The new site and new chat room have been a great blessing and a big success. Many friends have come back to visit and keep tabs on some of the children currently being treated at St Jude. Some of the parents of the children have been coming by to visit in the room, share prayer request with us and pray with us. It has been wonderful to have purpose and direction again.
For all of the marathon team members there are some updates on the organization of the team. Those of us that have worked on it to organize it are getting geared up to get it kicked off again. At this time, the only info I have is that registration will begin in late spring. As some of you found out last year...there is a limit and it does fill up. It is predicted due to the way it filled up last year, that people will not wait this year to register, but will register as soon as possible to ensure they get in. So I suggest that if you want to participate that you do not hesitate to get registered as soon as it opens.
There will be a few changes this year... Our team was formed and we were all brought together because of Ethan. We hope that we have honored him and his memory by being Team Ethan. He will always be a part of this team but we would like to include other patients too. Not everyone has the opportunity to organize their own personal team. We want to share and include others in this opportunity to give back to St Jude. We will be using the name TEAM BELIEVE now. Our goal is to honor a different patient each year. We will have a design on our shirt where we will add a new name each year. Names from the past will remain as part of the design. So therefore, Ethan will always be a part of us.
This year we will be running for Mary Kate Rushing. When I first ask her if we could have our team run in her name, she was so excited. I wish you could have seen her face and her eyes when she was asked. I ask her if she would come up with a design that she wanted on her shirt, this too excited her very much. As most of you know, Mary Kate lost her battle to leukemia one week ago. She was working on her design for the shirt, her mom will proudly finish it for her, she knows what Mary Kate wanted. We will proudly walk in loving memory of Mary Kate. Regina, her mom, and her sister Alyson will be joining us along with other family members too. If you are not familiar with Mary Kate you can read her caringbridge site at caringbridge.org/visit/marykaterushing
The plans for now are to keep with our tradition of events from the past two years. I will set up hotel accommodations for everyone needing a room, we will have our dinner on Friday evening the night before the big day, then participate in the events of the morning downtown. Again on Saturday evening after the marathon, everyone is invited out to my house to hang out, comfort our aching feet, and eat some good ole Memphis BBQ! This has proved to be one of the highlights of the weekend. We can just sit around and really get to know each other and visit. I am not sure at this point if there will be another tour of the hospital or not.
THIS WILL BE THE LAST POST ON THIS BLOG. ALL FUTURE POST WITH INFO REGARDING THE MARATHON WILL BE ON THE NEW BLOG PAGE. www.believeprayerworks.blogspot.com
I hope to see you all on the new blog, this year will be a great experience once again.
Thank you for all of your love and support for this wonderful hospital.
Mardecia
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Hello Team Members
I want to let you guys know that this site will be closing soon, we have a brand new site now that is already up and running. This site will be used to following kids going through treatments so that we can pray for them, encourage them with comments on their web pages and do whatever we can do to continue the work that was started all because of one precious little baby boy, Ethan. This group came together, and has made a decision to stay together and stay focused on trying to do our part to help find a cure. We have done a great job the past two years participating in the St Jude Marathon. We will continue to participate as a team and do what we can to raise awareness and money needed to fund the research. We don't want to let down, on what we started. There are so many other children out there fighting the same beast as Ethan did, and we want to work to try to stop this.
Please visit our new site. There will be updates on the kids we have been following, some of the ones that I visit with while they are patients here at St Jude, but this site is not limited to only children at St Jude. Please visit, leave a comment if you have a specific prayer request or know of someone needing our prayers. There are links on the page to most of the kids we post information on. I will only post the link to a child's caringbridge site if I have written permission from their parent. So I am happy to add anyone to the list, but I will need permission before doing so.
Another feature of the new site, the chat room that was located on Ethan's page that Ben hosted has been closed down, however a new chat room is up and running on the new site. Feel free to come in a join us, for those of you who have been in Memphis for the marathon, you know this group is like family. We welcome new people to join us. We do ask, because of the topic of our site, Support for families who have a child fighting cancer, we feel it appropriate for an age limit of 18+ in the chat room. This is a Christian based chat room, general visiting and praying together, but at times in a child's fight with cancer, it can be very difficult for younger teens to comprehend and understand what these children and their families are going through. With the chat room that we had before, there were at times issues with this, so we ask that only 18+ join the room. Thank you for cooperation with this.
When we get started with plans for this years marathon, all of the info that was posted on this site, will be on the new site. I think registration begins in May so we will get cranked up with it pretty soon. There will be some changes this year, so stay posted.
Ok, didn't mean for this post to be so long... so for the new site
believeprayerworks.blogspot.com
Thank you, come visit the new site. The chat room is located at the bottom of the page, it is already loaded on the page, so you just sign in and connect. Easy!!!
Believe - Prayer Works!
I want to let you guys know that this site will be closing soon, we have a brand new site now that is already up and running. This site will be used to following kids going through treatments so that we can pray for them, encourage them with comments on their web pages and do whatever we can do to continue the work that was started all because of one precious little baby boy, Ethan. This group came together, and has made a decision to stay together and stay focused on trying to do our part to help find a cure. We have done a great job the past two years participating in the St Jude Marathon. We will continue to participate as a team and do what we can to raise awareness and money needed to fund the research. We don't want to let down, on what we started. There are so many other children out there fighting the same beast as Ethan did, and we want to work to try to stop this.
Please visit our new site. There will be updates on the kids we have been following, some of the ones that I visit with while they are patients here at St Jude, but this site is not limited to only children at St Jude. Please visit, leave a comment if you have a specific prayer request or know of someone needing our prayers. There are links on the page to most of the kids we post information on. I will only post the link to a child's caringbridge site if I have written permission from their parent. So I am happy to add anyone to the list, but I will need permission before doing so.
Another feature of the new site, the chat room that was located on Ethan's page that Ben hosted has been closed down, however a new chat room is up and running on the new site. Feel free to come in a join us, for those of you who have been in Memphis for the marathon, you know this group is like family. We welcome new people to join us. We do ask, because of the topic of our site, Support for families who have a child fighting cancer, we feel it appropriate for an age limit of 18+ in the chat room. This is a Christian based chat room, general visiting and praying together, but at times in a child's fight with cancer, it can be very difficult for younger teens to comprehend and understand what these children and their families are going through. With the chat room that we had before, there were at times issues with this, so we ask that only 18+ join the room. Thank you for cooperation with this.
When we get started with plans for this years marathon, all of the info that was posted on this site, will be on the new site. I think registration begins in May so we will get cranked up with it pretty soon. There will be some changes this year, so stay posted.
Ok, didn't mean for this post to be so long... so for the new site
believeprayerworks.blogspot.com
Thank you, come visit the new site. The chat room is located at the bottom of the page, it is already loaded on the page, so you just sign in and connect. Easy!!!
Believe - Prayer Works!
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