Celebration Service for Jo

Monday 19th April at 2pm

You are invited to this time of worship to celebrate the life of Jo Grant and thank God for her.

We ask that you wear whichever clothes you feel most comfortable in and do not feel obliged to wear black. We also ask that you do not send or bring flowers to the service, but instead make a donation to Aquila Way at www.aquilaway.org

Children are most welcome.

The service will be held at:
City Church
The Castlegate
Melbourne Street
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2JQ
www.city-church.co.uk

For those not able to attend, please note the service will be broadcast live at:
www.ustream.tv/channel/jo-grant

We look forward to welcoming you to a wonderful service celebrating the life of an exceptional person.

With love from
the family and friends of Jo Grant

Firstly, please  accept my apologies for not keeping this blog updated. Life rushes on and things change so quickly and for someone who rarely uses technology outside of work, I forget to apply myself to keeping you up to date.

As you maybe aware I’ve returned to work doing 15 hours over three days which has been a real positive step, although my  family sometimes get concerned about how weary I get. But I have learnt to quit early and even not come into work if I’m not up to it – progress indeed!

 Tomorrow sees my second dose of my fourth cycle of chemotherapy which will then cease whilst I have a scan to see whether I’ve responded or not to the treatment. If so they will continue with two further cycles before Christmas, if not then they’ll try something else. Personally I swing between hope and fear. Hope that the scans will show the cancer cells dying, and fear that they will have grown! Thats why your faith has proved so important for me. There are so many of you who stand in faith for my healing and I’m able to cling to that, especially when mine seems weak. I’m constantly grateful that my healing is neither dependant on my faith or my strength, cos I have nothing. I learn more and more daily about God’s strength in my weakness, in fact the song “strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord” seems to tell my story very well.

This morning I saw my eldest son off to start his  gap year in Durban, South Africa with the charity “Lions Raw”. He had originally been due to go early in September but due to a number of delays has only just left, however I can see God’s hand in that as Sean is so much more relaxed about my health, with a stronger sense of trusting God than I have ever seen. For us as a family we have learnt so much about daily trusting God that I find myself with little anxiety about his time away as I am assured that he is following God’s guiding and God is faithful.

The faithfulness of God is something which I want to encourage you to cling to. Throughout the last months medical professionals have changed their story to me frequently, showing me clearly the fickleness of man. God is constant and consistent, his nature does not change and I wonder how others on a similar journey travel this path without knowing a faithful father.

God is good and faithful and worthy of our praise.

love as ever

Jo

Welcome from Jo

Jo

Please use this blog to share prayers, pictures, words, stories etc of how God is at work through this time and I promise to reciprocate in sharing how your prayers for my life are being answered. This isn’t about Jo Grant, nor Aquila, you, nor other agendas other than our heavenly father being glorified and I give Him praise for all he has done and is doing through this journey, rough though it may feel some days.

Yours with love and thanks
Jo