Hope Cancer Retreat

Hope Cancer Retreat We are located in a quiet suburb of Houston, Texas approximately 40 minutes from MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Hope Cancer Retreat offers physical, mental and spiritual support to cancer patients and their family members through education, housing, prayer, mentoring and positive attitude.

05/27/2026

I had a guest here last week whose story hit really close to home for me. She was about 15 years younger than I am. She had lost a kidney to cancer. It now had gone to her bladder and metastasized through the walls of her bladder all over her body. She is in such pain that they have her on a morphine pump to help with the pain. While here they took her to the hospital by ambulance because of heart pain. It seems she has had so much chemo it has now damaged her heart. Please pray for her and her husband. He is so attentive but under such stress.

05/18/2026

To my local people I have one of my guests that is really wanting to get a massage and needing one. Can you give me a good recommendation?

Here are ways you can help HCR.
05/18/2026

Here are ways you can help HCR.

05/18/2026
We just had two places and our yard hydroseeded. Can't wait to watch it grow.
05/18/2026

We just had two places and our yard hydroseeded. Can't wait to watch it grow.

The New Caney Garden Club came out today and blessed us with beautifying the plants in front of the cottages. They did s...
05/14/2026

The New Caney Garden Club came out today and blessed us with beautifying the plants in front of the cottages. They did such a great job. Pookie has his hands full doing the yard and he has no desire to do gardening. I don't do outside work because of asthma and allergies so I really appreciate this. Here are a few pictures.

Meet our guest Dr. John and Grace Ferris from Stillwell Oklahoma. John is a retired doctor and Grace is the patient and ...
05/07/2026

Meet our guest Dr. John and Grace Ferris from Stillwell Oklahoma. John is a retired doctor and Grace is the patient and she has breast cancer. She has already had her surgery and is here for radiation treatment. They've already been here almost 2 weeks and she starts her treatment for radiation on Friday. Please pray for her that she remain strong. She is very strong in faith and such a precious lady.

Huge Praise report:Yesterday was 3 years since I brought Pook home from the hospital with Clippers Syndrome. I was so un...
05/06/2026

Huge Praise report:

Yesterday was 3 years since I brought Pook home from the hospital with Clippers Syndrome. I was so uncomfortable doing it but because of Medicare I had to get him out of the hospital. My strong, healthy man went to cross-eyed and was not able to control his limbs, having seizures every few minutes, drooling and not being able to feed himself. Fifty-four days in the hospital searching for what was wrong with him. I didn't know how I could handle him but I did.

I learned many things through that trial but one thing I learned is you should never underestimate your strength when you depend on God. I learned the significance of the scripture in Joel 3:10 let the weak say I AM STRONG.

I remember every day I got up at 3:30, cooked him breakfast (cause he liked my breakfast) and drove to the hospital to get there before 6 am. I would stay in my car in the parking garage for about 30 minutes because they would not allow me in that early. I wanted to be there when all the teams of doctors would start coming in and evaluating him. Every day I had new things to ask them to test. I had so many people following me and many in the medical field. The doctors were so good to do as I had asked because they really didn't know anymore than I knew. It was a mystery syndrome that had attacked his body. They told me he had been tested for around 400 things and came up negative.

I had a friend who would call me every day on my way home to see if there were any changes. One day she asked me, Jenny what if…..what if he doesn’t get better. I remember telling her Oh…..my mind can’t even go there. I don’t even consider that. Finally a radiologist on duty one day after a brain MRI and a spinal tap said I think I know what it might be.....Clippers syndrome. They came and told me but didn't want me to get my hopes up. But you must have hope before faith. They said if he has this there have only been 100 diagnosed with this and we will have to start him out on 1000 mg of steroids a day for a week. I said let's do it. Pook has always had bad reactions to regular steroids for a sinus infection they made him super hyper. He looked at me scared. I walked over to him when they left and I said Pookie, you are not going to have any negative reaction to these steroids in Jesus name. Do you hear me? He shook his head yes like a scared kid. I grabbed his hand and said I need you to agree with me. He said OK. He started gradually improving and never had one negative reaction.

They sent him to TIRR when I brought him home 3 days a week. He was still having extreme tremors and seizures to where he could not talk while they were hitting him. They lasted 20 seconds every 5-10 minutes while he was awake. One night I was catching up on messages people had sent me. A friend in the Dallas area had sent me one about this supplement. He said Jenny; my wife has always had the shakes/tremors. Someone told us about this supplement Valasta. It is kind of expensive. I started giving it to her and her tremors stopped in about 3 weeks. I know she is not bad like Larry but I thought you may want to try it. I said I do. He said I sent you this a couple months ago and the fact that you are contacting me now well. I am not saying it is God but if you want to try it I will call the company and have some sent to you. I got it on June 9th and he had his last tremor on July 16th. Thanks Keith Davis. I have the calendar with documentations taped on my refrigerator. I love the reminder of how Good God is. All the cancer we have been through was nothing compared to this. This was the biggest giant we ever fought. Looking back on that battle I marvel at how strong I was but only because of God.

PS: There is not a day goes by but what Pook doesn’t tell me many times how thankful he is for me and he would have never made it if it wasn’t for me. I just let him think it lol. This is what I taped on his wall to see 24/7

We had some wonderful previous guests who came to visit today. Do you remember "The Bag Ladies"? This was a mother and d...
05/06/2026

We had some wonderful previous guests who came to visit today. Do you remember "The Bag Ladies"? This was a mother and daughter duo and the daughter had cancer. She had to keep it a secret because if it got back to her employers why she was off she could loose her job (because it was over on Kwajalein Islands. I had the idea I would give them bags and they could decorate their faces and I would take their pictures in them so family could follow them. Like the old Gong show. Pookie said that was the dumbest thing he ever heard in his life. The girls loved it. We got to know the grandparents, cousins, aunts etc. Callie was here so much. She was the first to stay in every cottage but one. We even built a suite just for her so she would always have a place. Well Callie went to heaven Sept. 2, 2020. The last time we saw her family was at her funeral. Her parents retired are now living in the states. They came by for a wonderful visit. It was so nice. We have missed them. They became like family. Here is a picture of them as the bag ladies when a cousin came to visit and here is a picture today of Flynn and Lana Gideon.

Meet Kyden Kettler. He belongs to a scout group out of Kingwood called the trail Life USA. They meet once a week at a ch...
04/25/2026

Meet Kyden Kettler. He belongs to a scout group out of Kingwood called the trail Life USA. They meet once a week at a church there. Kyden is finishing his third year. It's a special award that only second year mountain lions can choose to do. They are not required to do this. To earn this award it involves a service project, Bible study responsibility and several things they have to do in order to earn this special award. He chose Hope Cancer Retreat to help with supplies. His dad has helped us in the past on some really big projects. We started getting stuff sent to us through Amazon and then other groups found out about it and they just kept giving this is some of the supplies they brought tonight. It is such a great help for us not to have to buy supplies. We really appreciate it and congratulations Kyden for organizing this. We really appreciate it.

Address

26904 Brentwood Road
Splendora, TX
77372

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+12816893224

Website

https://www.hopecancerretreat.com/donatenow

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