Friday, October 29, 2010

TODAY - LAST DAY

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO ORDER YOUR TEAM SHIRT FOR THIS YEAR'S ST JUDE MARATHON.

ALSO, WE DID GET THE IPAD FOR A TEAM RAFFLE TO HELP US RAISE OUR $20,000.00!!! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO (DONATE) $5 FOR EACH TICKET, I WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO SEND YOU SOME IN THE MAIL. JUST EMAIL ME WITH THE NUMBER OF TICKETS YOU WANT AND A MAILING ADDRESS TO SEND THEM.

TEAM MEMBERS, IF EACH OF YOU WILL SELL JUST 10 TICKETS, WE CAN SELL ALL 500 TICKETS BEING SOLD AND TURN THIS INTO $2,500.00 FOR ST JUDE. IT'S EASY. OF COURSE, YOU ARE WELCOME TO SELL MORE. THEY ARE ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS.

TOP SALES PERSON (SELLING THE MOST TICKETS) WILL RECEIVE ONE NIGHT FREE IN THE HOTEL DURING THE MARATHON WEEKEND. IF THE TOP SELLING PERSON IS NOT COMING THAT WEEKEND, THE PRIZE WILL BE OF EQUAL VALUE TO THAT ROOM.
THE PERSON WHO SELLS THE WINNING TICKET WILL RECEIVE A CASH PRIZE OF $25.00!!

ALSO, ANY AND ALL DONATIONS WELCOME, WE ARE IN THE CLOSING WEEKS OF THIS YEAR'S BIG EVENT, YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO BE A PART AND HELP US HELP ST JUDE AND ALL OF OUR PRECIOUS KIDDO'S WE SUPPORT.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!

BELIEVE PRAYER WORKS~

rebelmom528@aol.com

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Good Morning!

Good morning! I hope each of you will have a wonderful and blessed day! As you go through today, look around you and take the opportunity to do one random act of kindness toward someone else today. Just watch the smile come across their face when they realize what was just done for them! It's contagious!

I had a pretty full day yesterday at the Jude. I had the opportunity to meet a new family that arrived over the weekend. They are a very sweet and precious family and came to my attention by several different friends of mine from different times and places in my life. It was pretty amazing how small our world and circle of friends can really be at times. This family has a precious little 4 year old boy who has just been diagnosed with leukemia. They do not have a CB page set up at this time, they are just very busy getting adjusted to the journey they now find themselves on. Please keep them in your prayers, I'll post more as I have more opportunities to visit with them and have an opportunity to talk with them regarding sharing his info.

Also, big prayer request... Please keep Joseph and his family in your prayers. Joseph has left the hospital and gone to Target House on hospice care. A few weeks ago, the doctors told the family there were no more options for him and his time was very short. Over the past few weeks, his counts have begun to come up and look better. He needs all of he prayers you can send up on his behalf. His family is a very strong spiritual family and know that God is in control. Pray for Joseph's miracle of healing and for his family to have peace during this time. I got to spend some time with them last night, they have ask me to help them arrange a party for Joseph so that his friends and family will have an opportunity to come and spend some time with him. I am very honored to help them with this and extremely excited because he is a BIG Ole Miss fan like myself. They want an Ole Miss cake!!! I'm REALLY honored and excited to pull this one off!!! Please keep them in your constant prayers.

I got to spend some time with Preston yesterday too! He was hyped up on steroids and was absolutely adorable and full of himself! He was bouncing all over the place. He is just so cute! Please continue to pray for him to continue to improve from the GVH complications. His counts are all great, just dealing with the GVH now. Hopefully he will get to get out of the hospital in the next couple of weeks.

BIG NEWS: A brand new IPad has been donated to our team to be used as a fundraiser for Team Believe. We will have the opportunity to sell chances to win the IPad. The chances "tickets" "donations" will be $5 per donation with ALL proceeds going to St Jude. If you are a team member and want to participate in this, email me and I will mail you the amount of tickets you think you can sell or if you are not a team member and want to donate for tickets for yourself, email me. We will only be selling 500 tickets, and they are already going fast. We will have the drawing for the winner at our team dinner on Friday night December 3, 2010. Anyone anywhere can participate in this opportunity. I can ship the IPad via FedEx to anyone who is the lucky winner! Support our team, get your tickets today. They WILL NOT last long.

