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| September 10, 2006
Legacy Concert was amazing!!
Dear friends,
I know that you feel the same way we (the family) feel when
I say that the concert on Friday night was simply beautiful!
The place was packed with people who loved Rick, and some
who didn't even know him but knew of God's awesome power at
work through his life and death. I am still reeling from the
emotion and the amazing things God did throughout the evening.
Thank you so much to all of you who were able to attend and
make the night a success! I am still blown away by your support
of my family and the championing of God's fame through Rick's
story. He truly has left a Legacy that is so God focused and
honoring! Thank you for participating in that.
I wanted to let you know where we stand with our goal for
the Memorial Fund. If you were at the concert, you know that
our goal for this year is to raise $30,000 to fund a Child
Survival Project through Compassion International. This project
entails building and staffing a facility to help medically
care for infants and children born into disease and poverty,
as well as help educate mothers about proper nutrition and
care for their children. The project will be set up in a very
impoverished area of Africa, and the hope that it can bring
to the children of the community is beyond explanation. We
are praying for the full $30,000 to be raised by the end of
the year.
Because of your outstanding generosity at the concert, we
are about 1/3 of the way there, which is amazing. Now we are
concentrating on ways to raise the remainder of the balance,
as well as extra funds so that we are able to give to the
other ministries and organizations supported by the Memorial
Fund.
Thank you again. We are so excited about what God is still
doing on this journey with Him. He is always faithful, beyond
what we can comprehend!
much love.
Candi
P.S. Rememer... if you weren't able to come to the concert
but would still like the opportunity to contribute financially,
you can simply write a check to "The National Christian
Foundation", and in the memo line, write "Rick Pearson
Memorial". You can then mail it to this address:
The National Christian Foundation
1100 Johnson Ferry Road, N.E., Suite 900
Atlanta, GA 30342
Monday, February 24, 2006
Friends and Family,
It’s a new beginning and a time for celebration. We are celebrating Rick’s life and carrying on his legacy by supporting the four ministries in which he was involved:
photo courtesy of Angela Morris
.:Compassion International:.
.:Passion Conferences:.
.:BigStuf:.
.:Mountain Lake Church:.
Please take a little time and visit each one of these sites to get a glimpse of Rick’s heart and the ministries that he loved and firmly supported. We are excited about this new embarkment on the journey of reflecting God's heart by offering an extension of Rick's. This website will be the "mothership" for relaying new information to you. We will have updates posted here periodically concerning the family as well as future Benefit Concert information. Also, keep checking in on the blogs. We love hearing from all of you. Your comments, prayers and support have been a breath of fresh air to us. Keep them coming! We love you all.
If you would like to donate via credit card, please use PayPal
and the funds will be directed to the Rick Pearson Memorial
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Monday, September 19, 2005
Friends and family,
When we decided to do this web site back at the first of August, it was meant
to simply be an instrument to help the family manage details and information
so people would know what was going on and what to pray for. We also knew it
would help lots of people feel like they could keep in touch without disturbing
the family. God had other thoughts in mind. He used it as a compass, to point
people straight to Him. He used it as a devotional guide to allow people
to meditate on His word and on their lives. He used it as a wonderful comfort
and encourager as so many of you expressed your hearts and your prayers.
It brought smiles when smiles were hard to find. It brought tears of joy when
we saw what God was doing in the midst of confusion. It brought families and
friends together and bonded old relationships and created new. It miraculously
brought people who didn't even know this family, to a newfound faith in Jesus.
As we have said before Rick was leading people in worship even as he lay unconscious
and has continued to do that as we have heard of people hearing his story and
becoming Christians even since last Monday. The stories, I am sure will continue
for a long time to come.
One of the ways we want to Remember Rick and allow those stories
to continue is through his own story and his music. We have a dvd of his
memorial service and a cd of the songs he sang at BigStuf and on a few of our
CD's. They should be available sometime soon this week. They are
incredible!!
