More than 100,000 cards from across the world have been pouring into the small town of Neola — all for one 12-year-old boy.

This sixth grader, “Mighty Max” Low, has sparked a viral phenomenon by his simple wish to receive 1,000,000 cards in the mail.

Max was diagnosed with leukemia in 2004 and was recently readmitted into the Children’s Hospital and Medical Center on Jan. 21 in Omaha.

Max received a bone marrow transplant from his father Thursday. Throughout this difficult situation the Low family has received support from not only their community, but from people across the nation and around the world.

Rachel Mullen, of Honolulu, Hawaii, heard about Max when his Facebook group showed up on her news feed.

“A bunch of my friends had joined and I decided to write a letter because I think his goal is awesome,” she said. “By taking five minutes out of my day to write a letter, I helped him get one step closer to his goal.”

Some supporters of Max wrote to him because they can empathize with his situation.

“Part of the reason I did this was because I had a childhood friend named Melody who had leukemia. She made it to 21 before she lost her battle,” said Denise Kenney of Canyon, Texas.

Edana Carlson, an ISU alumna, heard about Max through Facebook and was moved to write to him because she had also struggled with health problems as a child.

“All you can do is think of the positive things and hope that tomorrow will be better,” Carlson said. “I think the best part is that out of all the wishes he could have asked for, he only wanted a card, a million cards. That alone is proof that a child’s heart is more pure than anything else in this universe.”

Some are using Max’s goal to teach their children about giving.

Katie Wheeler, a children’s librarian in Exira, had the children at her weekly story time write cards for Max.

“The children couldn’t wait to help out,” Wheeler said. “The reason that I decided to do it was that I have children of my own. If they were sick and that was their wish, I would want others to help make them happy as well.”

Schools, girl scout troops, and churches in the Ames community have been helping Max achieve his goal as well.

Cornerstone Church’s children’s ministry, D6, recently had all the children in the ministry write cards for Max.

“I thought it was good for our kids to write to Max to help develop empathy and allow them to extend comfort to someone near their age,” said Sarah Day, Cornerstone’s Children’s Ministry coordinator. “It was neat to see the way the older kids especially used what they’ve been learning to encourage Max.”

Stephanie Johnson, senior in early childhood education, learned about Max when she was leading a small group at D6.

Johnson, ISU cheerleader, decided to send a card from the entire ISU cheerleading team.

In the past seven days, Max has received almost 50,000 cards, putting his current card total at 135,355. The results from Low’s bone marrow transplant are not yet determined, but according to his Facebook page the next six to eight weeks will be crucial to his recovery.