Joel's Journey: concert!!!

Monday, December 12, 2011

concert!!!

I know I will sound bias, but Daniel did a great job with his concert at our church Sunday evening!!! We had quite a few friends come and are so grateful that you did!! I have a short video of one of my favorites he did!! A big thank you to Josh and Eric and Marla helping him out on the piano and guitars!!

He ended up doing about 10 songs and a Power point presentation of where and what he will be doing in Australia!! I have to say I was impressed!!! It is amazing to see how God has provided for his trip!! Thank YOU for supporting him, and family and friends at our church and abroad!!! When God is in it, He provides!! I hope this will be one of those "stones" in his life and each of our lives that God will take care of His work!!!

Its getting close....December 31st will be here far too soon for this mom's heart!!! I have to be brave and pray, pray, pray!!! Hope you will pray with us and for him these next 3 months!!

Well, better go, Mercy is going wild over wanting our new dessert we have in the refrigerator!!!!! and I am ready for my coff-aaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

Cindy

5 comments:

Teena said...: What a great job he did... praying for him. Did you know that Mandi went to YWAM in January 2008? She was just about 3 hrs away... and didn't end up going on the mission part of the program.

Wow... Australia. I will be praying for you too....

again... as they grow so many changes huh?

love,
Teen; December 12, 2011 at 10:23 PM
Anonymous said...: Ah, I wish we could have been there! We were thinking we were going to be able to make it, but something came up and we couldn't! Looks like it went great, though! Sorry we missed it!; December 13, 2011 at 6:50 AM
The Ahlgren Family said...: Daniel did a phenomenal job! We really enjoyed it! I must say though, it made us miss Caleb! Anna did great on the bells, er, I mean with singing! Our friends Melanie and Marcel Thomas greatly enjoyed the music and Lilian was completely mezmorized!
Daniel's presentation was neat. It was really cool to see how the Lord has provided the funds needed plus an extra $60! He can buy airport food on the way over, haha!
We'll definitely be praying for Daniel (and you and the rest) as he prepares to leave so soon!
Oh, thank you for showing me where the bathroom was! :P; December 13, 2011 at 11:42 AM
Anonymous said...: Awesome!!! Thank you for sharing ..... you must one PROUD MAMA!!! Take care :); December 13, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Cindy & Rich said...: What a blessing to listen to Daniel play. One of my favorites!; December 13, 2011 at 4:49 PM

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Joel's Story

Joel, our 11th of 13 and a twin of Josiah, at age 3 was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, on December 6th, 2006. Joel had three perfect years of health and he and Josiah celebrated their 3rd birthday Sept. 13th, 2006. The first of Oct. Joel started having unexplained fevers for a few days and would return to active play. After the fourth round of fevers we took him to our family Dr. which they said his iron was low, so we treated that for a few weeks and took him back only to have his hemo. showing lower than before. We were referred to a hematologists and saw him a few weeks with blood checks twice a week. At a visit on Dec. 4th we showed the Dr. the bumps, (which were tumors but we did not know at the time) on Joel's head and he was very concerned and we were told we needed to admit him immediately and start extensive tests the following day. Joel went through rigorous testing and then the dreaded results were given. Joel was at a stage IV the most extensive stage, but we were hopeful that the Lord would use the means of Chemotherapy treatments to restore Joel's body. Joel endured 8 1/2 days in the hospital, came home for Christmas, and returned for his second round of chemo Jan. 3, 2007. Joel had a seizure that night after midnight and went into a coma due to a tumor bleeding in his head area and causing his brain to swell. After tests the following days, the Dr. declared Joel "brain dead" and took us to court to force us to take Joel off life support, as we did not agree with the medical field's definition of death. Our family sought to stand with the scripture, "life is in the blood,"and until Joel's heart quit beating naturally, he was living. We were making arrangements to bring him home and on January 23, 2007 his little heart stopped beating and he went to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven. Our lives are changed forever. God is faithful in the midst of this trial and we look with great hope to be with him someday.