A Texan worship pastor and his beloved wife, parents of two young children, are both fighting back against deadly forms of cancer while trying to raise their young children, a 10-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son.<\/p>\n
The pastor is Mr. Cory Schibler, the worship pastor of Bryan, Texas\u2019 Beacon Baptist Church and director of the Association of Baptist Students at Texas A&M University. He has been fighting Follicular Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma for years. His wife is now fighting cancer as well, having been recently diagnosed with her own version of the deadly disease.<\/p>\n
Speaking to\u00a0the Christian Post<\/a>\u00a0about his wife\u2019s battle with neuroendocrine cancer, Mr. Schibler said, \u201cMy wife has told me multiple times that she would have peace about it if this is the end for her. Me and her closest friends, we don\u2019t have peace about that<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0Continuing, the pastor and father noted that his family remains firmly committed to the Christian faith and praising God, saying, \u201cwe really do have faith that God is bigger than our circumstances and so just trust that whatever happens, we\u2019re going to continue to praise Him.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Schibler then noted that he only found out about the disease by \u201cdivine intervention.\u201d That occurred when, in 2012, he was in a car accident just the day after getting engaged to his now-wife. It was in the emergency room after the crash that he found out about his lymphoma diagnosis.\u00a0Explaining the background to his diagnosis, Mr. Schibler said, \u201cThe day we got engaged, we had a car accident, and in the course of receiving treatment in the emergency room, the doctors found what they thought was cancer.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n He then explained why it took years for the hospital to start fighting it after first discovering it in 2012, saying, \u201cMy treatment plan was officially \u2018watchful waiting\u2019 which is medical speak for \u2018we won\u2019t do anything until it starts trying to kill you.\u2019 I remained in that care plan until December of 2020. Over the prior few months, I had begun having difficulty swallowing,<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Then, commenting on his wife\u2019s treatable neuroendocrine cancer and his spreading lymphoma, Mr. Schibler said,\u00a0\u201cWell, we just don\u2019t know yet. My doctor wasn\u2019t comfortable making any decisions until he saw the actual pathology report. Most likely, I\u2019m going to be going to a bigger Cancer Center to get an opinion from them. Probably MD Anderson in Houston, because it\u2019s the closest to where we are, but he was waiting until he got the full results back before he made a referral to them for me. That\u2019s most likely what we\u2019re gonna do next.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n