“I don’t know how you could hear my story and my testimony and not believe that there is a God.”

That’s how Cameron Cortman describes his miraculous, death-defying journey — a remarkable voyage of trust, survival, and true reliance in the face of life-altering storms.

Cortman, 24, said his family’s harrowing experience began when he was a 1-year-old and his parents were preparing to move to Virginia Beach, Virginia.

But on the day of their move, something happened that would change the course of their lives.

“I got sick with an ear infection in the hustle and bustle of moving,” he told CBN News. “My mom took me to the doctor. She thought it was just a routine ear infection. I had been getting them a lot lately.”

But Cortman’s mom felt deep in her gut that something else was going on. In fact, after the doctor prescribed antibiotics, she paused to share something she experienced on the way to his office.

“[She said], ‘Actually, on the way over here, the Lord spoke to me and told me that something is seriously wrong and that we need to go to the hospital,’ which is just a wild thing to say to a doctor,” Cortman recounted. “But, thankfully … the doctor was a Christian and he said, ‘Who am I to really argue with the Lord? So we can send you to the hospital.’”

Despite the doctor feeling relatively unconcerned at the time, he knew Cortman’s mother was resolute that she had heard from God. So he complied and called an ambulance — a fortunate choice considering what happened next.

“They start to run pretty much every test imaginable, and they come back a few hours later and say, ‘We’re so sorry, 95% of your son’s blood cells are leukemia. He probably won’t make it through the night,’” Cortman said.

The shocking news, which upended the family’s lives, confirmed everything his mother had felt.

“As you can imagine, it’s just a mix of utter disbelief, and shock, and starting to grieve, and really just confusion of what to do,” Cortman said. “And I think you kind of immediately go into a mode of, ‘OK, let’s figure out next steps.’”

Cortman began intense chemotherapy, which carried its own risks for such a young child.

And the family began pressing into the community around them, with Cortman expressing how “blessed” they were to have loving people around to help care for both him and his brother.

Leaning into God and prayer, though, were the main recipes for tackling the chaos.

“They just really sought to … understand from the Lord how they could be faithful through the journey,” Cortman said.

These tools were essential as Cortman faced four years of hospital stays, chemotherapy, and other interventions. Along the way, the uncertainty required a profound reliance on the Almighty.

“It was one of those situations where, ‘OK, I lived a week,’ then they’re like, ‘Let’s see how long he can live,’ basically, which is crazy to say,” Cortman said. “I can’t even imagine being my parents and just never really knowing if I was going to make it the next day, or the next month, or the next year.”

Remarkably, the cancer eventually disappeared, something Cortman said was “miraculous.” And that’s not all.

“What’s crazy about that situation — other than the fact that I was completely cured from cancer — is they said to my parents, ‘Although he is cancer free, he’s not out of the woods. So there is a very good chance that he’s not able to speak like everyone else would. He might not be able to walk. He might not be able to talk,’” Cortman said, noting these dire effects could have come from the chemotherapy.

He continued, “The chances of it having serious side effects on your brain, on your body is very high. So to go from that to where I am today … a former college athlete [who] had the opportunity to play sports at the highest level, it’s just only God.”

Cortman, who is now the director of digital marketing at Great American Media, a company that produces faith and family-friendly programming, said the entire experience has made him intensely driven and devoted in all he does.

His focus today is spreading the Gospel and working to advance the Christian faith, helping brands like Great American Family and Great American Pure Flix create and market positive, faith-affirming content.

“What I love about my role at Great American is I can wake up every day and know that … the social media posts that my team is creating or the ads that we’re making, we’re really pushing out good into society in a culture of entertainment that is doing the exact opposite,” Cortman said. “So, I do feel like we are a light in the entertainment industry and it’s so cool to be able to use what I’m passionate about and creative about in marketing while also still glorifying the Lord.”

He praised his company for giving families, individuals, and parents a safe experience watching TV and movies — something he called truly “unique.”

“We are telling these really impactful faith redemption stories that I think just really inspire and uplift people, and they’re extremely relatable to journeys that everyone has gone through,” Cortman said.

