Meet Jeff Stone. Home in Fort Lauderdale for a brief missions respite. Nothing about Jeff’s warm demeanor and clean-cut appearance give any hint of the life that he once lived back in Las Vegas. However, once Jeff sits down and begins to open up, he tells an intriguing and powerful story of his transformation from crystal meth addict to Christian missionary. Jeff begins, “As a young boy, my dad would bring me along to his baseball games where most of the guys were drunk most of the time. From an early age I saw alcohol as a normal part of […]

Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, author of 18 books, was a Romanian Christian Minister of Jewish descent who had the misfortune of growing up during a time of severe anti-Semitism in Communist Romania. Pastor Wurmbrand had publicly declared that Christianity and Communism were incompatible, and thus Pastor Wurmbrand was tortured mercilessly and imprisoned for 14 years for his beliefs; his wife Sabina was imprisoned for three years. One of the many trials he had to endure during this time period was spending three of those years in solitary confinement in a cell 12 feet underground, with no light. He slept during the […]

The Good News recently caught up with 18 year old Madison Baczewski, the youngest Freedom Climber, who also happens to be a South Florida native. Counting down the days until January 11, here is what Madison had to say about the upcoming Freedom Climb: The Good News (TGN):  Will you tell us a little bit about yourself first? Madison Baczewski (MB): I’m 18 years old, the youngest of the climbers, and I’m a dually enrolled student at Palm Beach Atlantic University. I want to pursue degrees in Nursing and Cross Cultural Studies. God has created within me a heart to […]

The sky seems to be significantly darker these days. Global turmoil shouts at us with war, natural disasters, economic failure, and far too much injustice. Women and children are being sold over and over again as commodities in nearly every nation and the world seems to sit strangely idle… as if it’s just mere media hype and will go away if we pretend it’s not really there. Closer to home, we’re facing foreclosures, struggling to put gas in the car and wondering if the next hurricane is headed our way. Even on America’s free soil, our own women and children […]

Lately, News has been swirling about certain American government officials trying to serve up yet another land for peace deal between the Palestinians and Israelis. Capturing the world’s attention, this concept has been an ongoing process for years and will probably continue until Israel cedes to all of the conditions. During the Camp David Accords in 1978, Menachem Begin, the sixth Israeli Prime Minister, met with Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat at the White House, along with American President Jimmy Carter. After much negotiation, a Peace Treaty was signed between Israel and Egypt with numerous main objectives: Israel ceding the […]