An incredible story of sacrificial grace: Making time for an encounter that changes everything
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR DECEMBER 22, 2020
I was deeply impressed by a teacher's remarkable sacrifice for her students. Today's podcast tells her story, then we discover the path to transforming encounters that change our lives and our world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
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| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
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| 0:47.5 | This is one of the most amazing stories I've seen in a while. |
| 0:51.7 | A preschool director in Indianapolis has taken a second job as an Uber |
| 0:56.3 | driver to buy Christmas gifts for her students and their siblings. Renee Dixon was a teacher for |
| 1:02.1 | more than two decades before directing the Lynn Hurst Baptist Church Preschool for the last two years. |
| 1:08.6 | So many of our families don't have money to get Christmas presents this year, |
| 1:12.7 | she said. Some parents have lost their jobs. Others have had their wages cut back. A lot of them |
| 1:19.2 | already come from low-income families and are below the poverty line. Dixon, who has lost three |
| 1:25.5 | family members to the coronavirus pandemic, decided she would not |
| 1:29.3 | let any of her students go without gifts this holiday season. |
| 1:33.3 | So in early November, she set up a driver profile on Uber and Lyft and instituted very strict |
| 1:39.3 | health protocols for herself and her passengers. |
| 1:43.3 | After her school day ends, she drives until one or two |
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