“I was just wiped out,” Mark Campbell said while thinking back on his experience with throat cancer. “I was exhausted, it was painful. I can’t eat. I'm having to consume approximately two hundred ounces of water a day. I mean, I'm just drinking water by the gallons. It's just physically a nightmare.”

“Back in February of 2024, I woke up and walked into the into the bathroom and noticed I had a knot on my neck, about half the size of a golf ball,” Mark said. “I thought, ‘You know, that doesn't really look normal.’ So, I call the Dr. and schedule an appointment. 

“I went in and he sticks the flashlight in my mouth, and within about ten or fifteen seconds of being in the exam room I'm told I have cancer in my tonsils and that he can also see a tumor in the back of my throat,” Mark said. “’As long as you'll follow all the instructions and go through the prescribed treatments then we have a really good chance of winning.’ And he said, ‘But I will tell you that you’re in for the most difficult journey of your life.’”

“I go through about ninety days of induction chemotherapy, praying, ‘God just shrink these tumors and give the doctor a simple surgical procedure,’” Mark said. “And then the doctor looked at me in early May and said, ‘This is great. Everything has shrunk to the point we can take them right out of the front of your mouth, no problem.’”

“The week of July the 4th, starting to take chemo and radiation simultaneously,” Mark said. “I'm experiencing an extreme amount of pain. My saliva glands stop working. I can't eat any solid food. So, I'm having a very difficult time sleeping. It's the most grueling physical experience of my life because I really can't do anything other than just sit in front of a TV, read a book, drink another glass of water. You know, we're just going to trust the Lord to get us through this.”

“On November the 20th, it was revealed that there's no more cancer anywhere in my body, but I'm still fighting through these residual side effects – cottonmouth,” Mark said. “You can't go to the restroom, go to the mailbox, can't do anything without a water in your hand. There are days when it’s just devastating, and you wonder if it will ever get back to normal.”

“And then on Wednesday evening, December the 18th, we were watching The 700 Club, and Gordon Robertson started praying towards the end of the show,” Mark said.

“There's someone else, you're having trouble with your saliva glands and it's like every time you swallow you need either water or some other help because everything is just so completely dry,” Gordon said. “God's able to restore you, whatever was taken from you. I think there was somehow radiation treatments are involved in this. Whatever was taken from you it is being restored now in Jesus' name.”

“My wife and I were watching this and we flew out of the bed,” Mark said. “I mean, I'm going, ‘Yes, that's me! He's speaking directly to me! God is giving me the sign that I am healed.’ About two days after this, all of a sudden, my mouth feels normal again. For the first time in months, I got saliva. I can eat bread for the first time in months. It was like Heaven on Earth.”

“I believe it's a miracle,” Mark said. It’s just the most sensational feeling in the world to know that God has clearly used his power to show you His healing process, and for Him to do something for you that you couldn't do for yourself. I have experienced one of the lowest places you can get to in life through suffering. Now I feel as if I'm on the mountaintop. God has clearly made Himself known to me through His presence in my life and the way He has cared for me. There’s not a greater feeling in the world than to be a Believer and to know that you have a God who loves you, and you just have to trust Him.”

Summer is a single mom with two daughters, Piper and Makenzie. 

“A year ago, we had a house fire, and we're still building ourselves back up. It's crazy, especially with groceries; they've gotten way more expensive. Rent has gotten way more expensive. Just having to move from the fire, our rent’s gone up, like $400,” said Summer.

For Summer, making decisions about what bills to pay and what food to buy has become a regular challenge. 

"My girls, especially my eight-year-old, she's to the point, she was home when the fire happened," Summer said, her voice breaking as she began to cry. "So, she's like… she understands things now, so she's just like, ‘Oh, well make sure Piper eats first, I’ll eat noodles.’"

That’s when she turned to the food pantry at Good News Baptist Church in Virginia, a ministry supported by Operation Blessing.  Each month she’s able to pick up essential groceries and supplies to give her family the extra help they need.

“It’ll help us save money to be able to buy other food for our home,” Summer said.

Thanks to you, Summer’s family—and so many others—are receiving the food they need to move forward with hope.

With tears streaming down her face, Summer said, "Thank you guys. Y'all help so many people. There's a lot of people that need the help."

