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We would like to give a HUGE thank you to our youth pastor Tal for feeding both the JV and Varsity Girls basketball team!!❤️❤️ It is greatly appreciated!

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It’s Easter Sunday and death has been defeated, the tomb is empty & the power of the cross is stronger now than it ever has been.

We continue to miss Camp with every holiday, special occasion & family picture. But, we are so thankful to have this first Easter with our sweet Cager.

Happy Easter! Jesus is alive! ✝️🙌🏼

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Silly bunnies, Easter is for Jesus!

Long gone are the candy-filled eggs considered “prize” eggs! If it doesn’t have dollar bills, she’s on to the next one! 😝

Not really, she has fun no matter what they are and even loves the hard-boiled ones!

I’m so thankful she’s still young enough to enjoy the parts of holidays that just make you feel like a kid. And I’m thankful for neighbors and church friends that she can do these things with. Egg hunting by yourself at home isn’t nearly as much fun!

The chilly South Georgia weather isn’t going to stop us from having a beautiful Easter!

The story’s not over, friends! Wait for tomorrow! ✝️

#EasterEggHunt #BunnyEars #PrizeEggs #ChurchFriends #Neighbors #SouthGeorgia #SunnySkies #SaturdayFun

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What can I say?!?!🤷🏻‍♀️

We just love a good plaid print!

Love these two! So thankful that I get to call Brent, Izzy and Camp mine!

Jesus is our hope at Christmas and every day in between.

#FamilyChristmasPic #NoChristmasCardsThisYear #ChristmasAtChurch #maryDidYouKnow #ChristmasHope #LightOfTheWorld #CancerMama #FasterWayCoach #HealthHopeHealing #GriefJourney #HappyCamper #MissingCamp

Merry Christmas

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🍋Lots of Lemonade has been served throughout the month of September! 🍋

Thank you to each person, church, group & family that has hosted a lemonade stand to benefit Campground Ministries or any childhood cancer awareness organizations during September! Thank you for giving kids a heart for helping others!
Each person that has stepped up to 🎗GO GOLD🎗 has made a positive impact and helped spread the message of awareness! Together we are making steps toward finding a CURE!

#WhenLifeGivesYouLemons #LemonadeStand #GoGold #ChildhoodCancerAwareness #MoreThan4 #CureChildhoodCancer #CampgroundMinistries

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Proud of my girl playing the piano in church last night! Her Poppie is a good teacher and she’s learning a lot! I pray that she always wants to use her gifts and talents for Jesus!

#Piano #IzzieLizzie #Hymns #Worship

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Because He lives I can face tomorrow.
I’ve worn glasses since I was 5 and there’s no evidence that I will ever get rid of them. I have to choose to put them on every morning if I’m going to see the world around me. In this world, we make a choice in every situation. We choose how we will look it, how we will view ourselves and those we love in light of the situation. Unlike a medical prescription for glasses, we can choose our lenses in life. What kind of lenses are you choosing to look through in your life? Despair or hope? Easter is the day that gives us the lenses of hope.

Most mothers aren’t ending their Easter festivities at the cemetery, but I am. I have to choose to not look through the lenses of despair. When I visit Camp’s grave or do my best to walk through another holiday without him, I have to make sure I strap on my hope goggles. I have to CHOOSE to put them on. Easter is the day that gives me the assurance to know that when I stand in front of Camp’s grave, I’m looking at an empty grave just as Mary Magdalene looked at an empty tomb.

Camp joined Jesus in heaven at the moment that he took his last breath here on earth. Jesus defied death and the grave when he came out of the borrowed tomb and fulfilled His promise to us. Jesus’ tomb was a temporary grave & this world is our temporary home.

There aren’t any egg hunts or chocolate bunnies at the cemetery. There’s no prize eggs, matching pastel outfits or baskets full of goodies, but there is a promise of tomorrow. When I visit the grave of my precious 2 year old son, I see eternity. Every time I look at that granite slab, I remember the stone that was rolled away from Jesus’ tomb. Death will come for each of us, and so will eternity. We don’t get the choice rather we die or not, but we do get to choose where we will spend eternity. And while we wait on eternity, we choose the lenses we will use to look at our life.

