Well, the battle started in September, 2023 with a weird
cancer. I believe that the odds of getting this cancer was like a 1 in 3.5
million. It originated in Asia, south Asia, and there's only like 80 cases in
the world. The name is Lymphoepithelial carcinoma. It created like a freaking war
on my sinus cavity, messed eyes, my eye nerves, and with my nasal functions
too. I had a tumor there and then I had two tumors on each side of my neck. And
also on my lymph nodes, and then after chemotherapy and radiation, they got it
out.

It was a miraculous event. And then now that happened in
2023. At the beginning of 2024 everything was pretty clear, it looked like I
was in total remission. But then at the end of 2024, they found that the cancer
transferred to the liver. And then I got stage four liver cancer with some
tumors.

And then I will say that they were like four, but now there's
only one. That is being active now. They are doing immunotherapy, chemotherapy,
and they're about to start doing radiation next week. So it's almost two years
of this battle. My faith has increased drastically. He has saved my life.

He has saved my marriage. He has saved my parenthood. He has
done, you know, marvelous things in my life. I have never felt so close to him
without this really hard trial. So I am so appreciative of life that it
literally makes me see life in a different way. I could not use my eye for 16
months. I lost my taste, my smell, my touch. I got shingles as well when I was battling
the cancer. I almost bled to death on the freeway. They helicoptered me, but I
have never left God, I have never let go. I have never left God. So I always, I
have never let go. I have always let God inside of me, outside of me and
everything that I do.

The Holy Spirit, it has been fixing me inside out has been
like so crazy cool. I'm in love with this life. I will not change at all what
is happening to me. I'm so appreciative for what has happened my last two
years. It have been the best years of my life and the hardest ones for me and
my family.

-Izzy

When I was a year and a half old  my biological mother abandoned me, leaving me to the state foster care system. Over the next 2 years I was passed around between 16 different foster homes and orphanages. I quickly learned that I couldn’t trust anyone to be there for me, care for me or protect me. No matter what I did, I would never be enough to earn anyone’s love. When I was three and a half I came to a foster home that took me to church every week. These people were gentle and loving, even when I was at my meanest. One night I woke up crying and the foster mom came in to check on me. She asked me all sorts of questions trying to figure out what was wrong. When nothing seemed to comfort me, she finally asked me if I wanted to say yes to Jesus, asking Him to be with me everyday for the rest of my life. She told me that no matter what I did or what was done to me, He would never leave me, He would never not love me. There was nothing I could do that would make Him turn away from me.Of courseas a child who had never had anything close to that I leapt on the opportunity to have a relationship with someone I couldn’t make not love me. I said yes that night and He has never left me. Life hasn’t been easy since then, I’ve been abused, I watched my adoptive father die, I’ve been through multiple losses, but through it all, God has never left me, He has never abandoned me. He gave me an adoptive mother who points me to Him everyday (the foster mom who told me about Jesus), and loves me no matter how awful I am. He gave me a husband who knows the worst of who I am and still chooses me everyday. He has used all the awfulness in my life to help point others to Him, to show them that no matter how hard things are, He is always there with a never ending, never giving up love if we only choose Him. - Angie

Saying yes everyday comes from a place of surrender. At one point in our lives we get tired of the pain from our circumstances and life choices and we start looking for freedom.  We think we can find it in this world but it can only be found in and through our relationship with God.  When we take that step and say yes to Him we are saying yes to His Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.  And each day I continue to say yes that is the fruit He is cultivating in me so that is what comes out of me.  Today it might be in patience, and tomorrow it might be self control. As long as I have Him working in me not only am I not alone, I’m alive. I experience his LOVE through blessings appearing in many ways and people, the church, my wife and kids and others.- Joshua

For too many years, I fought against church, against religion. I was raised “Catholic” and that “Catholic guilt” was real, and I think that is why I rejected organized religion for so long. I was 43 years old when I fully and officially said YES to Jesus. I’ve made every effort to say YES everyday. It’s the call to service and discipleship that leads me now. How can I show love to fellow human? Can that love and surrender help others find Christ? This is what I’m in the process of finding out but my faith in God’s love and his promises to me tells me that my surrender will ultimately help others.- Bobby