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What do you think of when you hear the word missionary? Tremendous sacrifice? Religious extremism? Isolation in the wilderness of a far off land? In this episode of the Visionaries you will meet a young missionary couple serving in Africa - a couple who will change every stereotype you ever had about missionaries.

This story will inspire hope in the millions of families struggling with a disease that will cost America $200 billion dollars in 2012. As staggering as this number is, it does not account for the unpaid care 15 million family members are providing.

Finding a safe, clean and affordable home is a challenge for many people. For senior citizens, adults with disabilities and working families, it is often a nearly impossible task. In Oakland, California, what started in 1989 as a local effort to attract investors to a severely distressed city has become a way to address the issue of affordable housing nationwide.

On May 12, 1997, Deborah Daw Heffernan felt her heart explode. At the age of 44 and in the middle of her weekly yoga class, she was having a massive heart attack. Deborah is alive today only because of medical technology and research supported by groups like the NASPE-Heart Rhythm Society.

John Thompson is beginning a new life with Rangeley, after being paralyzed in a motorcycle accident; Rangeley is a yellow Labrador retriever, a highly skilled service dog, and John's faithful companion.

When two Wisconsin women met for lunch in 1977, mental illness was something to be whispered about. One woman was angry, the other, terrified. Each had a son with schizophrenia.

In this hour-long special, Visionaries takes you to China to tell the story of how a tiny non-profit organization, National Committee on United States-China Relations, has played a critical role in bringing two of the most powerful nations in the world together in a stunning array of programs that span 45 years.

In this hour-long special, Visionaries takes you to China to tell the story of how a tiny non-profit organization, National Committee on United States-China Relations, has played a critical role in bringing two of the most powerful nations in the world together in a stunning array of programs that span 45 years.

In modern society, millions of people have little voice or power in an economy increasingly controlled by big corporations. But, all across the country, in big cities and small towns, a remarkable group of people are committed to the idea that the law can be a tool for empowering consumers and advancing economic justice.

Visionaries travels around the world to explore a 100-year-old way of doing business that could address some of the biggest social issues of our time, In the first part of our one-hour special on the National Cooperative Business Association we highlight four remarkably different co-ops that are having a profound impact.