Tanika Williams: Organ Tranplants and Caregiving on Living Your Best Radio with Genma Holmes

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On Saturday, March 12, 2016, Tanika Williams will share updates about her husband, Steve Williams who is in need of kidney transplant. Steve Williams spoke to Living Your Best life audience when a donor came forward several months ago. Since that time, there has been a few twists and turns on his journey to receiving a transplant.

Tanika will share about loving her husband in sickness and in health, the trials, and the victories they have experienced over the last eight years. She will also share about the importance of educating communities about organ donation and transplantion and how it works.  Tanika will also discuss how everyone can help encourage Steve and their ongoing fundraising efforts.

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More about Steve Williams Story

Steve Williams is on a list of  more than 123,000 men, women and children aawaiting organ transplants to save their lives. Thousands more are in need of tissue and cornea transplants to restore their mobility and sight. Register to be an organ, eye and tissue donor today and provide hope to those who wait.

 In 2008, life was going along pretty good. Tanika's husband, Steve, who is a truck driver, had his own business hauling cars. They had lived in their home for 15 years with their children who were teens. Their life was full of plans and dreams for our future. That same year, a routine health physical to renew his CDL license revealed a problem with his kidney. Their reality changed radically. Steve was in renal failure. He went from driving the country delivering cars to driving to dialysis 3 times a week. He endured the loss of his business, home and mental and financial security. In short, the bottom fell out.

For over eight years, he has waited for a donor.

 Nobody goes through something like this alone and comes out of it whole. We are blessed to have the greatest family and friends. The encouragement and help that we have received has spelled the difference in too many instances to name. Steve and I have had people on every side to hold us up. . Without you we would fall. We are deeply appreciative to you all and we're grateful that you continue to be Jesus' hands and feet for us. The Williams

Meet Paul Morse...A Man with a Great Big Heart

In 2014, I finally met Mr. Paul Morse, a man with a great big heart. I had read about Mr. Morse for nearly two years but never thought I would ever met him in person. I came to know of Mr. Morse through a tragic event that is still overwhelming at times.

On the day I met Mr. Morse, I felt God's presence permeating the air as He comforted many who heard the beat of Mr. Morse's great big heart. After fellowshipping with old and new friends, I found a spot to spend time with Mr. Morse one on one. I learned right away Mr. Morse was a talker and had the energy of an eighteen year old as he shared his faith abundantly. I will forever cherish the time I spent with him. What stayed in my spirit after meeting Mr. Morse, a man with a great big heart, was a firm acceptance that fate will bring people together; love is truly the greatest of these and can move mountains; and seeing the power of faith in our Savior, Jesus Christ, in action, lifts one to the highest peak.

After meeting Mr. Morse and his beautiful bride, they shared their story on Living Your Best Life Radio. Mr. Morse's testimony about his faith in God, his health care journey, and his life after receiving a precious gift from a young heroic man, empowered, inspired, and motivated listeners. Many texted in to who are on a waiting list to receive an organ transplant and hundreds share updates  throughout the year.

Since meeting Mr. Morse, I have met over thirty individuals who have received the gift of life.  Each encounter has left me more in love with the God I serve. And each encounter reminds me how thankful I am that I knew the young man who taught me, through his family's devotion, to love deeply and to laugh harder.

Ty 2 showing us how to live life to the fullest...still.

Here is Mr. Morse, a man with a great big heart, in his own words:

Psalms 73:26- "My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

Photo Credits: Genma Holmes and Ty 2 Foundation