Community Helps Deacon Find Bone Marrow Transplant

A beloved deacon's church came together to help a deacon get a bone marrow transplant that he will need every year.

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((josh))a deacon at saint marks baptistchurch - is one of thousands of people in needofa bone marrow transplant every year.

As fox16 charmaine nero reports -- more than one hundred and twenty people registered to hoping to find a cure not only for this husba father and church deacon...but others in need co))hi i cy ms, if o caden on twa t church."cory adams has learned momen like this can change in a flash ..

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((chris bell, needinthe community at lar to have more bone marrow donor specifically inth mtwhile cory's wifworks to raise awareness....she's hoping he husbands diagnosis..i return save thelife of someone else.

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