April 2021 ~ Love God & Love People

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Legacy Night @ Union w/ Gus Malzahn

I had the privilege of hosting our Legacy Night at Union this year.

What an amazing “Legacy Night” at Union Christian Academy! Thank you Coach Gus Malzahn and our entire leadership and development teams! GREAT NEWS COMING SOON!!!

(Update: we raised over $130k)

Cancer Free!

Well, I get to share something I’ve been waiting on for 6 months 

We got the words from Tiffany’s oncologist today, “Complete Response” 

No more chemotherapy needed No radiation therapy needed at all 

That means that The Tiffany Rose is cancer free! PRAISE THE LORD 

Her surgery went exceptionally well, direct quotes from both surgeons. 

We are so thankful for all the prayers of family, friends and complete strangers! Thank you to an excellent medical team; over a dozen docs, nurses, infusion team and so many others. 

Most of all, we are thankful to our God and healer. Thank you Jesus for your care and protection over Tiffany. 

I just love her smile (and look at all that hair growing!) I got puffy ugly cry eyes, tears of joy!

Also, thank you to Stronghold Ministry and their care, compassion and support to Tiffany through this.

Fighting For Sexual Integrity

We had a Powerful night in Atkins, Ar. I was blessed to bring a great message to the men on sexual integrity, pornography and purity tonight.

Then we had an amazing service with these powerful men and women of God. Thank You Bells Chapel! Powerful Night. We will visit again!!!

We are Home, Tiff put in a 12 hour day at the hospital and was in surgery for just over 7 hours. Thank you to each one of you who prayed, it had an amazing impact! Both surgeons and all nurses were over the top about how well everything went and how amazing Tiffany did. I love you babe

, your smile lights up the entire room.

(Thank you to all of her medical team for all their amazing work)

Thank you Lord for all of your blessings and your protection and care for Tiffany.

Cancer Guest Blog from My Wife

Sorry this is a little long. Several people have asked how I’m doing and where I am at in treatments lately, so I thought I would share a little of where we are at. I haven’t posted an update in awhile because we’ve pretty much just been in between treatments the last 7 weeks and waiting in limbo for what’s next, but now we finally have some direction and a plan. So here’s an update:

That was the most wonderful news to hear and an answer to prayer, but the scan did reveal two new spots that were considered *slightly* suspicious. I won’t know what they were until after surgery or if it’s gone completely from my lymph node, but I’m trusting and believing in total confidence that they will turn out to be nothing!!

I’m definitely feeling better now and more like myself than when I was on chemo. There’s still the fatigue, cloudy memory at times and normal aches and pains that will take some time to go away. I was describing my current symptoms to one of my nurses the other day and she jokingly said, “Welcome to your 60s!” 

My kids think it’s hilarious to feel my “fuzz” that’s starting to grow pretty quickly on my head now, even if I do look like a newborn baby chick. It’s fun, however, to put a wig on once in awhile and watch my three year old’s eyes get big with excitement: “Mommy, your hair grew back!!” That never gets old lol!! 

There’s so much more that goes into treating breast cancer than I ever could’ve imagined. I was completely clueless as to how many different kinds and treatment plans there were. The amount of information is quite overwhelming at times. Mine was thankfully caught fairly early but was still considered complex and was very fast growing in the beginning, so I’ve had a pretty aggressive treatment plan. That’s ok because cancer knows it’s not allowed to return!

I had an MRI a couple of weeks ago that showed the cancer we were treating appeared to have a complete pathological response and could not be seen on any image, Praise the Lord!!!! 

I’m scheduled for surgery this Friday that I was told would likely take at least 5 hours, and I will be having multiple things done all at once. To say I’m a little nervous is an understatement since this is the part I’ve dreaded the most, but I know God has brought us this far and will continue to see us through it!! I can say without a doubt that He has been with us every step of the way and has shown us His goodness over and over. I would appreciate your prayers that there would be no complications with surgery or the long recovery, for a good pathology report to follow, and especially for my husband and family who will have the hardest job of all as caretakers. 

Thank you so much for all of your prayers and encouragement the last few months. They always seem to come at exactly the right times! We are truly blessed with the best friends and family!!

“You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭30:11-12‬ ‭NKJV‬‬