The Good News - July 2009 Palm Beach Issue
24 pages
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GoodNewsFL.
org
NO MORE MEDIOCRITY
Stop waiting for your ship to
come in.
Instead, swim out to
meet it pg.
12
BRING JONAHTO LIFE
Local artistAllegra Spaulding
captivates children with colorful
murals of Bible characters...
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INSIDE www.
GoodNewsFL.
org
NO MORE MEDIOCRITY
Stop waiting for your ship to
come in.
Instead, swim out to
meet it pg.
12
BRING JONAHTO LIFE
Local artistAllegra Spaulding
captivates children with colorful
murals of Bible characters pg.
4
HURRICANE FORECAST
One local hurricane expert
shares the Five Ps of
Preparedness pg.
5
LIVESON FIRE
Fightingfiresisn’teasy
work,butsomerescue
workersgetfiredupabout
servingpeopleinneed.
By Marisa Zeppieri-Caruana
THE GOOD NEWS
A typical day in the life of a fire rescue
worker is anything but ordinary.
Fromblazinginfernosandcaraccidents
to heart attacks and fall victims, firefighters
and paramedics never quite know what to
expect when the next call comes in.
Theserescueworkersseemtoexemplify
John 15:13 – “Greater love has no one than
this,thantolaydownone’slifeforhisfriends”–
by risking their lives in order to save their
fellow man.
Although these heroes have been
praised and recognized more since Sept.
11,
2001, their work still pushes them to the
limits of physical exhaustion and emotional
fatigue.
However, some local firefighters have
something special to keep them going when
they reach their breaking point: The Lord.
For one local man, becoming a
firefighter was an answer to prayer.
After years of financial difficulties and
struggling to support his wife and three
children, Dania Beach Firefighter and
Paramedic Aaron Guest realized that his
family could not continue to survive on a
lifeguard’s salary.
So, he asked God to show
him which path to take.
“I felt that God ultimately had a bigger
andbetterplanformylife.
Iremembertimes
in my life when I would just cry out to God
for help.
When I think back to all the times
that I thought I was alone in this world, I
realize now that God never left my side for a
single moment,” states Guest.
Guest’s uncle pointed him in the right
direction by encouraging him to pursue fire
rescue school.
His uncle also gave the family
a vehicle and paid the down payment on a
new home for the Guests.
“God put people in my life that – if they
weren’t there and He didn’t give me the
strength – then I wouldn’t be where I am
today,” he says.
Now that his life and career are in a
betterplace,Guestuseshisjobtohelpothers
who are in difficult situations.
“I feel like this is what I was meant to do
in life,” he says.
“These people who we meet
on the calls, you know that they are already
havingproblems.
…Ontopofnotfeelingwell
or an accident, now they are thinking about
how much the hospital is going to cost, who
will watch their kids and all of life’s other
stressors.
I want them to feel as comfortable
and [as] close to home as possible when they
are in our truck.
I try to encourage them and
tell them that God has a purpose and a plan
for them, and I watch as something very
powerful happens.
”
Guest began to reach out to others
more at work after he read a book entitled
“Sirens for the Cross” written by Port.
St.
Lucie Firefighter and Paramedic Tommy
Neiman.
“We got to meet Tommy in person at
an event for firefighters, and he gave all of
the rescue workers a copy of his book and
shared his testimony with us,” says Guest.
“Hearing his stories and his love for Christ
was an inspiration to many.
”
go to ON FIRE p.
6
Dania Beach Firefighter and Paramedic Aaron Guest
Palm Beach Edition | July 2009 vol.
8, no.
3
p.
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