Connecting the dots between his own medical miracle, God’s plan for his life, and an undying trust, Cortman’s journey to Great American Media is a fascinating one. But his faith is truly driving it all — a deeply fostered and abiding love rooted in his family’s journey.

Reflecting back on the experience, Cortman said he can’t imagine what it was like for his parents to grapple with potentially losing their baby at any moment.

The ordeal moved him closer to his Christian faith and shaped his beliefs, with his parents providing a powerful example for him to follow.

“So much of my faith … I credit to them because I think most people in situations like that, it’s very easy for them to turn against God, turn against each other,” he said. “The fact that they relied on God through that and then came out on the other side stronger … their marriage is still very strong and that their faith is still very strong — I don’t think that I would have the same faith that I have today had they not responded the way they did through that whole journey.”
Sources:faithwire

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ഹൂസ്റ്റൺ :ഹൂസ്റ്റണ്‍ ആസ്‌ഥാനമായി പ്രവർത്തിച്ചുവരുന്ന ഇന്‍റർനാഷണൽ പ്രയർലെെൻ മാർച്ച് 11 ചൊവാഴ്ച സംഘടിപ്പിച്ച 565-ാമത് സമ്മേളനത്തില്‍ ബൈബിൾ അധ്യാപകൻ, പത്രപ്രവർത്തകൻ, എഴുത്തുകാരൻ, ചരിത്രകാരൻ എന്നീ നിലകളിൽ അറിയപ്പെടുന്ന ഡോ. ബാബു കെ. വർഗീസ്, ബോംബെ മുഖ്യ സന്ദേശം നല്‍കി
ഇന്ത്യയിൽ ക്രൈസ്തവർ നേരിടുന്ന പീഡനങ്ങളെ കുറിച്ച് നേരിട്ടുള്ള തന്റെ ഹൃദയ സ്പർശിയായ അനുഭവങ്ങൾ അദ്ദേഹം സമ്മേളനത്തില്‍ പങ്കുവെച്ചു.

ശ്രീ. ജോസഫ് പി. രാജു, പ്രസിഡന്റ് ഗോസ്പൽ മിഷൻ ഓഫ് ഇന്ത്യ, ഡിട്രോയിറ്റ്, മിഷിഗൺ പ്രാരംഭ പ്രാര്‍ത്ഥനയോടെ യോഗം ആരംഭിച്ചു .വടക്കേ ഇന്ത്യയിലെ ക്രിസ്ത്യാനികൾ നേരിടുന്ന പീഡനങ്ങൾ, ശത്രുത, വെല്ലുവിളികൾ എന്നിവയെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള നേരിട്ടുള്ളതും കൃത്യവുമായ വിവരങ്ങൾ ഡോ. ബാബു വർഗീസ് സമ്മേളനത്തിൽ പങ്കിടുമെന്നും നിങ്ങളുടെ പ്രാർത്ഥനാപൂർവ്വമായ പങ്കാളിത്തം ഇന്ത്യയിലും ലോകമെമ്പാടും വിശ്വാസത്തിന്റെ പേരിൽ പീഡിപ്പിക്കപ്പെടുന്നവരുമായി നിലകൊള്ളുന്നതിൽ നമ്മുടെ ഐക്യം, ഐക്യദാർഢ്യം, പ്രതിബദ്ധത എന്നിവ പ്രകടമാക്കുന്നതിനുള്ള അവസരമാണിതെന്നും സ്വാഗതമാശംസിച്ചുകൊണ്ടു ഐപിഎല്‍ കോര്‍ഡിനേറ്റര്‍ സി. വി. സാമുവേല്‍ ആമുഖമായി പറഞ്ഞു.തുടർന്ന് മുഖ്യതിഥി ഡോ. ബാബു വർഗീസിനെ പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുകയും മുഖ്യ സന്ദേശം നല്‍കുന്നതിനു ക്ഷണിക്കുകയും ചെയ്തു.

