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Jessie's Well - Compassion International

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Channel: Compassion International · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Jessie developed intense pain in her thigh that moved to her shoulder. While trying to find the source of the inflammation in 2007, doctors discovered cancer in Jessie’s lung, shoulder, hips and spine. The then-15-year-old had epithelioid hemangioendothelioma — a rare tumor that may occur in the lining of the blood vessels and can be cancerous, as it was for Jessie.

Jessie hoped to be involved with her youth group’s annual mission trip to serve the community of Santiago, Dominican Republic, in April 2008. Jessie’s doctor hesitantly gave the green light for her to go, but a dangerous drop in her white blood cells before the trip reversed that decision.

On April 26, 2008, Jessie wrote in her online journal: As many of you know, I was not able to go on my youth group’s mission trip to the Dominican Republic. At first I was pretty upset. I had so looked forward to going on the trip and doing work for God. … But, as always, God has a plan for everything! We were able to scholarship the money I had raised to our church to help kids who had gone on the mission trip but hadn’t been able to raise all of the money.

Jessie took her final breath on Sept. 8, 2008, after developing kidney failure related to the cancer.

To honor Jessie’s life, her parents and her Uncle Rob set up a fund and prayed for guidance on how to use the money that family and friends donated over the next few years. The Garrens wanted to fulfill their daughter’s desire to serve children in the Dominican Republic, and they learned through a friend at church how Compassion helps get safe water to kids around the world.

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