Lisa Scarbrough saw a need and decided to do something about it. Even with having major surgery a few weeks prior, she spent the time while she was recovering, organizing donations of local businesses and getting volunteers to donate their time for the Stewart family in Savannah. Cabell Stewart, at the age of six months had a heart transplant. A couple months before his 2nd birthday he was diagnosed with Autism. For nearly two years, Brad and Amy Stewart have been living life in and out of hospitals with little time for anything else. The Stewart family was hoping to be the family chosen for an upcoming segment for the Extreme Home Makeover, but were not; enter Lisa Scarbrough. Lisa decided that she would create an Extreme Christmas Makeover for the Stewarts. An army of tradesmen did needed repairs and updating while landscapers toiled outside. The cleaning crew and decorators worked their magic indoors.
Lisa convinced me that The Kindness Bus Tour should remain in Savannah for another week to have us be the “Move that Bus” bus. A community came together to give this home a makeover in two days time. Brad and Amy have had very little time to pay attention to their home and with this Extreme Christmas Makeover, transformed their ranch-style home into a Christmas showcase home. I was proud to play a small part in this “best Christmas wish ever.”
Please help us spread our message of a Goal of Kindness to schoolchildren across the country. Your donations are crucial to making this a reality.
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One Million Acts Of Kindness
PO Box 770054
Lakewood, OH 44107
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Bogart is my travel companion on The Kindness Bus Tour for the next ten years. We will be on the road traveling to campuses across the country. Bogart is a eight year old Boston Terrier. He is a great people dog... he loves meeting new people. I am Bogart's fourth owner in his short 8 years of life... Not because of him but because his three previous owner's lifestyles changed after they took him in... Lucky for me!! Bogart is the luckiest, most spoiled dog on the face of the earth. He loves the bus and he loves to travel. Please come and visit him when we are on your campus.
The Blue Bird Corporation donated this amazing bus to One Million Acts of Kindness, allowing us the continue this initiative. It has been painted to closely resemble the original Kindness Bus. It will last well beyond the ten years of this mission. A very big thank you to Blue Bird from Bob Votruba and Bogart too!!
The original Kindness bus has been donated to a professor at Virginia Tech who will use it on campus and at schools in the Blacksburg area. The Kindness Bus will continue to inspire and comfort residents, students and visitors in that area for years to come.
One Million Acts Of Kindness is a goal. A goal for each person to individually perform One Million Acts Of Kindness in their life. Can you imagine a greater goal for one's life? It is a constant mind-set of kindness every day of your life for the next fifty-five years. Doing for others and kindness in your heart for everyone. It is my wish that you will dedicate your life to a charity... finding the passion in your heart for something or someone in need.
As a father of three college age kids I am concerned for the world in which all kids will live. A great way to create a safer, more caring world is for everyone to start their lifetime goal of One Million Acts Of Kindness. So I bought a bus, had about sixty family members, friends and neighbors help paint it and began a ten year journey with my Boston Terrier, Bogart, to college campuses across the country hoping to convince as many of you as possible about this much needed movement for this world. I love you guys too much to sit back and not do anything about this. Let's start a kindness movement in this country today to change the direction this world is headed!! You are the change that this world needs.
What a wonderful story!!! I wish I could have been there (with a paint brush).