ALSO....TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY TO ORDER TEAM APPAREL. TEAM T-SHIRTS, SWEATS, HOODIES AND HATS. DO NOT MISS OUT the pay pal buttons will come down tomorrow night and all sales will be over. While it is not required, we would love for all team members to wear their team shirt on race day. We want everyone to see us coming and know who Team Believe is!

Keep up the great work! Please be in prayer for a few of the fundraisers that some of our team is doing. Pray for the ones working to put them together and pray for their success. Arkansas Chapter (Brenda and Lenzy) are working on their beauty pageant. It is coming up in another week or so. Pray for lot's of pretty little girls to participate in this and for them to all have a great time and feel so special.

Jordan's family is hosting a big dinner and festival type event at the end of November. Be praying for them as they are working very hard to make this happen.

Order your team shirts and ask someone to make a donation today! Just one a day will add up :)

BELIEVE PRAYER WORKS~

rebelmom528@aol.com

Monday, October 25, 2010

Counting Down...

I'm home and playing catch up. I hope to get some time to get to the hospital tomorrow or Wednesday to see Preston and Leah. Also, I received word today of a new little guy who has come while I was gone. He has been diagnosed with leukemia. That is really all I know at this time. Please be praying for him and his family as they are trying to grasp the new world they have just found themselves in the middle of. I'll give more details after I visit with them.

Please be in prayer for precious little Ryan and his family. Ryan, as you know, come to St Jude for a second transplant last year but relapsed again. He has been waiting on a donor for a third transplant for awhile now. He has been back home in Texas. He has been in and out of the hospital with fevers and infections quite a bit in the past few months. He was sent home from the hospital at the end of last week to be with his family. Short of a miracle, Ryan is losing his battle. Please keep him, his mom Kim, and his father and other siblings in your prayers. I still just do not know how you face knowing the time is very short. Kim has been very strong the whole time she was in Memphis and has remained strong after going back home to Texas. Please pray for them.

THIS FRIDAY IS THE LAST DAY TO ORDER A TEAM T-SHIRT AND THE SWEATS. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR ORDER IN BY MIDNIGHT ON FRIDAY NIGHT OCTOBER 29, 2010. THE ORDER BUTTONS WILL COME OFF THE PAGE AT MIDNIGHT, THERE WILL NOT BE A CHANCE FOR LATE ORDERS. I HAVE TO HAVE THE ORDER IN TO THE PRINT SHOP MONDAY MORNING IN ORDER TO GET THE PRINTED AND IN THE MAIL BACK TO YOU. PLEASE DON'T MISS OUT, IT'S AWESOME TO LET OTHERS SEE OUR TEAM! I AM VERY PROUD OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF OUR TEAM MEMBERS.

More to come...

BELIEVE PRAYER WORKS~

BELIEVE IN TEAM BELIEVE!!!!

Saturday, October 16, 2010

There is Power in Prayer

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone: or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets." Matt. 7:7-12

Prayer is such an important part of the Christian's walk with God. I cannot fathom living life without such an option! Prayer grants believers not only the privilege of being able to personally evoke God's name in praise and gratitude, but also the right to petition Him for things of concern. In prayer, the Christian can essentially ask God to intervene in their life. It is an incredible thing if you really think about it - in prayer the Christian may actually be praying for something to happen that may not have taken place had he or she not prayed about it. AMAZING!

Our God is not only a loving father, He is one who stands ready to give. Scripture says He is the giver of "good gifts" and "perfect gifts." Your needs are neither unknown, nor are they unimportant to your God. Your God is right beside you essentially saying, "Just trust me. Everything will be alright." What a comfort!

BELIEVE PRAYER WORKS!

