Offer Hope

Temporal Hope

Most individuals, when diagnosed with cancer, are desperate for hope -- hope they will be cured and survive the cancer journey. While a cancer support group can't bring physical healing, they can bring comfort, extend mercy and grace, and love them, which makes the cancer journey easier to bear. Their burden is lightened, because it's shared, and they receive comfort, knowing they're not alone in the battle. Unfortunately, while this relief is wonderful and healing, this relief is only temporal.

The Only Eternal Hope

When we face the reality of cancer and the shortness of life, we're also desperate for hope beyond this temporal life. We're uncertain of what the future holds and are facing our mortality, possibly for the first time. The ultimate blessing that a Christian cancer support group has to offer participants is the eternal hope found only in Jesus Christ.

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son,
that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."
John 3:16

The Privilege

At the Outreach of Hope, after we've loved those who are desperate for hope and tilled the soil of their hearts, often times we're asked to share the hope that lives inside of us. The door to their hearts is opened from within. We consider it a privilege to have earned the right to share with them the only eternal hope in the world that can never be taken from them.

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! I
n His great mercy, He has given us new birth into a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade -- kept in heaven for you."
1 Peter 1:3-4

The Christian cancer support group will have that same privilege as you till the soil of each participant's heart with comfort, mercy, grace and love. You will have the privilege to point their eyes heavenward and enrich their lives forevermore.

"Therefore we do not lose heart.
Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Jan Dravecky