Notes from my folks on joining our team of conquerors

Dear Family and Friends, In May, our oldest son, Jeremy was diagnosed with testicular cancer. You may be familiar with this type of cancer due to Lance Armstrong's battle with the same disease. Some of you have already been cheering us and Jeremy on from both the frontlines and the sidelines, while others of you may be receiving this news for the very first time. You may know us up close and personally, or perhaps you're aquainted with our family and circumstances through a different means. Whatever the connection we believe that God's brought us all together for our good and His glory.

Many of you have asked; "How can we help?" A trust has been set up and contributions can be made at any Bank of America location to the (Jeremy Kleidosty "More than a Conqueror" Trust) Account # 004971955895. Financial support for both short term needs with medical and living expenses during treatment as well as long term needs to attend the University at St.Andrews are areas you can contribute. Support can be pledged on a monthly basis for a one year commitment, or given in a one time donation. But it also can be extended in other ways - sent as a card of encouragement, provided by a meal, received through babysitting, experienced by accompanying Jeremy on a chemo treatment, or simply yet powerfully felt through prayer. However you contribute we pray that the Lord will repay your kindness and multiply His blessings back to you.

Growing in God's grace, The Kleidosty's, Dustin, Melissa & Families

Mail can be sent to Jeremy and Elizabeth C/O Dustin & Melissa Kleidosty 14831 Shorewood Ct. Midlothian, Va. 23112
E-mail to jkleidosty@hotmail.com
Jeremy will be updating his blog at http://www.genyblog.blogspot.com as things progress and his health permits. Below you will find an exerpt from a much more detailed letter posted at this blog which he wrote during his stay at the hospital. This will give you a clearer picture of Jeremys family, circumstances and needs as well his heart and a place for you to post comments.( It's a great read!) When you click on the adds at this site it generates anywhere from .02 to 50 cents per hit. So please click away. Now for an abbreviated word from Jeremy ~ Tuesday, June 14, 2005 More Than a Conqueror "But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us." (Romans 8:37) This verse holds the key to unlocking victory when life goes from smooth sailing to stormy seas, when your vow to love "in sickness and in health" becomes an active deed rather than a theoretical promise, when circumstances are stacked against you, when the doctor says "it's cancer." Six weeks ago, as I awoke from surgery that began as a diagnostic and became a therapeutic operation, those words were spoken to me. Just shy of my twenty-sixth birthday I was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Shortly after receiving the news that my particular type of cancer, embryonal carcinoma, which is an aggressive form of the disease, had spread to at least one lymph node and that I would probably require at least one more surgery in addition to chemo therapy, I also received a letter by airmail from the University of St. Andrews. (www.st-andrews.ac.uk) -Just below the school crest I read the following greeting: "Dear Mr. Kleidosty We are delighted to inform you..." No further reading was needed to know what this letter was. I had been accepted into the M. Litt Program for International Political Thought at the third-oldest university in the English speaking world! Prince William just graduated with his Bachelor's from this same department. In the midst of this great trial we had been given a great and glorious gift. Not only hope, but a reassurance that there was indeed a plan for my future (Jeremiah 29) and that this plan was good. - Gone were thoughts of survival and getting through. Now my mind was fixed upon this new task and opportunity. Cancer became an obstacle to overcome, not a condition to survive. Mentally, I instantaneously moved from surviving to thriving. Hope unexpectedly reborn is even sweeter than when a dream is first birthed. Needless to say, God is good. The future too looks good despite the painful and difficult experiences it holds. I say this not to be discouraging, but to be real. Since this past friday (June 10) I have been hospitalized for a retroperitoneal lympnode dissection. This is the other operation I mentioned earlier. This has been one of the most difficult things I have ever experienced. ~ Please keep us in your prayers as I recover and as Elizabeth takes on several responsibilities that I cannot currently handle. Please remember to lift up our boys as well. For now, please know how phenomenally grateful we are for the cards, calls, e-mails, financial help, baby-sitting, wise counsel, and overwhelming love. I still haven't shed one tear for cancer, but I would be lying if I didn't admit that I've shed several for your faithfulness and generosity that so accurately reflect the image of our Risen King. Love, blessing's and peace be with you all! Jeremy Elizabeth, Gabriel and Noah too!!:-) This entire letter can be enjoyed along with other interesting perspectives of Jeremy's by visiting http://www.genyblog.blogspot.com .