Team Mighty Miggsy - Joshua's Journey

Team Mighty Miggsy - Joshua's Journey Honoring Joshua by bringing JOY and support to childhood cancer families and caregivers.

Kids are priceless.That sounds obvious until childhood cancer enters the room and suddenly so much of a child’s life is ...
09/08/2026

Kids are priceless.

That sounds obvious until childhood cancer enters the room and suddenly so much of a child’s life is measured.

Blood counts. Scan results. Medication doses. Treatment days. Hospital stays. Percentages. Odds.

Families become fluent in numbers they never wanted to learn, but none of those numbers can tell you what a child is worth.

They cannot measure the sound of their laugh, the space they take up in a family, the friendships they’ve built, the future they are already imagining, or the hole left behind when that future is interrupted.

Childhood cancer forces families to pay attention to numbers.

This September, we’re asking everyone else to pay attention to the kids.

Because research matters. Better treatments matter. Support for families matters. Awareness matters.
And every child facing cancer is worth all of it.

Kids are priceless. Always.

If you believe childhood cancer deserves more attention, SHARE THIS POST to your story today. Help us put these kids in front of people who might otherwise scroll right past Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

Childhood cancer became personal to us in a way we never would have chosen.Before Joshua was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcom...
09/05/2026

Childhood cancer became personal to us in a way we never would have chosen.

Before Joshua was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma, we could care about sick children, feel compassion for their families, donate to a cause or stop on a heartbreaking story in our feed.

But there is a difference between knowing childhood cancer exists and learning what it actually asks of a child and the people who love them.

No family should have to receive a diagnosis before this matters to them.

Awareness matters because attention matters. Research matters. Better treatments matter. Supporting families in the middle of treatment matters.

Paying attention to what survivors carry after treatment matters. And remembering the children who did not get the future they deserved matters.

You do not have to know Joshua to care about this.
You do not have to have sat beside a hospital bed.
You do not have to know what Ewing Sarcoma is yet.

You only have to decide that children facing cancer deserve more of our attention than they are getting.

So if this lands with you, share it. Let somebody else see it today too. Share this post!

Because childhood cancer should matter long before it becomes personal. 💛💙🧡

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, but for families who have lived it, awareness is not seasonal. Childhood ...
09/02/2026

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, but for families who have lived it, awareness is not seasonal. Childhood cancer does not stay neatly inside one month, one hospital room, one treatment plan, or one statistic. It follows families into ordinary Tuesdays, school years that should have happened, birthdays that feel different forever, and futures that were supposed to be much longer.

Yesterday, September 1, belonged to Joshua. It was his birthday before gold ribbons, awareness campaigns, or The Mighty Miggsy Foundation ever became part of our story. We chose to let that day simply be his.

Today, we begin talking about childhood cancer.

Throughout September, we will share facts because facts matter. We will talk about Ewing sarcoma because too many people have never heard its name until someone they love is diagnosed with it. We will talk about treatment, research, families, survivors, loss, and the long reach childhood cancer can have even after treatment ends. But we never want the numbers to become so large that we forget what they represent.

Because every statistic is somebody’s child.

There is a name behind the diagnosis. A personality. A favorite food. An inside joke. Friends waiting for them at school. A family trying to understand medical language they never expected to learn. A whole life that existed before cancer entered the room.

For us, that name is “Joshua.”

He is why The Mighty Miggsy Foundation exists. He is why we will keep showing up, serving children and families, asking people to pay attention, and saying the words “childhood cancer” long after September is over.

Awareness cannot give us Joshua back.

But we can make sure his name keeps doing something good in this world—and we can keep fighting for a future where fewer families have to learn this world the way ours did. 💛

Today is Joshua’s birthday.Before there was a foundation, before there were birthday bags, bucket hats, hospital deliver...
09/01/2026

Today is Joshua’s birthday.

Before there was a foundation, before there were birthday bags, bucket hats, hospital deliveries, fundraisers, or a mission carrying his name, there was simply Joshua.

Funny. Kind. Stubborn. Loyal. Full of personality. The kind of kid who could make people laugh without trying very hard and who loved his people deeply.

Joshua knew firsthand how hard hospital days could be. He also knew how much the smallest things could matter in the middle of them — something to make you laugh, something to do, something that made a hospital room feel a little less heavy.

Even while walking through his own cancer journey, he was thinking about other kids.

That heart is where The Mighty Miggsy Foundation began.

Today, children Joshua never had the chance to meet receive bags filled with things he loved and things he knew could make hard days just a little brighter. His bucket hat has become part of our signature. His nickname is now spoken in hospital rooms and homes by families who never knew him, but who are being cared for because he lived.

