This month, we want to bring awareness to support esophageal cancer by wearing a light purple ribbon, head/neck/oral cancer by wearing a burgundy/ ivory/red/white ribbon and testicular cancer by wearing a purple ribbon. Your support for cancer education and compassion will not go unnoticed.
One in two men and one in three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. If you’ve been recently diagnosed or know someone who has, we’re here with answers, guidance and support. You don’t have to face cancer alone. Some preventatives are to eat healthy, get active, stay away from tobacco, use sunscreen and get cancer screened yearly.
There has been $5 billion invested in cancer research since 1946. There are 18 million cancer survivors alive today, and 1 million-plus cancer screenings are made in underserved communities.
Help us end cancer as we know it, for everyone knows cancer doesn’t sleep. Donate now to improve the lives of people with cancer and their family through advocacy, research and patient support.
Congress just introduced the PSA (prostate specific antigen) screening for the HIM Act, which would require insurance companies to cover prostate cancer screening for those at high risk for the disease without out-of-pocket costs. I urge you to contact Congress to pass the PSA screening for the HIM Act.
We want to thank William/ Meg Miller, Burton Spencer, Lillian Morgan, Joann Melton, Steve Brown, Anita Greenwood, BFMW Group PLLC, Union Grove Baptist Church, Old Antioch Baptist Church, New Town M. B. Church. We thank you all for your continued support in donations or memorials. We also would like to thank our community as a whole. Y’all are simply awesome.
The Pancake for a Cancer Cure breakfast was a huge success.
We thank the Mayor’s Charity Ball committee for their donation.
The Rally for a Cure annual fundraiser date is Saturday, April 15, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the former National Guard armory in Charleston. Our Rally will consist of a silent auction, sweet shop, concession booth, T-shirts at $20 each, essays on cancer given by Charleston High School students, walkathon by the middle and high school and a jump rope fundraiser by Charleston Elementary School students. The memorial service starts at 11:30 and ends with a balloon liftoff at 12.
Rally special guest singer will be non other than our very own Mrs. Glenda Woods from Shaw. Mrs. Woods has also written her first book titled “Still Born: It’s Going to Happen,” meaning that despite any of the obstacles you have faced, God’s promise for your life is guaranteed to still happen!
We will have a tribute to our deceased board members, charter board members and cancer survivors. We will do door prizes, cake walks, and a luminary table will be set up to purchase luminaries for in memory and in honor of your loved ones.
Anyone that’s baking sweets for us is asked to please drop them off at the armory Friday, April 14, between 1-3 p.m. or call me at 662-752-9267 and I’ll pick up. You can also drop off on Saturday at 8 a.m. Thanks, you all, for everything.
Donations may be sent to Rally for a Cure, P.O. Box 971, Charleston, MS 38921.
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. (2 Corinthians 9:7)
“In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how Himself said, ‘It’s more blessed to give than to receive.’” (Acts 20:35)
And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him. (Hebrews 11:6)
