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You may wonder...
How can you be joyful if you are mourning a loss?
That’s what this site is about ... You see it is a true story,
A TRUE LOVE STORY ...

Perhaps you lost someone close to you like our family, especially my daughter, Rebecca, did. Our purpose is to bring you hope and help you through to joyful mourning!   It can happen!     It happened like this ....

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Listen to “Beautiful” by
Rebecca Woodworth Laird
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The story begins ......

Resources for Purchase to help you through.

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International Bible Society - inexpensive materials

Mourning into Dancing Cassette

Mourning into Dancing Hardcover

Joy Comes in the Mourning

Joy Comes after the Mourning

In the Mourning CD

Mourning to Morning (B)

Gift of Mourning Glories B

12 Christian Beliefs that Can Drive You Crazy!

My daughter, Rebecca, was married in 1994 to a young man by the name of Tedd Woodworth, whom she had met in Bible College. Unfortunately, only 4 months later, the doctors determined that he had advanced stage Hodgkins disease, a  form of cancer.

Tedd underwent chemotherapy and recovered quickly, but by the end of 1995, it had come back.

The only hope after standard treatment had failed was a bone marrow transplant. It was a long, hard, and dangerous procedure, but in the spring of 1996, Tedd received the transplant and survived! He did so well that he tied the record for the earliest discharge ever from the University of Michigan Medical Center. Once again it looked as though the treatment had succeeded.

He grew stronger and stronger throughout the rest of that year, as he recovered from the bone marrow procedure, but in the summer of 1996, Tedd had already found  some small lumps in his body again. Since he was still gaining strength and was symptom-free, they were confident that the lumps were just scar tissue under the skin.

He applied for an associate pastor’s job in rural  Cumberland Virginia. (The nearest McDonald's was about 1/2 an hour away. Now that is rural!) Despite his medical history, and uncertain future, he was hired. Tedd and his young wife they built up the youth group from 5 or 6 teens to over 30 in less than six months..The mild Virginia weather and some natural food supplements had helped to keep Pastor Tedd healthy - so healthy that he did not need to see a doctor for all of 1997!

But in the spring of 1998, again the cancer returned. There was nothing left to do for him but pray. Hundreds if not thousands of people in many churches prayed, but Pastor Tedd died peacefully on July 20,  1998. And there was Rebecca, ....... a widow at 26 years old!

The rest of the story .....

 

Background - Virginia - 2004
Sunrise - Cartersville Road

For Photos of the Church and Virginia as of 2004 Click Here

[Bec & Tedd] [Becca] [New Beginnings] [Broken Clay] [Joyful Mourning] [Bad Day] [Faith] [The Investor] [Virginia 2004]

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