Before the accident, “I had a lot of issues,” says Smith, 18, who was adopted as an infant from Guatemala by his parents Joyce, a homemaker, and Brian, 65, a retired journalist.

Doctors had told Joyce and Brian, his adoptive father, that John would likely never regain neurological function. John was awake and answering questions within 48 hours of his rescue.

Movies; The Shocking True ... John Smith was adopted as a baby by Brian and Joyce Smith of St. Charles, Missouri, ... The story that would become Breakthrough began on a January day in 2015.

The ordeal also shaped Smith’s perspective as a mom. “I’ve had to learn to let go,” she says of John, now 18, whom she adopted as an infant from Guatemala with her husband Brian, 65, after ...

The morning of January 19, 2015 began for Joyce Smith like any other. Her 14-year-old son John, adopted by Joyce and her husband Brian from Guatemala when he was just an infant, had spent the ...

Breakthrough, out April 17, ... out April 17, tells the incredible true story of a mother named Joyce Smith (Metz) ... Brian, had frequently made mission trips to Latin America and decided that, ...

Recounting an actual near-drowning incident in 2015, this Christian drama peddles miracles and is genuinely moving (at times).

When he was 14, Smith drowned in Lake Saint Louis and was dead for nearly an hour. According to reports at the time, CPR was performed 27 minutes to no avail. Then the youth's mother, Joyce Smith ...