Tonight

I've been meaning to write before now, but this week has just gotten away from me. We are having our annual party at Kosair Children's Hospital tonight after having to reschedule it due to construction on the unit. The kids' cancer center now has a new family room, and we get to use it for our party! I'm excited to see what's been done and to hang out and love on more families!

What I'm asking you all to do, of course, is pray! Some specific requests are as follows:

1. For the parents we will encounter and minister to at the party - for peace, comfort, hope, encouragement, and strength.

2. For the siblings - for peace, comfort, hope, encouragement, and strength.

3. For the children fighting cancer or other life-threatening illness - for peace, comfort, hope, encouragement, courage, and complete earthly healing.

4. For all involved in the medical care of these children - nurses, doctors, and other staff - for wisdom, guidance, discernment, compassion, and peace.

5. That all who encounter Break the Grey in some way will be blessed by the love and hope of Jesus Christ. Please pray that God would prepare their hearts even now to receive His message of hope and love, even in the face of devastating illness.

6. That God would continue to open doors as we go about making last minute plans and preparations, and as we throw the party; that God would bless us with opportunities to share the hope, comfort, healing, peace, and encouragement of Jesus Christ.

7. That all of our needs would be met - that God would provide enough parent gift baskets, sibling and patient bundles, and food to minister to each and every family that comes to the parties.

8. For the volunteers that will be serving at the party - that God would give us the words to say and the ears to listen; that everything that we say and do would be reflective of Christ in us, and His hope in their darkness.

9. For specific opportunities to share the gospel, and that we would have the courage to be bold and speak up.

10. That any and all glory, honor, and praise attributed to Break the Grey would be God's and God's alone.

 

Additionally, we have a few prayer requests for some of the individual families that we serve:

 

Please pray for Patrick. He is in treatment for relapsed leukemia, and his chemotherapy drugs have had some particularly vicious side effects lately. Please pray that the side effects would be minimized, that the cancer would remain in remission, and that God would provide his family with strength and endurance.

Please say a prayer of thanks for Emily! She recently had a check up and all of her counts are great! She is doing wonderful, and is almost one whole year since her bone marrow transplant (April 16)! 

Please pray for JP. JP has been in the hospital for so, so long and continues to be very sick. Please pray for wisdom for his medical team and all involved with his care. Please pray for peace, comfort, strength, endurance, encouragement, joy, and hope for his family.

Please pray for two of our newer families: Gisele and Nick. Gisele is in the midst of treatment right now for rhabdomyosarcoma, and is set to finish in June. Nick has multiple brain tumors and has been sent home on hospice. However, he seems to be making a miraculous recovery and stunning his medical team as he makes strides each day. Please pray for his complete earthly healing and for his family. 

 

As always, thank you so much for all of your prayers! They really do make a difference in what we do and in the lives of our families. 

Hoping, Believing, and Never Giving up,

Sarah