<em>People</em> features exclusive story on Tim Tebow Foundation’s 5 year anniversary

In celebration of NFL quarterback Tim Tebow’s 28th birthday on Friday, PEOPLE Magazine has an exclusive story on the homepage of People.com.

Tim Tebow Foundation Celebrates 5 Years

The video features Tebow’s work around the world, helping orphaned children, inspiring those who are sick or have disabilities, and sometimes, saving lives (see the video at the end of this article). The Tim Tebow Foundation helps to fund the adoptions – 44 so far, with an additional one each month – of children with special needs.

The Foundation also started the “Night to Shine” just last year. On February 13, 2015, “44 host churches in 26 states and in three countries” hosted “more than 7,000 honored guests, all kings and queens of the prom.” The honored guests were people with disabilities – who many societies, including our own, reject and abort at high rates. Tebow spoke at the proms, telling the people that they were valuable and loved, most of all by the God who created and saves them.

Tebow and his mother, Pam, have publicly shared the story of how Pam was urged to abort Tim, her fifth and last child.

In Tebow’s autobiography, he writes:

Tim’s mother rejected abortion, and a worldwide star was born. In 2010, Focus on the Family aired a commercial during the Super Bowl, showing Tebow and his mother briefly speaking out for life. Viewers were directed to Focus on the Family’s website, where they could hear the full story.

Susan Wood was one pregnant woman who was watching the commercial, unsure of what she would do with her baby. She wrote:

Susan’s daughter, Avita Grace, is now four years old. She and her mother “do everything together.” Here is their story:

See the Little Girl Saved by the Tebow Super Bowl commercial

Susan says:

Just like Tim Tebow, each of us should seek to save, inspire, and aid more lives, every day. Our birthdays should serve as a reminder of the incredible blessing of life itself – and the gift of being born. May we work to make this a reality for many others.