CINCINNATI Pastor Corey Potts said Lauren Hill memorial service Monday night would be a celebration and a call for everyone to follow her example and find the purpose in our own lives. service at Xavier University Cintas Center.
Potts calls Lauren “a once in a lifetime gift” from God. He knew Lauren well because the Hill family attended his church, Trinity Christian Center,wholesale jerseys high on a Dearborn County hill. The flag there is at half staff.
Surrounded by love: Family photo at Lauren Hill visitation.
“She just exuberated that essence that there was something more for her than this [cancer] that she was facing.”
Thousands of Tri Staters attended the memorial service to pay their respects to the 19 year old basketball player and cancer fighter who inspired the Tri State and the country with her caring unselfish determination and zest for life.
Lauren family and her basketball teammates at Mount St. Joseph University and Lawrenceburg High School participated in the memorial service. The Hiram College basketball team the Mount opponents for Lauren first game also attended.
After Lauren casket was rolled into the arena, the coaches from the Mount and Lawrenceburg High laid Lauren jerseys on the casket. Brooke Desserich, executive director of The Cure Starts Now, placed Lauren superhero cape over an easel. Several others including Lauren oncologist, Dr.
“We talk in our services about the hope of heaven and the hope of God that he can heal now or he can ultimately heal in heaven, and that what we rejoice and celebrate today as we remember Lauren.”
PHOTOS: See a gallery from the visitation
Lauren died Friday after a 17 month long battle with a rare, inoperable brain cancer, DIPG. She didn let her disease stop her from realizing her dream of playing college basketball her first game at the Cintas Center last November was one of the most thrilling moments in Cincinnati sports history. And it inspired her to become the voice for DIPG victims normally kids 6 to 9 and raise more than $1.5 million for underfunded research with the hope of finding new treatments and, ultimately, a cure.
Wonderful tribute in the arena w/ the shot clock game clock set to 22 to honor Lauren.
“I don know how they come to that except through a divine gift from God to reveal that to you because in life you handed a set of circumstances or trials and adversity and how we respond to that is how we determine our character,” he said.
“We want people not just to remember the illness, the disease. We want people to remember Lauren and what a wonderful human being she was and what a difference she made in all of our lives. So, we going to celebrate that. We going to celebrate her life, celebrate the change that she made in so many around the world.
“We going to focus on her love, her passion, her courage, her strength and what she meant to so many different people and, more importantly, as we remember her and honor her, not to let it be a fleeting thing.
“We going to find a way that we can honor her through our service and through our action.”
Lauren wanted everyone to find their purpose and live their lives to the fullest.
“The way to keep it going is transformation of our own hearts,” Potts said. “Lauren had a pivotal moment in her life that she realized that there was a calling placed on her to be a voice for those who didn have that. Each and every one of us have a design and calling from God himself, and if we can focus on that and transform our lives to fulfill that calling that he placed on us, this world has no chance but to change.
