Unfortunately, many may never get the long-awaited, encouraging call stating that a suitable donor organ – and a second chance of life – has been found.

In 1992, my wife, Carol, was diagnosed with hyper-tense kidneys: high blood pressure caused by poor kidney function, which was made worse by her high blood pressure.

When Brother Mark Nolf, New Bethlehem Lodge No. 522, signed up to be an organ donor as a teenager, he never imagined that he would one day be the recipient of a life-saving organ.

As a business owner; Past Potentate, Shrine Circus and Rodeo Chairman, LuLu Shrine; and incoming Junior Warden, Lodge No. 2, Philadelphia, Brother Doug “Finky” Fink isn’t afraid of a little hard work. But his true calling is one of the hardest of all.