✩ Fund Launch Campaign November 1 - 30, 2024 ✩
For every cancer patient to receive the hope of Christ through a daily devotion.
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For every cancer patient to receive the hope of Christ through a daily devotion. †
The Michael “David” Gira Legacy Fund is dedicated to perpetuating David’s devotionals for future generations.
The need David wanted to fill:
18 million people in the US with cancer diagnosis x 365 days = a need for 6.5 billion touch points each year for cancer patients.
David's devotional Dancing with Disease has received 472 views in the first 6 months.
From diagnosis until a few weeks before his death, David continued to write in response to his calling.
“David looked at his writing as his calling. As an ordained elder of the Methodist church, he had ministered to others with cancer - mother-in-law, parishioners, friends - but now he had a different direction ordained by God. Writing about God and cancer was not where he thought he would be but he accepted it with grace, kindness, and dignity.”
Michael “David” Gira Legacy Fund Launch Campaign Fund Goal - $50,000
Too often we lose family and friends with no way to pay forward the kindness they shared with us. We all feel the loss of David yet his beautiful words can continue to touch lives as he always intended.
David’s not done touching cancer patients for Christ and neither are we.
Donate today!
Goals of the Michael “David” Gira Legacy Fund…
5 million views of Inside the Cancer Journey devotional project in 10 years.
Printed version of Inside the Cancer Journey devotional project.
Develop David’s Lenten series of cancer devotionals into a cancer Bible Study for anyone to enjoy including Cancer Companions Bible Study Groups nationwide.
David and the Inside the Cancer Journey 365 Day Devotional Project
David wrote 67 beautiful cancer devotionals currently being provided for free by text, email, and search by topic/author online. How? David's devotions are part of a 365 day cancer devotional project called Inside the Cancer Journey. Like David, all 13 devotional authors write from their experience of Christ showing up in the midst of cancer. This God inspired project is sponsored by Cancer Companions. Learn more here.
The Gira family wants you to know…
“Our family, all generations, are involved in building this legacy fund just as we were involved in David’s treatment, life, and journey with not just cancer. We gave hope to him and despite the treatments, the procedures, and the hospitalizations, he wrote his therapeutic words and writings while he was still strengthening his own faith during his cancer journey.
We want to be sure this his writings will continue to help cancer patients for years to come.”
David’s Cancer Writings’ Timeline
2017 - David is diagnosed with lung cancer.
2021 - David publishes his book How Cancer Cured Me, a 177-page autobiography about his experience with cancer and God. Learn more here.
June 2021 - David joins Cancer Companions Author team. Begins writing his 67 Inside the Cancer Journey devotions. Learn more here.
January 2024 - Inside the Cancer Journey project launched (including all 67 of David’s devotionals)
August 2024 - Inside the Cancer Journey devotionals had been viewed 87,046 times
January 2034 - Ten year goal to have 5 million total views!
As grand as this goal - it will just begin to touch the need.
God is on the move with David’s legacy.
Come join him!
It’s easy to support the David Gira Legacy Fund!
Contributors receive:
FREE download of David’s collection of devotionals
Quarterly e-newsletter to show you where your money is going.
All contributions will be received by Cancer Companions (501c3 nonprofit) and placed in a specified fund for the express purpose and goals of the David Gira Legacy Fund. These funds will be reviewed annually by Amy Gira, David’s wife.
Pay it forward into the lives of cancer patients, the clarity, kindness, and unbendable hope in Christ which David radiated to all of us who knew him and read his words.
Need to learn more?
Contact Karen Tripp, Executive Director and Founder or Cancer Companions:
karen@cancercompanions.org
(314) 814-0044
Quote from David’s Parents
As a young man, Michael David Gira, Jr. received his calling from God to use his considerable writing skills to follow the Lord and bring the hearts of people closer to him. He worked with his father in the family business during that time and began using his middle name, David, to avoid all the Old Mike and Young Mike confusion at work. He continued to go by David Gira as he navigated his spiritual journey at Duke Divinity School, but to his old friends and family he has always remained Michael, as a loving son, husband, brother, and father. We are pleased that his writings will continue his work for the Lord in years to come.
“Most of us recognize the need for hope…not just to have it once in a blue moon but every day. Every day. Whether it’s 5 minutes or longer to just be able to hear a word of encouragement, promise, healing, hope. We have that as Christians. We know that He is the hope of the world…
And we can share that with all the people who are dealing with cancer every day. And we need to. It’s so desperate. There is a hunger.”
— David Gira