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!