Jesus gave His life so I could live, and so that I can have the hope of eternity. Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. It’s all because of Jesus I’m alive…physically, emotionally and spiritually. Happy Easter & Happy HOPE day! 🎗💙✝️ #CancerMom #MoreThan4 #HesAlive #ResurrectionD

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💙Each year, for the past 2 years, this night in particular has been hard. On the night of our annual patriotic service at church in 2016, I was dressed in my red, white and blue sitting in the emergency room. That afternoon I was dressed and ready to come perform, sing my solo, celebrate our freedom, enjoy the music and go home to my family. Instead, I was sitting in a hospital hearing the worst news of my life. I was hearing that my precious, innocent baby boy had a brain tumor. 🇺🇸
I was told to go home, pack a bag and get ready to fly to Memphis. In that instant my life turned upside down and everything I knew as normal in my life flew out the window of that jet plane.
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While Camp was in treatment at St. Jude, we met people from all over the world. I met Mothers that didn’t have the medical care or the freedoms that I have here in America. Each of those situations reminded me again how blessed I am to have the freedoms we have.
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Now, 2 years later, I’m dressed in my red, white and blue again wishing I had a little 4 year old boy in the congregation to worry about and make sure he was sitting still and quite while the performance went on. ♥️
Instead, I’m still a grieving mother that wishes that terrible night 2 years ago had never happened.
Now, more than ever, I’m thankful for my freedom. I’m thankful that I live in a country where I can share Jesus with those around me. I’m thankful that I can devote my life’s work to a ministry that I feel so passionately about. I’m thankful that I have the freedom to shake hands with and talk to elected officials about childhood cancer and the need for a cure. 🇺🇸
Freedom doesn’t come free, it comes at great cost. Ultimately because I have been forgiven and set free by the blood and sacrifice of Jesus, I will see Camp in heaven again one day.
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Thank you, Jesus, for your free gift of salvation that you offer to anyone who will receive. Thank you to the men and women who defend and protect our country each day to make sure we keep our freedoms in America. Today, and everyday, I’m thankful that I’m forgiven and free! ♥️🇺🇸💙 #MoreThan4 #ChildhoodCancerAwareness #CampgroundMinistries #FreedomIsNotFree

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☀️ Izzy’s summer has gotten off to a busy, but wonderful start...so far we’ve conquered Champ Camp, 2 Vacation Bible Schools, dance camp, a dance recital, blackberry picking, a few birthday parties, a few trips to the movies, a few sleepovers, and an anniversary dinner date with mom and dad! I love spending this time with her and she’s always sitting on go to try something new! I love her spirit and determination! She meets a new friend each place she goes and is constantly telling me about something new she’s learned! We are proud parents of this little firecracker! 💗
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#IzzieLizzie #SummerDays #DanceCamp #MakingMemories #MakesMamaProud #TinyDancer #VacationBibleSchool #ChampCamp #southGeorgiaSummer #WildBlackberries #HappyCamper #SummertimeFun #FunInTheSun

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Tonight was “favorite team” night at Vacation Bible School tonight! Mama represented team “Cure Cancer” and Izzy represented “Team Upward”! No matter what team shirt we wore, we are all on “Team Jesus”!
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My heart is so full because 2 of the 16 Kids in our 3rd grade class made public professions of faith tonight! They responded immediately to the invitation and got out of their seats to go to the front and pray! We prayed with them and talked with them and they spoke with such assurance about what Jesus was doing in their hearts!
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The joy I feel for these kids that have trusted Jesus with their life is unexplainable! I can only imagine the way the angels are rejoicing at this moment! I also imagine Camp is up there rejoicing alongside those angels as he watched his cousin, Ryder, and his best buddy Hayes give their life to Jesus!
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Even though I was raised in a Christian home and was at church every time the doors were open, I didn’t feel God tug on my heart during a regular Sunday service, it was during vacation Bible School at 6 years old! God reminds me of his goodness and restores the joy of my salvation each year when it’s time for VBS!
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If you’re working with kids at church, please be encouraged and know your labor is not in vain! God is building his kingdom and body of believers through each of these little children!
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So tonight, my heart is full and I’m so thankful for the ministry he has called our family to! We want to see a cure for cancer, but we especially want to see souls saved for Jesus! I know that because He began this good work in me, he will carry it out all the way to completion! Thank you, Jesus, for the privilege to serve you, you don’t need me, but you want me and love me! .
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#VacationBibleSchool #TeamCureCancer #CureRareCancer #CureChildhoodCancer #UpwardSports #FindACureWithCampground #GameOnVBS #SiloDistrictMarathon #silobration #Magnolia #TeamChip #SweatMemorialSelfies #ServingAtSMBC #AustynStrong #ChaseBraudasPrayerTeam #ForeverCampStrong #MoreThan4 #BoyersBeatCancer

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