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Help David raise money

For participating in 2022 Cleveland Marathon

My Story…

My son, Joshua Metzger, passed away in December 2008 at the age of 8.  He was diagnosed with DIPG,  a brain stem cancer, in October of 2008.  Before that, he was a very healthy and active young man.  Josh enjoyed playing sports, watching movies, riding his bike, amusement parks, and many other things that a healthy 8 year old enjoys.  

I learned about Prayers from Maria in 2013, when I was training for my first marathon.   I had never known much about DIPG, and found a loving group of families that had also lost children to this disease.  Prayers from Maria's main goals are to raise awareness of DIPG, and to raise money to help fight this disease. 

I will be running the Cleveland Half Marathon on May 22, as part of the Prayers from Maria Sunflower Striders team.  I am hoping to raise money to help support research that will once and for all defeat childhood brain cancer.  In 2017,  Prayers from Maria awarded the Josh Metzger Memorial Fox Trot Grant to the Case Western Reserve University of Medicine.https://case.edu/medicine/about/newsroom/our-latest-news/new-research-aims-improve-lives-children-high-grade-glioma

https://www.prayersfrommaria.org/about/news/josh-metzger-memorial-fox-trot-grant

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Please consider a donation today.  


Thank you. 

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At Prayers From Maria we believe in hope. Our seed funding supports critical cancer research for kids, delivering more targeted, lifesaving treatments. 
 

Plant the Seeds. Grow the Movement. Let's End Childhood Brain Cancer!

Recent donors

Donation date Donor name Donation amount
May 20 Tim & Peggy Hallo Love and miss you Josh! $54.43
May 16 Rebecca Shaw $43.73
May 16 Hayden Grafton $27.68
May 16 Kathleen Butke Erlich $107.94
May 15 Goran & Lisa Pesevski $107.94
Apr 17 Jen & Shawn Our love to you and Josh. Undisclosed amount
Mar 28 Whitey and Sue McClendon $107.94
Mar 28 John Metzger $536.02
Mar 25 Jim Bair Undisclosed amount
Mar 25 Darrell & Tiffany Lewis $50.00