, where an emergency team gave her CPR. The little girl was brought back to life, ending up with only a few scrapes and bruises from her ordeal. Her mother, Beverley Baxter, exclaimed, “Someone was watching over us!”

When a six-year-old Canadian boy got grabbed at knife point in November of 2007, his eight-year-old brother, who had witnessed the abduction, was able to describe the man and the type of vehicle he drove to police. It took three hours before the police were able to get an Amber Alert issued, but someone else was already on the case. Brenda Epp heard about the boy’s kidnapping and immediately went to work telephoning friends and a nearby Christian group asking for prayer for the child. The kidnapper ran out of gas, police found him and the boy was rescued.