For Parents

Ministries, Organizations, and Online Resources

Below are some links to other ministries and organizations that are also actively fighting childhood cancer or other life-threatening illnesses.

www.caringbridge.org - a non-profit that provides free, personalized websites for families facing illnesses. You can use CaringBridge to keep friends and family updated on your child's treatment.

www.habitatforhope.org - an organization dedicated to serving and supporting families facing childhood cancer in the Memhis, TN area.

www.alexslemonade.org - an organization dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research.

www.lightthenight.org - an organization dedicated to raising money and awareness for research, treatment, and a cure for blood cancers.

www.curesearch.org - an organization dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research.

www.pcfweb.org - the Pediatric Cancer Foundation's website. The PCF is an organization that is dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research.

www.cota.org - the Children's Organ Transplant Association raises money for children whose only hope for survival is an organ transplant.

www.stjude.org - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital website

www.primaryimmune.org - Immune Deficiency Foundation website

Books

Below is a list of books that families facing childhood cancer or other life-threatening illnesses may find helpful or encouraging.

Life is Tough, but God is Faithful by Sheila Walsh

Tracks of a Fellow Struggler by John Claypool

Written for families who have lost a child to cancer, it is written by a pastor who lost his 10-year-old daughter to leukemia

I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise by Emma Brombeck

A book on children who have survived childhood cancer

Childhood Cancer: A Handbook by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Written for families and loved ones of children diagnosed with cancer, this book explains what cancer is, how it is diagnosed, different treatment options, what to expect, treatment side effects, etc.

Where is God When I Hurt? by Phillip Yancey

Music

Music has an uncanny ability to help us identify what we are feeling and facilitate healing. Below is a list of CDs that are intended for those going through something hard.

Lifesong - Casting Crowns

The Altar and the Door - Casting Crowns

Wherever You Are - Third Day

Hope - Hillsong United

The Face of Love - Sanctus Real

Remedy - David Crowder Band

A Collision - David Crowder Band

Beauty from Pain - Superchic[k]

Break the Grey