ശ്രീ. ഫിലിപ്പ് മാത്യു (ഷാജി),ഡാളസ്, മദ്ധ്യസ്ഥ പ്രാര്‍ത്ഥനയ്ക്കു നേതൃത്വം നല്‍കി.ഐ പി എൽ സംഘടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന പ്രതിവാര പ്രാർത്ഥനാ യോഗങ്ങളിൽ നാനൂറിലധികം പേര്‍ ലോകത്തിന്റെ വിവിധ ഭാഗങ്ങളില്‍ നിന്നും സംബന്ധിച്ചിരുന്നുവെന്നു കോര്‍ഡിനേറ്റര്‍ ടി.എ. മാത്യു പറഞ്ഞു.തുടർന്ന് നന്ദി രേഖപ്പെടുത്തി .സമാപന പ്രാർത്ഥനയും ആശീർവാദവും:പാസ്റ്റർ ഡോ. എം. എസ്. സാമുവൽ, ന്യൂയോർക്ക് നിർവഹിച്ചു.ഷിബു ജോർജ് ഹൂസ്റ്റൺ, ശ്രീ ജോസഫ് ടി ജോർജ്ജ് (രാജു), ഹൂസ്റ്റൺ എന്നിവർ ടെക്‌നിക്കൽ കോർഡിനേറ്ററായിരുന്നു.
Sources:usmalayali

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The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has agreed to hear the case of a Christian therapist who is challenging Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” that targets conversations meant to help minor clients accept their God-given gender and sexuality.

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a non-profit legal group, is representing Kaley Chiles, a licensed counselor in Colorado.

ADF petitioned the high court in November to hear Chiles’ case after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld Colorado’s Minor Conversion Therapy Law which “prohibits mental health professionals from providing ‘conversion therapy’ to minor clients.”

A counselor who violates Colorado’s Minor Conversion Therapy Law faces fines of up to $5,000 per violation, suspension from practice, and, in some cases, revocation of the counselor’s license.

According to ADF, many of Chiles’ clients seek her counsel because they share her Christian worldview and faith-based values.

“These clients believe their lives will be more fulfilling if they are aligned with the teachings of their faith,” reads a press statement. “Yet Colorado law censors Chiles from speaking words her clients want to hear because the government does not like the view she expresses.”

Their lawsuit alleges that while Colorado’s law prohibits counselors from encouraging clients to accept their bodies, it “allows counseling conversations that aim to steer young people toward a gender identity different than the client’s sex.”

“Such restrictions have ‘left some clinical staff fearful’ of ‘providing professional support’ to young people at all,” reads the petition. “That result leaves detransitioners — those who adopted a transgender identity but now identify with their biological sex — with no counseling support whatsoever in much of the United States.”

Colorado is among roughly half the states that ban people from finding freedom from gender dysphoria or unwanted same-sex attraction.

Colorado Attorney General Philip J. Weiser has criticized so-called “conversion therapy.”

“States have long regulated medical practices to protect patients from harmful professional conduct,” he said in a statement. “Colorado’s law protecting young people from unscientific and cruel gay conversion therapy practices is humane, smart, and appropriate.”

Chiles originally filed a lawsuit challenging the law, arguing that it violates the First Amendment’s Free Speech and Free Exercise clauses.

ADF CEO Kristen Waggoner said state officials have “no business censoring private conversations between clients and counselors.”

“Colorado’s law prohibits what’s best for these children and sends a clear message: the only option for children struggling with these issues is to give them dangerous and experimental drugs and surgery that will make them lifelong patients,” stated Waggoner.

In 2023, to Supreme Court declined to hear a similar case challenging Washington state’s conversion therapy law. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., and Brett Kavanaugh publicly dissented from the court’s decision to not take up that case.

“There is fierce debate over how best to help minors with gender dysphoria,” Thomas wrote at the time.

The high court recently heard arguments in a Tennessee case over whether the state’s ban on experimental transgender procedures on minors violates the Constitution. They have not issued a decision yet.

The justices are expected to hear Chiles’s case during their next term, which begins in October.
Sources:CBN News

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