Prayers request for baby Owen's family

I have just learned that our Pastor Amanda's little baby boy, Owen, whom you have lifted up in prayer many times over the past several months,  passed away yesterday morning. The last I understood that St.Jude asked them to return after he was sent home on hospice care. They did another round of chemo because his cancer growth seemed to have come to a hault and so they did another round with the hopes he would respond. They recovered from that round and were even able to go on a vacation with their families to a NC beach. But he soon became sick and they air lifted him to Duke where it was confirmed that his brain tumor was growing and spreading quickly down his spine. After stablized, he was sent home with his parents where they said their final goodbyes days later. This pain, this devistation, this heartbreak has no words. Whatever words we can find even if they are silent, please keep this family close to your hearts as they go through the unimaginable. Please keep them in your prayers with the hope that their strong faith will help carry them through as god holds them close in love and comfort. It has been said and only understood by parents who have gone through this, that the journey for survival for the child transforms into an indescribable lifelong journey of survival for the parents. God, hold them close until they can see their sweet baby again.

I intended to write an update regarding Charlotte, but I can feel my emotions are running high as I am learning how easily I absorb the highs and lows of other people's journey. So for now, I'll wait and just say she is doing well so far this week with just some fevers to deal with. Thanks for pausing to pray for peace for Owen and his parents Amanda and Justin.

A few recent pictures of Owen and of his parents (at his baptism) so you can visualize them as you hold them close in prayer.