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Is it Illegal to Damage or Deface Coins? This is our frequently most asked question. If you have our Pennies from Heaven with a cross cut out of them, you may have been asked the same thing. Everyone has an opinion and there is a lot of misinformation on the web about this, so to clear this up we went directly to the source - The U.S Treasury, to get the answer. "Section 331 of Title 18 of the United States code provides criminal penalties for anyone who “fraudulently alters, defaces, m …

Headlines aren’t wrong: Americans are on track to spend a record $13.1 billion on Halloween in 2025—up from $11.6B in 2024 and topping the previous $12.2B record in 2023. Average spend is projected at $114.45 per person. Costumes lead the way (~$4.3B), followed by decorations (~$4.2B), candy (~$3.9B), and greeting cards (~$0.7B).1 How Did Halloween Start? Today, Halloween is almost entirely a secular American holiday, but its roots stretch back over 2,000 years to the Celtic D …

People need to hear the Gospel—to hear that God loves them, Christ died for them and that they can have eternal life. “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?” — Romans 10:13–14 However, sometimes fear can cripple us when it comes to sharing o …