Positive news from our world from our regular columnists and guest contributors.
On January 12, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake devastated Haiti. 300,000 people were killed or injured and 1.6 million more were left homeless. The United Nations, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), and church groups rushed to help and discovered a shocking reality – the country’s own government had abandoned its people. The Good News-Paper Columnist BJ Hill recently ...
My daughter just got her hair cut and colored for “back-to-school” and it got me wondering about what sort of hairstyles we are going to see people wearing this fall. My daughter chose an “Emo” style (for those of you who haven’t heard of Emo, it’s an edgy style that I like to call “goth-lite”). ...
Northern Japan was recently racked by three terrible disasters: a 9.0 offshore earthquake, a seventy-foot tsunami, and an overwhelmed nuclear power plant run amok. I lived and taught English in this area for two years, and in some ways, it is still my home. I was accepted to the Japan Exchange and Training (JET) Programme ...
On January 12, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake devastated Haiti. 300,000 people were killed or injured and 1.6 million more were left homeless. The United Nations, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), and church groups rushed to help and discovered a shocking reality – the country’s own government had abandoned its people. TGNP Columnist BJ Hill recently traveled to ...
The last time I checked the statistics – 350 million plus users are on Facebook. By the time you read this that number will be even larger and growing! If you’re not using Facebook and other social media sites like Twitter and Youtube to promote your business you’re missing a huge marketing opportunity and likely ...
By Nicky Pilkington Unless you think wrinkled, leathery skin with brown spots is sexy you should limit your exposure to the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun. In addition to adversely affecting the appearance of your skin, overexposure to the sun can result in skin cancer. Despite the widespread message that people should limit the ...
Those crazy good-news ladies asked me to help out the paper by testing some personal products and reporting my opinion of them. Wouldn’t you know they gave me self-tanning lotions to try; three different kinds. Needless to say, I had to use them on three different areas of my body in order to compare the ...
The Good News Center is known for refreshing enthusiasm when it comes to God and his love. Take a minute to be honest with yourself; have you ever been sitting in Church and found it difficult to stay awake? Maybe you were awake but preoccupied with other thoughts and not listening! Now picture someone who ...
“Boobies Make Me Smile” “Save the Tatas” “Save A Life, Grope Your Wife” Though these T-shirts look like souvenirs from an adult entertainment trade show, it’s actually 5 a.m. on a Friday morning in October and I’m at the opening ceremonies of the Susan G. Komen Three Day Walk for the Cure. Over the next ...
Welcome to another issue of The Good News Paper. We have been pretty busy all summer so I haven’t gotten an article in for a while. Things have started to slow down now that the colder weather is finally here. The ground has started to freeze so it isn’t so muddy which is great. There ...