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“I loved sin. My flesh loved it. My body loved it. Pornography, marijuana, sex was totally a medicine. That was my medicine. My name is Eric Villatoro, and my testimony started all the way from when I was a child. Really, nine months. My parents separated. Uh, they were both immigrants into the United States, Salvadorian and Nicaragua. At nine months, uh, they separated after having me and my mom moved back to Nicaragua. When she moved back to Nicaragua, she took me with her.”

“My mom would take us to mass every now and then. But it was never something that we devoutly did but as I was growing up, I could, I had that thing in me that I just knew that there was a God. And I came into a third world country essentially where we had a lot of dirt, a lot of fun, a lot of pinatas. It was a great, great time, but there was also a lot of brokenness that I came into.” 

“In the midst of all these amazing events that were happening in my life at the age of five years old I was sexually abused for the first time by a family friend. This opened a whole new world for me. I started to notice that my cousins had, uh, were having different types of interactions that were inappropriate, that then I started getting involved with.”

At eight years old, Eric moved to New York City to live with his dad. The abuse followed him. He recalls:

“It went from being molested by a teenager when I was young, to then child on child abuse with cousins to now being in the States, and now it's adults that are molesting me, that were renting from my dad's house. I think by that time I had been through so many different moments, so many different sexual encounters that it was, it was an exciting thing to me. It was almost like I had been brainwashed. But really, I was broken.” 

“My dad wasn't present emotionally in my life. And my mom didn't know. She was still living in Nicaragua, and so I believe that, you know, the diving into the sexual brokenness was the desire to have closeness with somebody.”

Two years later, Eric became an addict. He recalls when he first got hooked:

“The first time that I came across pornography it was an excitement. I mean, it was like a hit of drugs, you know? Because I knew I can access this myself. I can go home in my dad's computer, and I can find this myself. It was totally a rush of, uh, adrenaline in my little heart. Um, and I mean, that, that's what really then led me into a full-blown pornographic addiction. By the age of 10, I was totally hooked.”

“There was addiction to pornography from the age of 10. There was addiction to sex at the age of 14. There was an addiction to marijuana at the age of 18, 19. I mean, it was just a progression. It was just getting worse and worse and worse. But to everybody on the outside, it looked fine to everybody on the outside, it looked like everything was okay. I got to a point, I was finished watching porn, and it's just a disgust with myself. The shame, nobody knew about the shame. But that shame, man, it was a plague in my mind.” 

At 23, Eric’s girlfriend of six years left him. He says it was devastating. 

“Man, just feeling the weight of that heartbreak, I said, 'God, I don't want to ever feel this again. I don't want to feel like this ever again.' And I said, 'come into my life. Change my life. Whatever you wanna do, just do it.' It's a very simple prayer for me. But for God, it was like, man, like He got to work.”

“I used to have this really, I mean, total addiction to pornography. I felt hopeless. And here comes Jesus into my life. Here comes the Word of God into my life. I'm just saying, 'Lord, remove this thing from me. Remove this addiction from me. Help me through this.' The dominion that sin had over me was broken. And so, now I was able to walk in freedom. Slowly but surely, it was happening over time. I was able to forgive the people that had sexually abused me. I was able to forgive my father, um, for not being emotionally there for me. I was able to forgive my mom, you know, for the separation that had happened, her decision to move back. My life was being transformed. I was being healed.”

Now Eric has a new purpose.

“For me it's been amazing to see how God can take something that is totally broken, take something that was dark, shameful, expose it to the light, and now be able to help other people. So, we started ministry called Delafe Testimonies. Um, and we have a vision to record 1 million testimonies. So that other people can see that they're not the only ones that are going through molestation, through...through drug addiction, um, through physical abuse in a home. Like whatever the case may be. They’re not the only ones.”

“Whatever is going on, Jesus can take on that thing. Jesus can heal you. Jesus can restore you. Jesus can save you. Call out to God, say, 'Lord, reveal Yourself to me. Come into my life. I want that. Transform my life.' And man, He'll do it. He'll do it. A hundred percent. He'll do it.”

To learn more about Eric's ministry, Mission Delafė, please visit his website: www.MissionDelafė.org.