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check out the beautiful story the leader did on community support for Lucy

lucy's story on wmc-tv 5

Click here to view WMC-TV 5's coverage of Lucy's story that aired tonight at 6 p.m. Don't forget to pick up your copy of The Leader, on news stands tomorrow that will share more about the outpouring of God's love in our community for this sweet girl.

I don't know that any news story could convey what God is doing among His people here. It's nothing like I have ever witnessed before. That's just how good He is to turn tragedy into beauty.

go lucy go/pray for lucy upcoming events

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St. Jude Walk-A-Thon honoring Lucy is being held.

When: Saturday, March 26th at 10:00 a.m.

 Location: Walgreens 4015 Austin Peay Hwy Memphis, TN.

Please come and participate in Lucy's honor. Participant packets can be picked up at the front desk of Rose Construction in Covington, TN. If you have any questions please call Diane Winbush @ 901-476-7999.

 

Please feel free to print these flyers out on 8.5x11 paper and post to promote support for Lucy and share this blog post with those who may be interested.

Thanks again for your prayers!

Lucy's story will air tonight on WMC Channel 5 at 6:00 p.m. via Justin Hanson. Make sure to tune in!

lucy's story will air on wmc-tv5 tomorrow night at 5 or 6

I always complain about negative media. I have refused to be apart of any negative media story in the past when I've been approached for an interview. I also HATE being in front of a video camera and am not fond of being in the spotlight. But, God has been showing me that you have no business complaining if you aren't doing something to counteract the negative. So, when Justin Hanson approached us about doing a story about how God has been moving among our community to unite us together in prayer in support I was a little nervous, but knew it would be a great opportunity to brag on Jesus. He obtained the family's permission and met us this morning at my studio to do the interview. Echo Day tagged along to interview us for the paper, too.

As I mentioned yesterday, I feel God calling me to keep Lucy on the forefront of everyone's minds and hearts in fervent prayer for her in the marathon of a battle she has yet to face. She needs us as her prayer warriors to support her through this trial. 

I have a personal connection to this feeling in the world of super shocker news stories that last for a minute or two and then it's on to the next breaking news. At 17, when my life was turned upside down after the tragic loss of my best friend in a car accident, I heard over and over from people kindly expressing that they were so sad for a weekend or days. They just couldn't get the tragedy off of their minds in the temporary. The counselor at her memorial service even made the statement that it was ok if in three weeks or a month you forgot to think about her for a day or so. You weren't to feel guilty. Weeks? Months? Years? It was so offensive for me to hear that people would forget someone so special to  me. If they had forgotten her, they would surely forget to pray for her family and friends. Needless to say, I haven't forgotten Laura. Not out of guilt, but out of love. There has rarely, if ever been a day she didn't cross my mind. Her life and death touched mine in such a way that God used it to transform me into who I am today.

All that to say, I will not forget Lucy and her family and I don't want you to either. Her life matters. There are many sick children in this world, but this is the one God put in my path, to use the abilities and experiences He's given me to help people remember her and give her the hope that she will survive, with God's help and my prayer is that she will use her life for His glory.

Ultimately it's Lucy's fight with God by her side. 

So, tune in to channel 5 to  hear her story and pray that others are moved to pray for her as well. May God get the glory, great things He has done!

happy birthday, lucy!

Today is Lucy's 5th birthday. A day of celebration of such a special life that was brought into the Rose/Krull family. Although she's spending it in the hospital fighting a nasty disease, everyone is trying to pour out their love and excitement for her birthday. FIVE is such a BIG deal! 

Yesterday on the way to church, out of the blue Jonah said, " We have to go to church and pray for Lucy." It caught us so off guard since we hadn't been talking about her in the car that morning. I told his teacher the situation and hope they prayed for her in class. So, this morning I told him all about it being Lucy's birthday and how much she liked Buzz and Toy Story. He agreed to dress up and make a video for her. He started to cry when he realized she wasn't coming over. He's never even met Lucy, but knows he's "got a friend in her." Those kindred "Toy Story" kids! 

 

what a weekend!

It started off on the right note with a community wide prayer service for Lucy Krull. Zach and I were so wired after that we could hardly sleep. We woke up still feeling the presence of God moving among us. 

I got up, got ready, and worked on Zach's blog header (yes, he's joining the blogging world with his 50 page Kenya journal! Even I haven't read it yet).

Then Georgia came by and let me photograph the "Go Lucy Go!" shirts (more info to come).

I didn't get to see my BFF from HS. Her baby was sick, she was only here for 2 days and had A LOT of family to see. I hope we catch them next time so I can give them both a big HUG!

I did, however, have a great visit from my 2 also expecting roommates from Ole Miss. Amanda Joy (middle) is due on the same day as I am (although she looks much better! She ran a 5K before our lunch that day at 21 weeks!) Ashley, left, is due a month before we are. They are having boys. I am having a girl. It was funny to listen to them chat about being first time moms. I remember being right where they are. The 2nd pregnancy is so much different. They can't fathom having a 2 year old and being pregnant. I was the same way. I think I slept and ate my way through 9 months of gestation with Jonah. This time, I hardly sit down and I'm much more energetic because I have to be. 

They thought it was funny, as we shopped and ate around our square, that everyone knew me. When you live in a small town for 30 years that's kind of what happens, but they are from the "big city" and it's foreign to them. LOL! Ashley told her mom I was a celebrity here. Never thought of it that way since EVERYBODY here knows EVERYBODY. That's the beauty of this thriving place.

Then we headed to Cordova for dinner at Humdingers and a movie with a sweet couple from our Sunday School Class. We all talked so much that we said next time we'll bring Jonah to their house to play with their kids while we chat all night. I told Tanya it may have to be a sleepover as much as the four of us have to say! LOL!

