Hearts In Action

Dear Friends and Family, It’s GIVING Tuesday, and we hope you will choose Team Summer to support!! The pandemic has blocked many of our normal fundraising efforts, and we need you now more than ever to keep this wonderful organization going! A group of amazing Team Summer supporters – listed at the bottom of this post! – have put together…

Back in 2017 when Kyler was just three years old, he started having low grade fevers and complained of a bad pain in his leg. His pediatrician thought maybe it was juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Then two days before Thanksgiving, a bone marrow biopsy showed Kyler had cancer – leukemia. Three days later, chemo started. Gives…

Dear Friends and Family, Eight years ago today we lost Summer. Oh, how I miss her! Even the briefest flash of memory – her voice, her smile – can still bring me to my knees. Yet, I can’t tell you what a comfort it is to know her spirit lives on through our Team Summer…

Here’s a gift received in the before-time! Before Covid-19, that is. That explains the proximity of the kids and the lack of masks… Meet 7-year-old Kendell! He’s what you call a daredevil. Jumps, runs, and races like he’s already grown. You know the kind – the kind who scares his mother half to death! But…

This is the story of Team Summer kid named Briley who has done something amazing! Some Team Summer kids just stand out. Take Kayla for example. She became a Team Summer kid when she was 11 years old. She gave 12 Team Summer gifts over a three-year period…all while battling a brain tumor. That was…

Seventeen-year-old Trevor is a sports guy! Baseball’s his favorite, and he played as much of it as he could in high school, excelling as a starting pitcher and first baseman. That is, until some weird symptoms began to plague him: fatigue, fevers, lightheadedness. His coaches said they thought he looked pale. Even before his doctors…

For Amanda, life was pretty normal until last year. You know, the usual – the fun of being a junior in high school, hanging out with her friends. So normal you don’t even know it’s normal. Then the pain started in her knee. And it just got worse. An MRI told the story – Amanda…

It should have been nothing more than a slip and fall for 10-year-old Landon. Sure, it hurt – he landed right on his tailbone – but that should have been the end of it. Except it wasn’t. Instead of getting better, Landon got worse – to the point where he was having trouble getting up…

TEAM SUMMER IS ADAPTING! We will not let a virus stop us!! COVID-19 has affected all of us in so many ways. As you might imagine, adapting to a new normal at Team Summer has been especially challenging. Chemotherapy is designed to suppress our kids’ immune systems, making them among the most susceptible to the virus….

Remember Davis? He’s the kid who wanted to give a gift before he got one! Talk about a Team Summer heart! In the last blog post, we told you that he contacted Team Summer asking if he could give a gift to his friend who was battling leukemia. We told him “absolutely!” but first we…