The Gr8t Chase

The Gr8t Chase The Gr8t Chase is a local non profit raising awareness for childhood cancer. I struggled to find our niche. Worry alone for your child, exhausts you. All of it!

While Chase was in the hospital we knew one day we would start a foundation to help others going through the same thing, as it was his spirit. After his passing I have concentrated efforts on raising funds for cancer research and grant wishes for first time and reoccurring cancer patients. As a mom who sat beside a hospital bed for almost eight months, with very few nights at home, I know money, b

ills, worry and anxiety tend to add up. TIme crawls yet everything seems so out of control and needs to happen NOW. One tiny thing gone wrong, depletes your energy , leaving you unable to think or solve problems. While helping other families it hit me what I wanted The Gr8t Chase to become. I had a family who was having to live in Baltimore for months on end. The grass needed mowing, rains had flooded their shop, weeds were killing her landscape, and insurance was telling them they had to come home, yet that was the only hospital that specialized on her type of cancer. I wanted to fix it! Didn't this mom have enough to worry about without grass sending her over the edge? I want to ease those types of burdens. To have our Foundation swoop in, like Chase, and help someone carry that load. Buy medicine when insurance says no and doctors say it's a matter of life and death. Mow a lawn. Build a ramp for the wheelchair they now have to have to enter their home since chemotherapy has taken the use of their legs. Help purchase a tombstone worthy of their loved one, not just one they can afford. I want to help carry those burdens and lift them off my fellow cancer and life-limiting illness families shoulders and let them focus on what really matters; being strong for who needs them. That is The Gr8t Chase's purpose and our goal.

04/10/2026

WHO WE ARE Dreams and Wishes of Tennessee is a 501(c)(3) non-profit wish granting organization that grants wishes to individuals between the ages of 5-21 who have relapsed from cancer. Individuals may also be eligible if they have reached their 18th birthday and not yet had a wish from another Wish....

04/10/2026
04/04/2026

I wonder if she remembered his first steps
while she stood beneath his last

If the sound of the hammer
echoed like the rhythm
of his little feet running toward her

Mama, look

I wonder
if she thought about the first time
he said her name
soft and small
before the world ever called Him Savior

Before crowds
Before miracles
Before the weight of the cross

He was just her boy

The one she carried
The one she held
The one she kissed goodnight

And now—

Now she stands
with empty hands
watching the same hands
that once reached for hers
stretched out on wood

Pierced

I wonder if her heart whispered
This wasn’t how it was supposed to go

Or if somewhere deep within her
she knew…

This was exactly
why He came

Because He was never only her son

He was her Savior too

The same voice that once said
Mama
now speaks forgiveness over the world

The same hands she once wrapped
in cloth
are now bearing the weight
of every sin

And still—

He looks at her

Not just as a King
Not just as a sacrifice

But as her son

And I wonder
if in that moment
her heart broke in two directions

Grieving the boy she raised
and worshiping the God He is

Because what kind of mother
watches her child die
and still calls it holy

What kind of love
stands at the foot of suffering
and doesn’t turn away

Mary did

She stayed

Through the pain
Through the questions
Through the silence of heaven

She stayed

And maybe that’s what love is

Not understanding
Not fixing
Not rescuing

But staying

Even when your heart
is being nailed to the cross
right alongside Him

And I wonder
through tear blurred eyes
if she whispered

That’s my son

and at the very same time

That’s my Savior

This is pretty awesome for our friends Tennessee Ghostbusters!
04/01/2026

This is pretty awesome for our friends Tennessee Ghostbusters!

** April 2 update ** this was posted on April 1st 😉

The Tennessee Ghostbusters have some very exciting news to share! Vanderbilt in Nashville has kindly offered their firehouse as our NEW HEADQUARTERS!
Come see us at our new historic pad on 627 Second Ave S! The pole works!

03/10/2026

Never Forgotten August 11, 1997- March 10, 2008
Our Chase...our why

The Gr8t Chase

18 years, 7 hours and 21 minutes...that is how long it has been since I have been able to hold this litte guy, hear his ...
03/10/2026

18 years, 7 hours and 21 minutes...that is how long it has been since I have been able to hold this litte guy, hear his infectious laugh, or feel those arms around my neck. Seems like forever...and still like yesterday.

I constantly wonder what our life would be like, had this catastrophe of Burkitt's Lymphoma not interrupted our little world. How it has shaped us and has cut like a thousand paper cuts every day for the last 18 years, and not just for us, but the whole ripple effect for every one that loves him, from losing this little light of mine.

I know the Gr8t works of the The Gr8t Chase has surpassed anything that little mind could imagine and set in motion before his passing. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, raised and given in love to help others going through the same storm we had to face.
I'm grateful for a God who is bigger than that storm and I'm grateful it is his arms holding him today until I can once again take his place some day.

We love and miss you Chaser. Never Forgotten.
August 11, 1997-March 10, 2008





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02/20/2026

PLEASE SHARE: 14-year-old boy is in desperate need of kidney transplant

02/12/2026

Donor Heroes make the selfless decision to be a light of hope and healing to those waiting for lifesaving transplants every day.

We are honored to celebrate their heroic legacies.

Donor Tribute: Asher Sullivan

"Asher was a 10 year old fourth-grade student in Christiana, Tennessee. He passed as a result of injuries sustained while playing with friends during a severe weather accident in May 2024. Asher was a selfless kid who had an amazing sense of humor and lived life to the fullest. He was most proud of his lizard Leo, his stuffed animals and visiting all 50 states. He even broke his collarbone at the 50th state we visited, Alaska.

Asher absolutely loved his family, and his big brother, Declan, was his hero. Some of our favorite memories together involved travelling to national parks and visiting different states. We are also avid Vanderbilt Commodore fans, and we enjoyed going to all athletic events. As Vanderbilt fans, Asher despised the University of Tennessee and actually got in trouble at school for refusing to sing Rocky Top during choir class.

Kaycee, Asher’s mom, has been a lifelong proponent of organ donation. Once we knew that Asher was not going to survive his injuries, it was an immediate decision to donate his organs. Asher always wanted to help anyone no matter who they were and this choice describes Asher’s personality and heart perfectly. Asher had a birth mark on his right upper arm that resembled a heart, and we always said he wore his heart on his sleeve. Even in death, Asher was showing that big heart for others."

In honor of Asher's memory, Kaycee began Asher’s Animals, a program that collects stuffed animals to be donated to hospitals, and its 2nd Annual Donation Drive begins today! 💙💚

Help honor Asher's memory. Consider donating a stuffed animal to Asher's Animals or help save lives by registering to be an organ, eye and tissue donor at DonateLifeTN.org.

02/03/2026

You read that right - the bills have now passed the Senate and will go back to the House on Monday. Stay tuned! KIDS V CANCER

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