And while we are incredibly proud of the work being done in his memory, today we want to remember the boy before the mission.

Joshua.

Miggsy.

A son. A brother. A friend. A kid who mattered long before his story became a reason to serve.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and throughout this month we will share more about childhood cancer, the families facing it, and the ways you can help us continue Joshua’s legacy.

But September 1 belonged to Joshua first.

So today, we simply celebrate him.

Happy birthday, Miggsy. 🧡

Your life continues to bring joy, comfort, and love into places that desperately need all three.

And we are so grateful the world got you.

Miggsy Monday Memory12 years ago, I posted this picture of Joshua and Jayden and captioned it simply, “a rare moment.”Be...
08/31/2026

Miggsy Monday Memory

12 years ago, I posted this picture of Joshua and Jayden and captioned it simply, “a rare moment.”

Because that’s what it felt like then. A brother and sister actually being sweet to each other long enough for Mom to catch it on camera.

I had no idea how precious “rare moments” would become.

Tonight is the eve of Joshua’s birthday, and I know his sister would give just about anything for one more of these. One more picture. One more laugh. One more annoying little-brother moment. One more chance to roll her eyes at him and love him at the very same time.

That’s the strange thing about grief. Sometimes the moments that seemed so ordinary become the ones you would trade everything to have back.

Tomorrow we celebrate the day Joshua came into our lives. But tonight, I’m remembering the little boy beside his big sister—and the bond that death could never undo.

If you have your people close today, take the picture. Even if they complain. Even if they’re bickering five minutes later.

Sometimes the “rare moment” becomes the priceless one.
💛💙🧡

Forever her little brother. Forever part of her story. Forever loved.

ChildhoodCancerAwareness

08/30/2026

The Mighty Miggsy Foundation is a returning FRIEND sponsor of CureFest 2026!

The Mighty Miggsy Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting children battling cancer, particularly those with Ewing Sarcoma. Founded in memory of Joshua, a young cancer patient, the foundation aims to bring hope, joy, and assistance to affected families through various programs, including financial aid and educational support. Their mission is to honor Joshua’s legacy by providing care and resources to children and their families during challenging times.

To learn more about The Mighty Miggsy Foundation, please visit https://facebook.com/MightyMiggsy.

If you, your family, your foundation or your business would like to sponsor CureFest, please review the sponsorship benefits package at https://tinyurl.com/sponsorcurefest2026.

If you have any questions, please contact Kristen Alexander at [email protected].

MIggsy Monday MemoryIn honor of all the Back To School posts..Here’s a sweet pic of Joshua in his first day of 5th grade...
08/17/2026

MIggsy Monday Memory

In honor of all the Back To School posts..

Here’s a sweet pic of Joshua in his first day of 5th grade 11 years ago!!

Miggsy Monday MemoryThese two boys have my heart.One is my sweet Joshua—our Miggsy. The other is Cade, one of those spec...
08/10/2026

Miggsy Monday Memory

These two boys have my heart.

One is my sweet Joshua—our Miggsy. The other is Cade, one of those special young men I have been blessed to call my own. I watched Joshua grow into an amazing human, and for the past several years, I’ve had the privilege of being Cade’s pastor, his second mom, and one of the people cheering him on as he has grown into such a fine young man.

Sometimes the similarities between Cade and Josh are uncanny and heartwarming all at the same time. Their reactions, their humor, and the way they connect with all their friends can stop me in my tracks and make me smile. There are moments when Cade says or does something that reminds me so much of Joshua, and it feels like a small gift from God.

This summer, I had the blessing of spending so much time with Cade—from NYC to watching him serve as a Kids Camp counselor and then attending Teen Camp as a camper. I was able to be part of so many moments, and I will always be grateful for that time together.

This picture was taken ten years ago today at a Shorebirds game when our whole church, The River, went together. At the time, we had no idea how deeply our lives would become intertwined.

Cade’s family walked through the fire with us during Joshua’s journey. They stood beside us during the hardest days, and they have continued to be a light in the years since Joshua passed. Now, their family is facing a heartbreakingly similar battle. We wish they never had to understand this kind of pain, but we are so grateful that we can walk beside them with an understanding and connection that others may not have.

God has joined our families in a way that is heartbreaking, beautiful, and difficult to put into words. In the middle of circumstances none of us would ever choose, His grace has given us one another.

Ten years later, this picture is so much more than a memory. It reminds me that God was already weaving our families together long before we understood how much we would need one another.

These two boys have my heart—and they always will.

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