Celebrating Transplants! 🎉🎉🎉

Transplant Celebrations!

On July 11, we will celebrate the 21st anniversary of Emily’s double lung transplant.

Earlier this year, the gift of life touched Emily’s family again but in a different way.  On March 24, Emily’s cousin Jeff, donated part of his liver to his friend Luke, who would die without this vital organ.  Who knew, back when these pictures were taken, that Emily and Jeff would have one more special thing in common - one, Emily, having received the gift of life, and Jeff, having given the gift of life!

Emily would be (and is) proud of Jeff, Luke and all organ donors and recipients.

2026 Jeff standing next to Luke post transplant.

To end this short, but celebratory post, here are a few photos of sweet memories of Jeff and Emily together - enjoy!

Ash Wednesday 2024: Remembering Joy in Suffering

Hello everyone!

Knowing how much Emily loved Jesus and spent her time serving Him and spreading her faith, we couldn’t let Lent or the time leading up until the Holy Resurrection Easter celebration pass without doing something special. For this Ash Wednesday, we wanted to share some former content from Emily that we think will bring encouragement and the Lord can use to guide you.

First, we wanted to share archived videos from Emily of her book club commentary on each chapter of her book, Living Memento Mori. These would be great if you’re using her book for a book club or for your individual journey through as well. These are housed on Facebook, so please sign in to access them
(Click the image below).

Click the image to access Emily’s archived commentary videos for Living Memento Mori.

“A life that has suffering can still be a life of joy.”

Emily had a great conversation with Kyle Heimann in February 2020 in which she talked about some of the things she was going through and how her book was her life and not just a book. She wrote it with the hopes of it reaching others facing similar trials or needing some hope. Our quote from the interview was, “A life that has suffering can still be a life of joy.”, and we hope you all can take time to meditate on that with the Lord as we go into Lent.

Lastly, we plan to post more helpful content over the next 6 weeks of Lent up until Good Friday. There will be special messages from those who knew Emily, more videos, and content Emily shared previously. Please comment if you have anything specific you’d like to see touched on in the coming weeks.

May whatever you planned to fast be a holy and pleasing offering to the Lord. May He fill you with strength and his protection as you grow closer to Him.