A collection of writings by
Salvationists & friends honoring
General Paul Rader &
Commissioner Kay Rader
on his 80th birthday.
Co-editors Major Stephen Court and
Commissioner Joe Noland turn to the four
stages of tsunami formation to explore
the metaphor Tsunami of the Spirit,
which General Rader developed
when elected The Salvation Army's
international leader in 1994.
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Among the duties the 52 year�old
performs as part of the Army's
rehabilitation program is working on
trailers donated for resale. The
unusual series of events began one
day in May while Joe
was working at a
Salvation Army lot next
to a highway overpass
and the Burlington
Northern Santa Fe
railroad tracks. The sack
containing the money
fell off the back of a
Brinks armored truck
as it pulled away from
a red light in Fresno.
When Joe saw the bag
in the street he thought
it might have fallen out
as the truck crossed the tracks.
He decided to explore. He
grabbed a broom and garbage
pail, then began cleaning the curb.
He made his way to the bag.
"I picked up the bag," Joe says.
"I saw twenties and hundreds. The
whole thing was full of money."
Joe hauled the sack to the trailer
he uses as headquarters for his
maintenance chores." I started cry-
ing and shaking. Everything was
going through my mind -- the good
devil/bad devil thing. What to do?"
Once he got over the initial shock
of finding $120,000, he thought
about how others might be affected.
"I thought that the money might be
deposits by businesses and the loss
might trickle down to impact peo-
ple's jobs," he says. Then he thought
of the imminent arrival of his fourth
grandchild. "I asked, `What would
I want her to think of me?' That
made up my mind right there. I got
on my radio and called my boss.
`Hey, I found a bag of money.'"
Joe was in the fourth month as
a client living at the
Army's Fresno Cen-
ter when faced with
this moment of deci-
sion. The changes he
has undergone after
signing up for the six
month program have
awakened something
in him. "I am here for
a reason, and I am
finding that God is
the reason I'm here.
He's got a higher
purpose for me. I
am just trying to
follow His will.
God's will be done, you know."
Joe graduated from the program
last month. "He's a hard worker,
and has applied himself well to the
program, and when he graduates
from here he will be looking for a
job," says Kayo Loveless, director of
the Army's rehabilitation program.
"He's a good man, a good worker
and he's clean, and he's honest," says
his wife. "This is a new start for us."
The Brinks Company gave
Joe Cornell a $5,000 reward and
made a separate $5,000 donation
to The Salvation Army. The com-
pany is grateful to Joe and has
corrected its security breach.
Search "Joe Cornell" at www.cnn.com
for further video on his story. Source
article by George Hostetter in the
Fresno Bee www.fresnobee.com.
Excerpted by permission.
W
hat went through Joe Cornell's mind when he found a sack
of cash in the road? He might have thought it was his lucky
day, that his efforts to get clean of his meth addiction by
entering the Salvation Army rehabilitation center in Fresno, California,
meant that the stars were finally aligned in his favor, and this fi nd
would help alleviate the debt that weighed Joe and his wife down.
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