A message from Maggie:
It’s that time of year again! I’m the team captain for my church’s Relay for Life team… and Rich is the team captain for the mens team!

This year, my Relay for Life fund raising efforts are in honor of Abbey Keller. Abbey is a friend of mine that I met back in my college days - she lives in Colorado, has a wonderful hubby, lots of cute pets, a loving family and is currently fighting liver cancer. I’m racing to find a cure for her and for others like her who might someday hear the words “You have cancer.” I believe that raising money for an organization like the American Cancer Society will help us find a cure for cancer - so I’m soliciting your contribution.

Can you believe that more than 1.3 million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in the United States this year? Those are staggering statistics, but there is hope. Each of us can do something to save lives and help those already fighting this disease. That’s why I’ve decided to take action against cancer by supporting the American Cancer Society Relay For Life® event right here in my community.

Relay For Life is an overnight event that brings our community together to help support the American Cancer Society and its lifesaving mission to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. The Society works hard every day to prevent cancer and save lives by supporting groundbreaking research, affecting public policies that protect us from cancer, and educating people on how to prevent or detect cancer early. The Society helps people with cancer right here in our own community. And our efforts at Relay For Life can help the American Cancer Society to keep working toward a cancer-free future.

I want to invite you to show your support in the ongoing fight against cancer by joining us for this year’s event. Please click on the link below for more information, including details on the inspirational Survivors’ Lap and the moving Luminaria Ceremony. We hope to see you there! If you can’t join us, will you please visit the site and make a donation to support our efforts? Either way, you will make a real difference in the lives of people facing cancer and in the lives of the people who love them. Thank you!

For state fundraising notices and the American Cancer Society’s Privacy Policy, please paste this link into your browser: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/SU/su_0.asp

Click here to visit my personal page.
My personal fund raising goal is $250. No donation is too small.

Click here to view the team page for FirstLight Women

Here is a link to Rich’s mens team!

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A followup message from Abbey:

That’s Maggie in the picture above on the left in the blue tank top, next to her hubby Rich and 1st daughter Julia in front of her –baby Rebecca’s hiding in Mag’s tummy)

I remember when Maggie walked in this event last year she was like 15 months pregnant, in the middle of July in the middle of Kansas, sweaty, uncomfortable and walking in the middle of the night! I thought she was crazy and I told her so! She agreed but assured me it was for a good cause.

This year, she told me that she’d be walking in my honor (I think I mentioned this to you a month or so ago). She says that she and all the women in her bible study group out there in Gardner, KS talk about and pray for me and Honey all the time. Apparently, this lovely group of ladies know me way better than I know them (since I’ve never even met them!). Words cannot explain how deeply this touches my heart that she is walking in my honor this year. I no longer think she’s crazy. I think she’s gorgeous. I’ve always thought so but even more so now.

So here’s what I want you to do. I want you to go to her site right here, and support her and her team in any way you can! You’ve got till mid-July so you can plan ahead if you want to. Come to think of it, it’s not a bad way to spend your tax return! *hint* *hint*

Or, if you can make it out there, Honey and I are going to fly out and join Maggie and Rich in the walk itself! It will be at the tail end of two other back-to-back vacations we’ll be taking at the end of June, early July, but it will definitely be worth the extra effort! So come on out and walk with all of us! It’ll be fun!