The Grace Card was such a great movie! I highly recommend it to everyone! It was filmed in Memphis and had such a good message.

Sunday morning we took Zach to Bellevue at 8:30 so he could work the Light Ministries booth at the Missions Expo. It was too early to take Jonah to his class, so we headed over to Target for a few baby girl things.

We had a wonderful day at church learning how missing the abundant Christian life starts with a complaining spirit which leads to a critical spirit that leads to a spirit of unbelief which leads to rebellion and ultimately missing the "promised land." Oh what a timely message and song service! I have had several critics in my life lately and this message helped me to realize that I'm to tune my ear to God's voice not the critical voice of this world (unless I've done something in the flesh to warrant a complaint). 

We then felt led to go see Erik, Kate, and Lucy at Le Bonheur. So, we made a mad dash home to drop off Jonah with my parents and headed back to Memphis. What an eye opening experience to talk with Kate and Erik first hand, empathize with their hurting hearts, witness their God given strength, and see Lucy with my own eyes. I don't think the photos truly tell you just how small she is, not in stature per say, but how much of a young, young child she is on the inside. What a FIGHTER! How could such bravery come from a girl with such a small voice. In my eyes she seems like a baby, but she's fighting the battle of a full grown adult, and fighting it well with God's help.

Seeing her put that much more of a fire under me to make it my mission to keep Lucy on the forefront of as many hearts as I can find. They need prayer support, for healing, for stamina, for strength, for patience, for energy, for enduring longsuffering, for faith, for the enemy to be bound from their hearts and minds, for the ability to focus on one moment in time, to find joy in the journey even though it will be hard, to know that the fire they are walking through is refining them into pure gold and molding them into something beautiful that God will use in the process and on the other side. 

(Phone pic, but took for a remembrance).

Then we went to Winter Jam at the Fed Ex Forum.

We went to see the David Crowder band, but their were several great bonus acts that were so worth going to the event.

When DCB was singing "How He Loves," and this verse in particular, I heard a word from God.

He is jealous for me
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy
When all of a sudden
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
And I realise just how beautiful You are
And how great Your affections are for me

His affections are so much more than our afflictions. I had just left Lucy's bedside. I had her face in my mind and it resonated with the word affliction . I don't know if you've ever seen the Memphis Passion Play at Bellevue, but the image started running through my head of the blond headed child that Jesus brings back to life. In verse 50 Jesus said, “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.” God didn't bring that verse into my head not to cling to.

Then Francessca Batestelli came out and brought me to tears with her new song "Angel by Your Side." I couldn't help but think of all of Lucy's angels by her side taking care of her each day, especially her mom and dad. We are their angels holding them up with our prayer support. 

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Then, I came home and CRASHED! Whew, for a non-social-butterfly that was a BIG weekend. This homebody's got to take it easy next weekend, but it was one Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I'll never forget and I felt the Lord the whole way through.

what faith can do!

Rain, what rain? God told us to have Lucy's prayer service outdoors on Friday night at 5:30. There was a 90% chance of thunderstorms at that time, according to the forecast. But, my God is bigger than that. He wouldn't call me to do something that He wouldn't provide a way for. He calmed the storm, His people showed up, and He was honored and glorified. A soft, cool breeze, blew across the crowd as if God was breathing His spirit over the crowd. 

Preparations were underway late Friday afternoon for Lucy's Prayer Service. Thanks to the City of Covington, Rusty and Kristy Richardson, Mario Hayslett, Brandon Armstrong, Drew Glass, and Josh Tyndall for giving of what you had to make this event go off without a hitch.

Lucy Bows

Even the little children came out in support of Lucy.

Our directed prayer requests and applicable scripture.

My little prayer partner at home. He didn't get to join us, but has been so concerned about Lucy.

healing rain is falling down, i'm not afraid

this little heart of mine

For as long as I can remember, I have had a heart for childhood cancer.

I remember as a very small child being introduced to it through a televised special about Memphis's own St. Jude. 

I recall the emotions I felt as my innocent eyes viewed images of children my age and younger suffering through treatment, losing their hair, and some not surviving. 

I remember praying the same prayer every night before I went to bed that God would heal them, protect me and my sister from the disease and lead doctors to a cure for Cancer.

I believed God would do those things.

He did protect me and my sister. He has healed many through the ministry of St. Jude. And He's never let me forget the first time He put the burden of the children of St. Jude on my heart so that I would be a prayer and financial supporter of them as a healthy adult.

I still pray for a cure. 

Last year, God put a family in my path that lost their daughter to childhood cancer. 

I dedicated my pumpkin patch event to raising awareness and money for St. Jude in memory of Madelyn.

Just a few weeks ago, Kate McCrae was brought to my attention by a client. I rallied around her in prayer an asked you to do the same. I don't even know her.

Now, Covington's own Lucy is fighting her own battle and headed to St. Jude on her 5th birthday on Monday.

A little girl from Countrywood (a special place in my childood) is the star of the St. Jude radiothon. I had no idea this was even going on this week.

There are no coincidences.

We serve an awesome God who is proving "He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen." Ephesians 3:20-21

What are the chances of all of this coming together in His name for sweet Lucy just when she needs the prayer support and healing?

As I drove down Hwy 51 on a mission for panchos (in case of rain tonight), I tuned in to hear the name of God being used in such a positive and affirming way in support of St. Jude and especially LUCY! 

It was a full circle moment for me. 

I sat at the red light beside Glass Tire sobbing with joy and praise to the Lord knowing God had put the burden of St. Jude on my heart when I was not much bigger than Lucy for Lucy's sake. 

He knew she'd cross my path one day and that He would show me His face through her face and His sufferings through her sufferings. 

We, who are in Christ, are daughters and sons of The King, in a royal position to pray and request the desires of our heart.

"And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14