efrem graham has the story. >> reporter: call it lin sanity, no. 17 jeremy lin has new york nicks fans cheering again. >> drive and! >> the new york phenomenon crew up in california. graduated from harvard and first taiwanees decent in nba. >> he is headline news, tv, internet, radio stations, he is huge. >> playing the game is a dream come true for a 23 year old. >> god is faithful and we are trying to enjoy everything right now. >> at 6 foot 3, new nba player still sleeps on his brother's couch in new york. he went undrafted until the coach gave him a shot. >> he is a solid guy. he was the same guy coming here early and fighting for a 10-day contract. >> lin has a guaranteed contract but a hard that remained as humble as it was before the lin sanity. >> have faith in whatever circumstances i am going through and grow as a person and learn and become tougher and at the same time grow in my relationship with god. that is what i try to focus on. >> efrem graham, cbn news. >> amazing. >> i have been talking to my friends in taiwan through facebook. all the postings from the facebook folk

efrem graham has the story. >> reporter: the 32-year-old woman was working with this aid group. she attended valley forge christian college outside philadelphia. she felt the call to africa after student teaching in nairobi. >> she could hardly talk about africa without tears in her eyes. >> her brother, stephen said she understood the risks. >> a local tried to get at them and all this information that shouldn't been and they were susceptible. >> pirates kidnapped her in october. the prayers were answered when navy seals swooped in for the rescue. >> they are so overwhelmed she is all right. >> knowing she is safe is a weight off all of our shoulders and answer to our prayers. >> she would continue to pray for them and try to bring them to the lord rather than leave. i am sure if anything, her faith sustained her. >> she loves kids. she just loves to help people. that is the reason she was over there just to help. >> jessica's family is grateful to the men who risked their lives to save jessica. >> they are willing to sacrifice their life for my sister. >> the men that risked t

efrem graham reports on this growing concept of micro finance. >> reporter: breathtaking beaches lure millions to the dominican republic. >> you have a reality of people with a lot of worth and suv vehicles. that is not the worth of 9.5 million dominicans. >> some of that 60 percent live in poor communities where jobs are nearly impossible to find. then there are areas of the dominican republic built on the sugar cane. communities known as the haitian batay community. >> many don't have documents. even though they might have been born, they are not citizens of the dominican republic. thought of going to haiti isn't great. >> that can easily lead to hopelessness, so many people living on little more than a dollar a day. >> the global church, we have all we need to see a tremendous impact. now is a key time to get involved in bringing the hope of christ to communities like this. >> peter greer writes about this in his book, the poor will be glad, it is a guide to turning the poorest into entrepreneurs, the concept is called micro finance. >> businesses that are self-employment for someo