You did it! You carried my loved one through cancer treatment and now we are shouting your PRAISES! You covered them through every hardship, every pain and every fear. So now they have been declared cancer free!!

You know of the young mom that we adore who is now struggling with cancer. It feels so wrong in every way and yet we know that there is nothing beyond your domain.

Cancer can feel like a winter that keeps pushing back spring. Whether all your treatments are going as planned or it’s filled with delays, it’s easy to ask God, “When is this going to end?” You’re not doubting God’s existence or your salvation, but perhaps you wonder, “God? Are you paying attention?” “Are you really bigger than this cancer?”

Every student has one subject that’s always a struggle. For me, it’s math. Rarely would a math lesson go by that I didn’t need help, but asking for help is not easy. Before I am willing to ask a teacher for help, I ask myself these three questions:

I guess I’m like most women. I love getting flowers. It’s kind of silly, really. It’s not like flowers are good for anything. Yet, my grandmother told me that flowers are the most gracious of gifts because they don’t do anything except make you happy.

Our family plays in creeks. Other families have leisure pastimes like biking or camping or playing softball. My kids have grown up playing in creeks, I played in creeks and even my dad played in creeks. We have a creek-playing season, and we even have creek shoes. You can’t go out and buy creek shoes; they have to be the too-small pair of tennis shoes from last summer with your toe poking out of the top to really qualify.

Heavenly Father, Fill my days with more Christmas and less cancer. May the joys of the season bring me a new hope that is so strong the clouds of cancer in my thoughts disappear.

Lou Ann newly diagnosed with lung cancer saw a sign for a Cancer Companions Group. There she met Ken 5 year lung cancer survivor the Cancer Companion Facilitator.

Listen to Fearless by Jasmine Murray.

Whether you are 8, 18 or 28 when your parent is diagnosed with cancer, your world suddenly shifts. The questions of what to do, what to say and how to act affects not only the child but the parent too. At a time when instability is the norm, how do you maintain stability in the parent/child relationship?

Join Christian Music Artist, Matthew West, as he prays for cancer survivors.

Listen to I have This Hope by Tenth Avenue North.

Pastor Andrew Kasper leads us in prayer for those working in hospice and palliative care.

Rev. Scott Schmieding prays for all those who are dealing with digestive cancers.

Hear me Oh Lord, I hunger for you to have the test from this biopsy come back clean- completely cancer free. If there is any cancer in me now, tear it from my body and leave me cancer free until the end of time.

Listen to You Say by Lauren Daigle.

Join us as NFL Hall of Fame Star, Kurt Warner prays to find a cure for cancer.

Pastor of White Memorial Presbyterian, Christopher Edmonston, joins us to pray for those with leukemia and lymphoma.

“You find joy. Who doesn’t want to feel joyful? Who doesn’t want to feel hope? Who doesn’t want to feel connected? Cancer Companions gives you that.”

Join Steve Gruenwald, Director of Work and Wellness at Concordia Plans, as he prays for those dealing with anxiety on their cancer journey.