Breaking Good News · Tuesday 13 October 2026
Tuesday 13 October 2026 · 3:57
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A volunteer who has held 540 babies, three people found on the open sea off Kiribati, two sisters who met on a softball field, students who shelter the homeless, and a nurse who would not hate.
Five stories of people who looked out for one another: in a hospital nursery, on the open sea, on a softball field, in a church basement, and in a prison cell a century ago.
Grandpa Terry's warm arms
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Terry Berggren is a volunteer in a hospital's intensive care unit for newborn babies. When parents cannot be at the bedside, he holds the little ones and rocks them.
He has now held more than five hundred and forty babies, and the hospital has given him its Humanitarian Award. Nurses say a human touch helps a baby grow calmer and steadier. Families remember the man in the rocking chair long after they go home.
"And embracing them, and laying his hands upon them, he blessed them." (Mark 10:16, The Fellowship Bible)
Sources: KSHB 41 Kansas City; KAKE News (Wichita).
Found on the open sea
Tarawa, Kiribati
On the seventh of October, a small boat with three people aboard went missing between the island of Abaiang and Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati.
Four days later, a crew of the Royal New Zealand Air Force spotted the little white boat on the ocean. They kept watch from the sky until a vessel could reach it and bring all three people to safety. Neighbours across thousands of kilometres of sea, looking out for one another.
"And they are glad, because they are quiet; and he guides them to their desired haven." (Psalm 106 (107):30, The Fellowship Bible)
Sources: 1News (TVNZ); Stuff; New Zealand Defence Force statement.
Two sisters, one jersey number
Montana, United States
Samantha Rensvold and Kyann Dean were adopted as babies by two different families, and grew up about four hundred miles apart.
Then, at a softball tournament, a teammate said to Samantha: she looks just like you. The families compared notes, and they matched. The girls were sisters. They even wore the same number, six. Samantha said it felt like part of her was complete.
"God settles the solitary in a house." (Psalm 67:7 (68:6), The Fellowship Bible)
Sources: The Daily Beast; Yahoo / AOL; Townhall; Good News Network.
Students who open their doors
Davis, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts
At the University of California, Davis, students run Aggie House, a home where fellow students without housing can stay for up to a year.
In Harvard Square, students run Y2Y, a shelter for young adults in a church basement. It was the first of its kind in the country, and it has been open since 2015. Guests and volunteers are almost the same age, and they meet as equals: a door, a bed, and a little dignity.
"I was a stranger, and you took me in." (Matthew 25:35, The Fellowship Bible)
Sources: Reasons to be Cheerful; Harvard Gazette; UC Davis Magazine; Good Good Good.
In honour of Edith Cavell
Brussels, Belgium, and Peterborough, England
Edith Cavell was an English nurse who helped build modern nursing in Belgium. When the First World War came, she cared for the wounded of both sides, friend and enemy alike, and she helped some two hundred soldiers escape to safety.
On the eve of her execution, the twelfth of October 1915, she said: "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone." Today, nurses all over the world still honour her name.
"Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13, The Fellowship Bible)
Sources: British Red Cross; History.com; cross-checked with encyclopaedia references.
Think in light. Speak in truth. Act in love.
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