Good News Notes: “A Bedford boy who was fighting for his life last year has received a new hero heart. At just 2-years-old, Wyatt Lowe has already lived a life that many kids his age can’t imagine. He was born with congenital heart disease, a very complex heart, no spleen and internal organs that aren’t arranged…
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Living Well: New Technology helps Baptist Health treat chronic pain
Good News Notes: “The CDC says 20% of all adults have suffered from chronic pain sometime within the last three months. One in three people over age 65 struggle with it regularly. A breakthrough technology at Baptist Health is allowing people with chronic pain the ability to feel better again. 80-year-old Robert Kelly of Clarendon…
Utah nonprofit Eye Care 4 Kids donates eyeglasses to 400,000th child
Good News Notes: “Santi Morales, 9, was excited to get new glasses that looked “like a volcano.” “Just on the bottom of it, it’s like yellowish,” he said, describing the way the color of his new glasses melts from red to yellow. He said they’ll help him see better at school. Utah-based nonprofit Eye Care…
He Lost Nearly Everything To Addiction. Then An Arrest Changed His Life
Good News Notes: “Heroin started rewiring and taking control of Will’s brain in the early 2000s, as he turned 40. “Back then, if you used drugs people didn’t want anything to do with you,” Will recalls. “People gave up on me.” Will lost almost everything: jobs, his driver’s license, his car, his marriage and his…
After finding a Christmas wish list tied to a balloon, this man drove hundreds of miles to make two little girls’ dreams come true
Good News Notes: “Twin sisters received a late Christmas gift from a stranger almost 650 miles away after he found a holiday wish list tied to a balloon. In December, Leticia Flores-Gonzalez had her 4-year-olds, Luna and Gianella Gonzalez, tie their lists to balloons and release them into the sky above their home in Liberal,…
Utah teen’s viral letter about her dad’s alcoholism
Good News Notes: “Preslee Scott spent more than one afternoon in her early teen years picking up her dad’s empty beer cans and dumping them in the outside trash can after he’d fallen asleep on the couch. So in December, when the Utah teen was asked by her 10th-grade English teacher to write an essay…
Greenville: ‘God bless you all,’ Aussie thanks mystery giver for pay-it-forward meal
Good News Notes: “That fact became evident this week when a randomly placed sticky note at a restaurant on the other side of the world filled the belly of a man with disabilities and touched the heart of the city of Greenville. It all started in Melbourne, Australia, at a restaurant called The Soup Place. The restaurant…
Man turns dark past of homelessness into opportunity to serve the homeless
Good News Notes: “A San Antonio man is turning his dark past of homelessness into an opportunity to motivate and inspire others in the homeless community. Lee Edwards, 52, is the founder of New Day, New Way, a nonprofit organization. “It is a way that I think I could give back to people who need…
Congregation resurrects an old Roanoke church building into a new community and worship center
Good News Notes: “When the Rev. Charles Wilson Jr. was contemplating a move to Roanoke about four years ago, the first place he was taken on a tour of the city was the former Villa Heights Baptist Church. Now the pastor is working to resurrect the facility in northwest Roanoke. But Wilson’s goal is not…
John Tesh recalls how faith gave him hope during cancer battle: ‘I was begging God for healing’
Good News Notes: “The former “Entertainment Tonight” co-host told Fox News he has always relied on the Bible to provide him comfort during tough times. And the 68-year-old is all too familiar with facing personal obstacles in his life. In 2015, Tesh was diagnosed with a rare form of prostate cancer and given only 18 months to…