I just want to leave you with that thought for the week. I will be "out of pocket" this coming week. I will be enjoying a long awaited vacation cruise with my husband and all four of our boys this next week. I would like to ask for your prayers for safe travel for us. We will fly out of Memphis to Ft Lauderdale early Monday morning, board ship that afternoon and return home the next weekend. We have been looking forward to this trip, at this stage of our lives and the ages of our guys, it becomes very difficult to find a time when all of us can get away together. God has blessed us with this time.

I have another prayer request for you too. Little Trevor really needs some prayers going his way to help him adjust to the new life of school structure. He is really having a difficult time adjusting and it's been very tough on him and his parents. Please pray for him to have a great week at school this next week. Healthy wise, he is doing really well!

Please keep praying for Preston as he continues to remain in the transplant unit waiting for his cells to engraft. His hair is just about all out now, he is still just as cute as can be! I just love a shinny slick chemo head!!! He is doing well, he has his good days and his not so good ones... that is just how it goes following transplant. Pray specifically for no side effects affecting his organs and NO GVHD! Pray for his ANC and others counts to keep going up!

That's about it as for the SJ kiddo's! Everyone else seems to be doing very well.

TEAM BELIEVE: Don't forget to get your hotel confirmations in. Last day to order t-shirts and sweats is OCTOBER 29TH.
Plan your trip to Memphis... Team Dinner on Friday evening beginning at 6:30; allow time to go downtown to pick up your packets. Do not forget... THERE IS NO PACKET PICKUP ON RACE DAY THIS YEAR.

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME THIS WEEK TO ASK JUST 5 PEOPLE TO PLEASE DONATE TO YOUR GOAL TOWARD RAISING MONEY FOR ST JUDE. If each one of our 50 members can get just $100.00 in donations, that would put us way up toward reaching our goal.
Remember: You DO NOT have to be on the team to donate, please if you are reading this page, please go to our team goal page and click on DONATE NOW and give what you can to this wonderful hospital. It is people like you and I that keep the doors open for these children to continue being treated to fight this ugly beast! If it is $5.00 or $500.00... it does not matter! Every penny is so important! Please help us reach our goal of $20,000.00.

Pray for our success as a team.

BELIEVE PRAYER WORKS~

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Fun Faces to Share


Trevor at the Bolton Night For St Jude Spaghetti Dinner- we raised $350.00 for St Jude!! Trevor had a blast and was the star of the night!


Yes... that is our sweet Beauty Queen Ariel at a photo shoot at her high school Homecoming! That girl is one awesome girl! She was the Senior Maid for the Homecoming Court this year. Congrats Ariel


You know you just have to smile when you see this little face! Jack says..."Look at me now guys!" He is doing great and you should see the head of hair under that hard hat! He was helping with a family building project over the past weekend.

TEAM BELIEVE - A Team page has been set up on Facebook. It also has closed group chat availability. I have tried to add everyone to it that is on our marathon team, if you would like to join it, you may send a join request through facebook to join.

IMPORTANT... ONLY ABOUT 2 MORE WEEKS TO ORDER YOUR TEAM BELIEVE MARATHON TSHIRT. Orders will only be taken until October 29, 2010.

HOTEL CONFIRMATION/RESERVATIONS NEED TO BE MADE ASAP.

Hope you all have a great day. Say a little prayer for the success of our Memphis group's Chili's Give Back Day that will be held tomorrow. If you know anyone in Memphis, give me a call and let them know to go eat at either the Millington or the Wolfchase Chili's tomorrow anytime from 11 - 11. Tell them you are there for the St Jude Give Back Day when you go in and 10% of the profit will come to TEAM BELIEVE for St Jude!

BELIEVE PRAYER WORKS~

Sunday, October 3, 2010

St Jude Fun Day

What a beautiful weekend God has given to us! The weather in West Tennessee has been just perfect. I had a wonderful day yesterday at a small town BBQ Fest in Henderson, TN. Mallerie's family had a booth at the BBQ Fest to raise money for their St Jude Marathon team. It was a huge success and a fantastic day. It was a blessing to get to spend some time with them. Heath has grown up so much and is such a handsome and sweet young man. Brad and Tina look great, they are staying busy keeping up with Heath and doing wonderful things for St Jude. Keep them in your prayers.




