An initiative organized by friends and neighbors to support Rebecca in her fight with cancer
Join the Team
United in strength and numbers we will share our love, energy and encouragement with Rebecca and the Smith family. We ask that you challenge yourself to do something difficult. Something that will take courage and determination to achieve. Ponder something you’ve wanted to accomplish but haven’t made the time or had the grit and determination to do. Pledge to do this in honor of Rebecca. As we embark on our own personal challenge, together we can inspire a magnificent power in becoming Strong Like Rebecca.
Fill out the form below and pledge to accomplish a challenge in honor of Rebecca. Your challenge will include a written goal only. Once you have completed your challenge, come back to this site and Share your Story with a picture so we can put everyone's accomplished challenges in a book for Rebecca and her family.
After completing your challenge...
Once it is completed click the Share Your Story button below. Upload your picture and summarize your experience of how doing something difficult helped you become Strong Like Rebecca. *These stories will only be available for Rebecca and her family to read. They will not be for public view. Eventually, the stories will be put into a book for the Smith family to cherish.
Tap to Read Sofie and Stacie Shurtliff's Story
Rebecca Savage Smith is my dear friend and family member for over thirty years. She is what I call my sistah friend. I could share a million stories of how she has brought and brings great good to my life. When my family and I heard the news of Rebecca’s diagnosis, although it felt like a sucker punch to the gut, we also all noted that if anyone can get through this it is Rebecca. As we expected, Rebecca as with everything she does in life, immediately committed herself wholeheartedly to the task or goal at hand. Healing from and overcoming cancer. Whether it is eating the best foods and avoiding sugars and foods that are not healing, pushing herself to get up and move when she doesn’t feel like it, quarantining, enduring grueling chemotherapy treatments, you name it she is doing it.
My youngest Sofie Shurtliff is a kind good soul and a great athlete. She is a state champion volleyball player and our 2A state MVP from Enterprise Highschool 2019-2020. She is a great basketball player and has played varsity since she was a freshman. She is an all-state player as a junior in volleyball and basketball. This is her senior year and her team was undefeated beating 4A, 3A, 2A teams, etc. She loves her teammates, she is a great team player, and as many have commented she is the type of player who helps everyone be better. The Saturday before Christmas she blew out her ACL in a game.
The news that her season and high school career was done and that she would need surgery and would be rehabbing the rest of her senior year was really difficult... As we talked about the realities Rebecca Smiths example quickly came into our discussions about how we would go forward. We talked about how Rebecca inspires us and the courage she shows. Sofie committed to be Strong Like Rebecca, to like Rebecca do everything within her power to recover and rehab. Sofies has reminded herself when in pain or doubt that she can do hard things. She is working every day to be Strong like Rebecca!