Category Archives: Member Stories

That little girl there with a smile as big as a butterfly’s wings? That’s Becca Burgers. But not Becca Burgers the patient. Not Becca Burgers who has leukemia. It’s Becca Burgers the kid, beaming because she’s about to burst through the doors of the Children’s Healing Center. And simply play. Becca, 4, is just one […]

When Colin Bradley was diagnosed with leukemia at age age 11, he and his parents were immediately thrust into an inexplicable world they never saw coming, defined by a monumental series of challenges that would take up more than three years of their lives. The journey included Colin’s younger brothers, Aidan and Keegan, then 5 […]

To Seth and Stephanie Lerg, it seems at times like only yesterday that they were honeymooning on Hilton Head Island, hardly a care in the world, their immediate future wrapped up in nothing more complicated than where they’d next play golf. But like any other couple on the verge, their road map became more unpredictable […]

They never saw it coming. Not the family. Not the doctors. No one—Connie and David Lawrence realize now—but God in heaven. “Hannah was the first girl to be born on either side of our families, and everyone had high expectations,” Connie relates. “I had done the nursery, and it was beautiful. I look back at […]

In the first few excruciating moments that followed their daughter Lily’s diagnosis, Matt and Allison Tanis’ only question was, “Can she be cured?” But later – after realizing that their precious Lily would have to be segregated from others to safeguard her immune system – another concern surfaced, and it was, “Where can she go […]