Mallerie's booth at the Chester Country BBQ Fest - NP Jen, Tina, Mardecia, Shelia (Tina's sister)


Update more later.... I'm at Pickwick now.

BELIEVE PRAYER WORKS~

Friday, October 1, 2010

Get Your Order In...

It's time to start getting our orders in for shirts, sweats, hoodies, & hats! The team t-shirt will have the photo of Dr. Scott and Jordan on the back and our Team Believe logo on the front. The logo is the same as was on the front of our team shirt last year. We will be adding a few names this year. We will be adding Ariel as they have joined our team this year, LIttle Trevor, and Natalie. All will be with us this year! Also, ^Mary Kate's^ name will be added.

We will also be offering a hoodie/sweat pants set or you can purchase them separately if you only want one or the other. The is a small price break if you order the set. You will have a choice on the hoodie, you can either order one with the team logo on the center front or the words "TEAM BELIEVE" on the center front. The pants will have TEAM BELIEVE down the leg. The set will be $40.00. Hoodie alone is $25.00 - pants alone will be $20.00. We have a baseball style cap that will have TEAM BELIEVE on the front center, cost on the cap is $12.00.

The pay pal order will be open on our blog page through this month. The orders will close on Friday October 29,2010. I MUST have the order turned in to the print shop by Monday November 1, 2010 in order for us to have it all back in time to get them shipped out to everyone. If you want to just pick yours up when you get to Memphis, just let me know.

I'm excited about our silent auction again this year. We did very well with that last year. Remember, please try to bring at least one item to put in the silent auction with you. Either a themed basket, or an individual item , either is perfect!

Our Memphis group of Team Believe is all organized and ready for NOT ONE BUT TWO Chili's Give Back Nights on October 13th! We have met with the managers and two different locations will be hosting the Give Back night for us on the same night. They will actually be hosting it from 11am to 11pm at both locations. We are very thankful and grateful to Chili's for all of the support they give to St Jude. I LOVE CHILI'S!!! I wish you could all come to Memphis on the 13th and join us!

Do you have your hotel room confirmed? Have you asked someone to donate to your goal this week? Are you ready to come to Memphis????

Please be in specific prayer for a few of our kiddo's. First Preston had his transplant on Wednesday, please keep him in prayer for a uneventful and successful transplant. Also, Morgan is on her way to St Jude today to get a few things checked out, please be praying for her today that all is well. Big Trevor had his surgery on Monday and has returned home. Pray for his surgery to be successful. I know many of you have followed Devon Lore, he went home to be with Jesus and his other St Jude buddies who have fought the battle and earned their wings before him. Please keep his family in your prayers. Little Trevor is doing well as for his cancer, however he is having some difficulties adjusting to school. He started kindergarten this year and it's a huge change for him. Please keep him in your prayers and his family as they are trying to help him with all of these adjustments. Jordan has started full time school in the past month too, he is loving it! He has some mornings where he cries when they drop him off, but it's over by the time they get out of the parking lot and he is loving it! Boy, I can't wait to get my hands on him in December! This is the longest I have gone without seeing him!

Please be in prayer for our team. For us to be successful and reach or surpass our goal of $20,000.00, for everyone to have safe training and safe travel here. Pray for an overall successful marathon for St Jude.

Enjoy your family and friends this weekend. I hope the weather forecast for where ever you are is as perfect as the one we have for Memphis! This is the most beautiful weather we have had in quite sometime.

Ok, I just got a text from Regina Rushing, her other daughter Alison just finished up at the doctor. She has been having trouble with her knee for quite some time now and they are finally going to do surgery this coming Wednesday. They have tried all measures to see if it would get better without having to go to surgery, but seems surgery is the only way now. Please pray for Alison and Regina. Pray the doctors will be able to find the problem and fix it right up!

Have a great weekend!

BELIEVE PRAYER WORKS~