“In your lowest point, God uses your bad situation to help somebody else who is going through there’s.” Colleen Rhoden has been diagnosed with cancer for the sixth time.

Colleen Rhoden evangelises with Counties Evangelist, Lee Marsland, at Encounters Ministries. She’s survived cancer five times and now has the disease in both her lungs.  In Summer’s Ignite, she tells the story of how God has been with her through her journey.

Colleen Rhoden

When she was first diagnosed with cancer in her left breast, she says:

“I asked God: ‘Why have you allowed this to happen to me?’ I felt nobody understood me. I felt embarrassed, ashamed and wanted to cover up. I felt so alone. I felt like I didn’t want to be here anymore.”

But Colleen became involved in a support group that became her lifeline; and also became close friends with Lee’s wife Lesley: “She is my angel. I don’t have the words to describe what she has done for me and my family. When I wanted to give up, she wouldn’t let me.

“With the help of them and praying to God I became alive again. And the Lord gave me the opportunity to reach out to others.”

Two years later Collen was diagnosed and subsequently survived cancer in her armpit, her right breast and her chest wall, and her left shoulder. She now has it in both her lungs. 

“In your lowest point, God uses your bad situation to help somebody else who is going through there’s. Had I not had cancer I would not have had the chance to meet the people I am now helping and supporting on their journey and walk - as well as my own. Even when I am at my lowest, I am reaching out to people who need me.”