May the Fourth Be With You 5K - Valdosta, GA

Lowndes High School Sources of Strength presents May the Fourth Be With You 5K  Run With Amelia May 4, 2024 Please join us for a fun run/walk through the Lowndes High School Universe benefiting Amelia Ellinburg and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Wear your finest galactic, space-themed gear or whatever helps you move at the speed of light. Costumes are encouraged but not required. *Please park in the Student Parking lot   Registration/packet pickup-(will depend on route on campus)   Course: LHS Campus                    *Register by April 15th to guarantee a T-shirt. Date/Event Time: Saturday, May 4, 2024                   8:00-8:45 am REGISTRATION/Packet Pickup 9:00 am 5K RUN                                                                                           Registration and Entry Fee: Before April 15th, 2024: $20 April 16th – May  4th:  $25                                                  Register to be a EWOK/GHOST runner at www.runsignup.com if you can't attend the race. Are you unable to participate but still want to give? Donations are also accepted through www.runsignup.com.                                       Awards: Best times in the following categories: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in 12&U, 13-18, 19-59, 60 and over, and the top three best costumes.   Register online at www.runsignup.com or on the race day with the form.  Kindly submit your registration applications by April 29, 2024, either through mail or in person. Make checks payable to LHS Sources of Strength. You can deliver or mail your registration to LHS at 1606 Norman Dr., c/o Dana Hutchinson, Valdosta, GA 31602. Timing and Results provided by Todd Smoot dba A Course/Line - complete results will be posted on runsignup.com and other sites. Contact information: Text or call 229-560-7920 or email danahutchinson@lowndes.k12.ga.us

 

One morning in November of 2022, Chase and Elizabeth Ellinburg noticed a small bump above their 5-year-old daughter’s right eyelid. They consulted with Amelia’s pediatrician and two eye doctors before being sent to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Not even a week after first noticing the bump, Amelia was diagnosed with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft-tissue cancer. By early December, Amelia began 22 weeks of chemotherapy and 28 treatments of targeted proton therapy. After these treatments, Amelia was declared cancer-free and enjoyed watching her hair grow back and her full strength return over the next several months.    In early November 2023, right around the same time as the year before, new imaging showed a subcentimeter mass at Amelia’s original tumor site. Over the next few weeks, Amelia’s parents noticed an all-too-familiar bump growing on her eyelid in the same location as before. A surgical biopsy and MRI soon confirmed that Amelia’s cancer had relapsed, and, just as the year prior, Amelia began chemotherapy treatments the weeks before Christmas.   Despite this, Amelia remains strong and healthy in all regards, especially in her faith in God. In fact, on December 10, 2023, when faced with the possibility of her cancer returning, Amelia wrote out her own personal confession, which she declares daily: If rhabdomyosarcoma has returned, I command it to leave in Jesus’ name. Whatever the devil is planning cannot work!” This family stands on the promise of I Peter 2:24, which says, “By His stripes, you have been healed.”