A Little Boy with Big Impact

This story was produced in partnership with Facebook Stories. Submit your own Facebook story here. --- Last month, our lives changed forever just a few days before my son Chad's fourth birthday. Chad was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor known as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma or DIPG. There are very few treatment options and an extremely low survival rate. That night after we got the news, I couldn't sleep. I was up all night thinking of Chad and our family, and praying for the best. By the time the sun came up, God had put it on my heart to spread Chad's story. The more people we had praying for Chad, the better. And on top of that, we needed to raise awareness about pediatric cancer, specifically brain tumors, and the pathetic lack of funding for this kind of research. So early that morning, I went on Facebook and asked my friends to pray for a miracle and to share Chad's story. That simple action has had a greater impact than I ever could have imagined. We received an outpouring of support from friends, even those I hadn't heard from in 25 years. People started to post about Chad to their own networks, and soon I was getting messages and friend requests from strangers who wanted to help our family. My friend Mandy started a public Facebook Page, Pray for Chad Carr, so that people could show their support and make Chad's story go viral. Hundreds and then thousands of people liked the Page, and every day more people wrote that they were praying for us. We h...
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