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(Meredith) A young man finally met the 86-year-old woman he befriended through an online word game, and now their friendship is melting hearts. Spencer, 22, lives in Harlem. On Friday, he traveled more than 1,000 miles to meet Roz at her retirement community in West Palm Beach, Florida. |
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A story of a friendship made through a word game app is warming the hearts of thousands of Twitter users. On Friday, Twitter user @Filth800, also known as Spencer, flew to Florida to meet a woman he has played over 300 games of Words With Friends with, and shared the pictures of their first meeting online. |
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On Friday, Twitter user @Filth800, also known as Spencer, flew to Florida to meet a woman he has played over 300 games of Words With Friends with, and shared the pictures of their first meeting online.
Spencer is 22 and his favourite competitor, Roz, is 86. so last summer i randomly met this 80 y/o woman on words with friends. |
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The news caught the congregation of St. Patrick’s Church by surprise. At Sunday high mass, there was an announcement that changes were coming in the administration of the parish. Nonetheless, for many in the pews that day, the penny still didn’t drop. Only later in the day did they realize that Father Martin Callaghan, among the clergy at St. |
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Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terry Glenn was remembered Saturday before friends, family and former teammates as a man whose best days were his last days. Glenn, 43, died in a car accident Nov. 20 while returning from the Cowboys’ 38-9 loss the Philadelphia Eagles with his fiancee, Verina LeGrand. |
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Ehime Alex writes that the Life Value Plus Nest Foundation is providing training for the less-privileged through its free skills acquisition programme. Having survived all kinds of hard life- confrontation, dejection, hopelessness from early age: no father, no mother, only to have lived bristly.... |
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MARION -- It's been nearly a month since a gunman opened fire in Sutherland Springs, Texas and killed 26 people, showing that no where is exempt from violence. Now local churches are taking steps to keep their congregations safe. "We need to make sure congregations know they are a place where violence could happen," Reverend John Holst said. |
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Robin Gardner, of LeGrange, shown at a Governor's restaurant in Old Town, treating her granddaughters to lunch. Gardner was killed in a fatal collision in Alton Nov. 24.
OLD TOWN — The family of a LaGrange woman and her adult son are struggling to understand their deaths, which occurred one week.... |
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Pastor Bill Millar served as pastor of Knox United Church in downtown Winnipeg for more than a decade. (Knox United Church/Facebook)
Looking back on 13½ years at the helm of Winnipeg's Knox United Church, retiring Pastor Bill Millar said the word that leaps to mind is "gratitude. |
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“One of the things that I have found out, in the nine years I've been doing this and probably a 1,000 sermons and presentations, if not more, is that a lot of Evangelicals have not been taught what the Bible says about caring for the earth,” Hescox told IndyStar in a phone conversation. “We don't own this earth. |
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Thursday afternoon. stopped a suspect who broke into his church Pastor Austin Brown was alone in his office at Five Forks Baptist Church when he heard a noise coming from the church office. When he checked the once-empty parking lot, he said he saw a vehicle he didn’t recognize. |
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We are each uniquely made for a purpose determined by God. Our physical uniqueness such as looks, finger prints, and DNA are easily recognised and used. But our functional uniqueness is less discernible because it relates to God’s purpose. Before God there is no ordinary person. |
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Christians and Christian leaders have been challenged to work on identity crisis and ignorance which have gradually robbed most Christians of a great life and blessings in Christ. This was reemphasized by Pastor Collins Yeboah during a launch of his second book titled "Living the Prophesy:.... |
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The long-promised scaled-down Archdiocese of Chicago is starting to take shape. In response to a historical shortage of priests, shrinking congregations and aging buildings, the archdiocese recently announced plans to combine three parishes in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood into one, effective July 1, 2018. |
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Kentucky's public schools are becoming less white, but black students still lag behind their white peers in reading and math proficiency according to an Associated Press analysis of more than a decade's worth of data from the National Center for Education Statistics. In 2000, 68 percent of Kentucky's public schools were at least 90 percent white. |
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CHRISTMAS PAGEANT/CONGREGATIONAL DINNER NEXT SUNDAY Please join us on December 10th at 4 PM to watch the Sunday School Christmas Pageant . The title of this year’s Christmas Pageant is "Christmas is Canceled". Students have been practicing their lines during Sunday School. The Dress Rehearsal is this coming Saturday, December 9th from 10am to 12pm. |
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A group of South Africans have become embroiled in an investigation into the disappearance of R6m from the coffers of a UK church and its charity. A two-year investigation by the British Charity Commission into the missing funds has torn apart Rhema Church London. |
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DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and his Edo State counterpart, Mr Godwin Obaseki have challenged Old Boys Associations to engage in programmes that will change the decline in the education sector. The Governors made the call yesterday at the 80th anniversary celebration of Edo College, Benin City. |
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The last surviving written document of the Siraya language, once widely spoken by Siraya Aborigines (西拉雅族) in the area that surrounds present-day Tainan, is a translation of the New Testament’s Book of Matthew from Dutch. Compared to later Scottish and Canadian Presbyterian missionaries James.... |
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Roz lives in a retirement community in Florida and began playing Words With Friends with Spencer last summer. Amy Butler, a pastor at The Riverside Church in upper Manhattan, set up the meeting and flew to Florida with Spencer. Spencer, who raps under the name 'High Class Filth', shared his record.... |
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TWO online Scrabble players who faced each other over 300 times have met for the first time in a touching moment. Spencer, 22, and Roz, 86, are from opposite ends of the USA but became good friends who met in real life on Friday.
Roz, 86, and Spencer, 22, met for the first time after playing over 300 games of Words With Friends against each other. |
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SEEKING support from their colleagues all over the country, at least 50 barangay officials and some members of Barug Team Rama signed yesterday a manifesto condemning the ambush-slay of Ermita Barangay Captain Felicisimo “Imok” Rupinta. Philip Zafra, Association of Barangay Councils (ABC) president,.... |
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(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) ABC4 News reporter Kim Fischer, in Salt Lake City Wednesday November 22, 2017. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Marching Utes on the field as the University of Utah hosts Washington State, NCAA... (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Carnegie's Public House, the Peery Hotel's latest restaurant. |
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Dr. Samuel Abiara during the thanksgiving service on Sunday. Photo: Novo Isioro.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo attended the 75th birthday thanksgiving service of Prophet Samuel Kayode Abiara, held at the Christ Apostolic Church, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Sunday. |
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Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the RCCG, has spoken again on the tithe controversy sparked by controversial Cool FM Lagos On-Air-Personality, Daddy freeze.
While speaking on Sunday, 3rd December, 2017 edition of his Daily Devotional, titled: “Open Heavens”, the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian.... |
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