In January of 2006 after 3 very frightening episodes, a trip to the hospital and a visit to the cardiologist, I was told I had a Congenital heart Defect called Wolf Parkinson White. WPW is considered a rare disease, about 272,000 people in the US have it. Optional treatment for this disease is being medicated for your entire life to control the attacks of tachycardia or a sugery called ventricular ablation. After being on the medication which left me tired all the time, I opted for the sugery. I have had a clean bill of health since March of 2006 and I am so grateful. Next month is CHD awareness month.

Here are a few ways you can help:Join our circle of hearts fundraiser. “Circle of Hearts” is an online fundraising and awareness campaign designed to educate friends and family about Congenital Heart Defects, and raise money to support the programs and services provided by The Congenital Heart Information Network.

Also I am putting on a HUGE event at World Gym Postfalls on valentines/CHD awareness day, february 14th. Join us for classes, prizes, fun and donate to a cause that is very close to my heart! More details to come soon!

Thankyou so much, Please feel free to email me with any questions!Visit our team web page at http://tchin.kintera.org/worldgympfand help me in my efforts to support Congenital Heart Information Network!

Thanks, Rachel Larsen

CHD Awareness

In January of 2006 after 3 very frightening episodes, a trip to the hospital and a visit to the cardiologist, I was told I had a Congenital heart Defect called Wolf Parkinson White. WPW is considered a rare disease, about 272,000 people in the US have it. Optional treatment for this disease is being medicated for your entire life to control the attacks of tachycardia or a sugery called ventricular ablation. After being on the medication which left me tired all the time, I opted for the sugery. I have had a clean bill of health since March of 2006 and I am so grateful. Next month is CHD awareness month. CHD is found primarily in Children. Here are a few ways you can help:

SPONSOR A CHILD'S TREATMENT
Little drops make an ocean. Your small contributions will help give a child a chance. Donate just $5 or $10 towards the cost of treating a child with congenital heart defects. Click here to give now

TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THIS SITE
On the Internet, word-of-mouth is the most powerful way to spread a message. We've made it extremely easy for you to spread the word about 'A Day For Hearts' - and even offer you a prize to make it more exciting. Click here to get started

SEND A SPECIAL VALENTINE'S DAY CARD
A message from your own heart. This February 14th, send your heart-throb a lovely special CHD Awareness card. Click here to send a card

EMAIL A FRIEND A PAGE FROM THIS SITE
You can also email a page from this site to a friend using our easy-to-use page mailer program. Just enter your friend's name and email address, then click a button - learn more about it here


BECOME OUR PARTNER
Become a Partner of 'CHD Awareness Day' and you'll help more children with heart defects, and support our role as a dynamic force in the struggle against CHD.
As a Partner, your name will be proudly displayed on the site and very soon you'll be eligible for many special offers from other partners. We welcome you to join our circle of Partners today! Click here to learn more

TELL POTENTIAL SPONSORS ABOUT 'A DAY FOR HEARTS'
Advertising and sponsorship revenue can do more to help children with heart defects. And all corporate and other donations do more with us. By streamlining processes, we have brought healthcare costs in developing countries to a bare minimum while ensuring the highest standards of patient care.
Advertising on this site carries more than commercial benefit. It offers our sponsors the opportunity to bask in the glow of goodwill that goes with an effort to save the lives of children.
For more information on becoming a sponsor, click here

PROMOTE 'A DAY FOR HEARTS' IN YOUR EMAIL SIGNATURES
Another way you can support this program is by sending out the URL of this website in all your emails. You don't have to do this manually each time. Simply set your email program's SIGNATURE block to include the text below:
Show Your Support For Heart Kids. Visit the webpage for 'A Day For Hearts' - Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Day Go to ==> http://www.chdinfo.com/chdaware/chdspecial.htm
Please feel free to copy and paste the block into your signature file.

DISPLAY A CHD AWARENESS BANNER OR BUTTON ON YOUR WEBSITE
If you have a website of your own, please consider displaying a picture (banner or small button graphic) that explains 'A Day For Hearts' on it. This is an easy, effective way to help in the promotion of CHD awareness day. Click here to see how it's done

Salvation

I am not sure how much emotion the human body can take? Over the last few days I have discovered it can take ALOT! It is amazing how you can be sad, happy, angry, afraid,desprate, content, numb and fearful all at the same time. I am so sad to live in such a dying and sometimes down right evil world! How people can be so caught up in material things, how can there be so much hate in a persons heart, how can you abandon all reason for personal gain and why oh why are people So SELFISH?? I have literally gotten down on my knees and prayed to God to take us out of this pit we feel we have fallen into. Then he reminded me as He said in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong"
Yes Lord my salvation is enough !! Thank you for your promises!!

Acts 2:25-28
'I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 26Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will live in hope, 27because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay. 28You have made known to me the paths of life; " 'I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 26Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will live in hope, 27because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay. 28You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence. you will fill me with joy in your presence.

What will you write? Our Daily Bread January 4th, 2007


You do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. —James 4:14


In January 2006, a mine explosion in rural West Virginia threatened the lives of 13 coal miners. Having grown up in that state, I was among the millions riveted to the news for the next few days. Tragically, all but one of the miners were found dead. To compound the pain of that loss, the first reports given to the families said that all but one had been found alive. When the grim news of the deaths came, the grief was compounded with anger—and a desire to blame someone for the whole gut-wrenching event.
At one of the funerals, however, Rev. Wease Day asked the hurting to look in a different direction—within. During their last hours, some of the miners had written notes to their families, in some cases offering comfort and hope. In light of that, Pastor Day urged his congregation not to seek to fix blame. He instead challenged them to imagine what they would write in a farewell note if they had only hours to live.
In some ways we are like those miners. We are trapped in a dark world and are facing physical death. How we live our lives as followers of Christ becomes our “note” to the world. James wrote that life is “a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away” (4:14). By God’s grace, what will you write with your life today? —Bill Crowder

Lord and Savior, Christ divine,Reign within this heart of mine;May my witness ever beAlways, only, Lord for Thee. —Brandt

A Christlike life is a message of hope to a searching world.

Well done good and faithful servant...

Dear Papa,

It has not even been a week since you passed into the loving arms of your savior Jesus Christ and we miss you desperately! Some times the pain is so deep you cant even imagine it and there are no words to describe it as well! people ask how we are doing? I know it is their way of trying to communicate and console but the truth is we are hurting, mourning and deeply saddened. Time is supposed to heal wounds but I think that even time wont fully heal this one. I want to ask you to please tell Jesus to be close to Karen and Mike right now, they both feel so very alone, be there to comfort them in those lonely times. Mavric told us he wanted his best friend back and Sydney cried so very hard when we told her you went home to be with Jesus, please console their little hearts. I put all your pictures together today for you slide show and it was so hard to do, I loved to see your happy round face but it was so sad to know that here on this earth I will never see that face or feel that warm bear hug you would always give me. I will look forward to our heavenly meeting and the return of your hugs! You are in a heaven now and I can only imagine how beautiful it must be. I know that it is everything you deserve, beautiful beyond words, free of pain and suffering! I am so glad I had the chance to tell you how much you mean to me , that I love you and that the very last thing you said to me was I love you. It makes my heart glad. I promise you I will take care of your precious grand kids and that Mike and I will do everything in our power to take care of your lovely wife. We miss you and love you, rest easy now in the arms of your savior. I know he is saying to you" Well done my good and faithful servant!" I love you! Your adoring daughter