You can click on the following link if you would like one or both of these or
you can write and request them by clicking
here . We
are making them available and asking for donations to pay for them. All of the
donations will go toward the expenses incurred during Rick's illness. They
can be as little as $15 each or as much as you would like to donate. When you
send your email just let us know what you are requesting and we will email you
back what you need to do.
This site will continue to stay up for a while and you can feel free to send
the family messages in the comments section of the posts on the blogs.
Please continue to pray for the family and for Suzanne as they continue on this
difficult journey.
Lanny Donoho
Friday,
September 9, 2005
Friends
and family...
Richard Keith Pearson was gloriously and miraculously healed
on Friday, September 9th 2005 when he entered into the presence
of his Savior. A week of remembrance and rejoicing has followed.
Please refer to the "My Blog" portion of
this website in order to read some excerpts from the service. They
are well worth the time!
For now, we want to let you read the last 4 entries into Rick's journal. These
were the last entries he made before he slipped into the coma. We hope they will
encourage you as much as they have encouraged us...
Jeffrey and Shannon
By Rick Pearson from
the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Northside Hospital, Atlanta, GA
08/07/05
A way to express the newness and fear of what I’ve been through in the
past couple of days is something I’ve found hard to explain. Lots
lead up to two days ago, but when Leukemia was the new battle, things changed. Not
in my heart or in my mind- God has truly been constant in holding me high- but
the unkown procedures, and the weight of being chosen to be someone whom God
has chosen to do something powerful through is staggeringly sobering. I’ve
often wondered about what it must feel like to be a great apostle who suffered
to carry God’s word and hope to places. I think I’m beginning
to feel the weight, and for now at least, I will accept the task of bringing
hope to a cancer ward.
The support has been the most humbling thing I’ve ever known. To
see a world of people who have impacted my life, and in some minescule way have
been touched by mine, all pull together to support me and make God famous is
my breath. Then at the end of the day, there’s the three of us: Me,
Great Big God, and the wonderful woman who became my fiance yesterday! No
one will ever be able to adequately be told or read about the rock that Suzanne
has been to me. Her words and prayers are always in perfect time with where
my heart is- or needs to be. When all is said and done, she will be the
one who gets me and lots of others through this.
Today I stand on how important it is to realize that my suffering is sharing
in Christ’s to develop a truer open faith:
“Consider
it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You
know that under pressure, Your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its
true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let
it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any
way.” - James1:1-2
08/08/05
“A righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers Him from
the all; He protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken.” -Psalm
34:19-20
Chemo started an hour and 1/2 ago and today begins the acid test of what I believe. Trusting
God with the future without questioning whether I will have children, whether
I will keep my faith and whether I can help my fiance find what to do. In
the middle of the craziness, my family goes home today, and the support from
all churches and all cards is still staggering. I look forward to fighting
right now. I’m anxious to see how God’s glory will fall this
night. I want my reflection to be a pure one.
So- as I gear up for the first bout, it’s my prayer that I be found faithful
enough to honor Him.
08/09/05
It’s hard to describe the feeling of what is SUPPOSED to be helping you-
being what is also bringing you closest to your point of death. This stuff
feels like it’s been swimming all night and was restored to full force
with the second dose this morning. After assessing what’s happening
and the minimal side effects, I have to rest in the calm I woke in this morning. Today
was the first day I was assured everything was going to be alright. I’ve
been in the furnace and emerged unbound and unburned!
08/14/05
New life finds me today. With bilirubin soaring to 14 yesterday and back
down to 13 there is little comfort, but still God’s arms hold me! I’m
encouraged when I should not be, knowing that only God’s way will work
all this out. He’ll be the one to say when and where. I would
like the role myself right now, but it’s a great thing for everyone, including
doctors, to have to wait on God’s perfect timing for me… That is
a miracle. So I rejoice today- with a guitar, a treadmill, and lots of
high school friends who realized we all care at some point!
Today was a good day.
“My soul finds rest in God alone. My salvation comes from Him. He
alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress, I will never be shaken.” -Psalm
62:1-2
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