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Being Thankful BEING THANKFUL EVEN WHEN IT’S DIFFICULT Thanksgiving: The 2020 Experience ALSO INSIDE: NOVEMBER 2020 A Different Thanksgiving Day in 2020 ON THE COVER: Brent Glover’s father, Rick, holds his granddaughter Charlotte as she gives her dad a high five outside Spartanburg Regional Hospital, where he was a leukemia patient recently. NOVEMBER 2O2O THE COURIER EDITOR & PRESIDENT | James Rudy Gray VOL. 152, NO. 11 Published once a month by The Baptist Courier MANAGING EDITOR | Todd Deaton GRAPHIC DESIGNER | Candace Rathbone BUSINESS MANAGER | Chris Holliday BOOK PUBLISHING | Butch Blume (ISSN: O7446985 , PUB: 42260) EDITORIAL ASSISTANT | Denise Huffman EDITOR EMERITUS | Don Kirkland 100 Manly Street, Greenville, SC 29601. Periodicals CIRCULATION MANAGER | Carolyn Rainey postage paid at Greenville, SC and other locations. 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TO SUBSCRIBE TO ADVERTISE TO CONNECT WITH US www.baptistcourier.com/subscribe www.baptistcourier.com/advertise Facebook.com/baptistcourier Phone (Toll-free): 1-888-667-4693 or email us at [email protected] Email: [email protected] Twitter.com/baptistcourier Yearly Rates (12 Issues): Individual | $21.00 TO SUBMIT NEWS SCAN THIS CODE WITH YOUR Church Group | $17.40 www.baptistcourier.com/contact-us MOBILE DEVICE TO VISIT Church Family | $10.20 or email us at [email protected] BAPTISTCOURIER.COM 2 • NOVEMBER 2020 | THE COURIER GLOVERS: BEING THANKFUL, EVEN WHEN IT’S DIFFICULT BY TODD DEATON, Managing Editor THE TURKEY, DRESSING AND PUMPKIN PIE will likely taste a little sweeter to Brent and Courtney Glover this Thanksgiving. In late March, Brent, an otherwise healthy 34-year-old with an active lifestyle, began having severe headaches and felt really fatigued. He also noticed some red spots on his arms and legs, as well as a couple of bruises. The headaches were accompanied by dizzy spells, and one day he found himself struggling to stand upright. His wife, Courtney, urged him to see a doctor. “As any man, I pushed it off as long as I could,” said Brent, a former U.S. Marine who works for SEW-Eurodrive. But on April 2, he relented and went to see a family doctor, who ran some blood tests. No one expected what happened next. In the middle of the night, around 3 a.m., a doctor on call tried to call Brent to tell him to get to the emergency room. “My blood numbers were that bad,” Brent said. Brent’s phone ringer was off that night. Unable to reach him, the doctor called Brent’s mom, who was listed as an emergency contact. His mom and dad rushed over to Brent’s house at 5 a.m. and told him to go to the hospital immediately. An oncologist, Dr. Steve Corso, looked at his blood under a microscope, and a bone marrow biopsy was performed. Brent was diagnosed on April 3 with acute promyelocytic leukemia, a very aggressive form of cancer. Brent said, “It’s hard being apart from your family, and not being “Because of COVID, my wife and my mom and dad able to physically touch them” when someone is ill. weren’t allowed to come into the emergency room,” he recalled. “But knowing the news that he was about to have wouldn’t be able to visit me, and I wouldn’t be able to go out to deliver, the doctor allowed my wife and my mom and dad and visit with them,” he said. to come into my room.” “It was very hard to grasp that I was going to have to The doctor’s words “just sounded muffled” as he broke go — at the time, we thought maybe five to six weeks — the bad news to Courtney. “It sounded like somebody was without seeing my family face-to-face,” he said. just talking, and I wasn’t listening to anything he was saying,” Courtney didn’t know when or if their kids would see she said. their dad again. “They really didn’t know what his chances of It wasn’t until she got out into the parking lot and saw her survival would be because he was so sick, and we didn’t really dad and mom that she really collapsed with her emotions. “I understand how sick he was until we got to the hospital,” felt like I finally had the chance to do it, because I didn’t have she said. to be strong in front of Brent and my kids,” Courtney said. Brent was able to see his wife and kids through a glass Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Brent’s isolation window, though. throughout a nearly-four-week hospital stay at Spartanburg “I would go out to the lobby and they would come up to Regional was especially hard for him — and for Courtney and the window, and we would call each other and talk to each their two young children, Eli and Charlotte, as well. other over the phone when we were looking through the “When I was first diagnosed sitting in the ER — when glass window together,” he explained. “It was very hard, but they told me that I had leukemia — I was in extreme shock,” Brent said. “It didn’t really click that I wouldn’t get to be with my family until later on that day, when they had actually put me in my own hospital room. Then I found out that they Glovers... CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 www.baptistcourier.com • 3 Glovers... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 it was something that I was praying about, for the Lord to keep me strong, to keep my family strong, to keep my kids strong during this time. “It was definitely harder at times than others, but through prayer and God’s grace, we got through it,” Brent said. The month that Brent was in the hospital was “just terrible,” Courtney recalled. “It was just not being able for the kids to see Daddy, and us really not feeling like a couple because we couldn’t see or really touch each other for a whole month,” she said. During that time, she read a devotion about Moses going through the Red Sea. “That book was really what got me through the month of April, just remembering God’s promises and how He delivered His people,” she said. “I held on to that promise, knowing that if God could get His people through such a time where it was impossible to cross the Red Sea, then He could bring my husband home.” Brent finally got to come home at the end of April. Four weeks later, he started a second round of outpatient chemotherapy, which was five days a week for five weeks. He completed his final round of chemotherapy in October. “At this point, with Brent being home and being able to do treatment as an outpatient, we feel like we’re a little bit more back to normalcy, and that’s allowed us to feel more like we’re a family again,” Courtney said. The Glovers took a family picture on a trip to the beach for Labor Day A former school teacher, Courtney recently has joined weekend, right before he started a second round of treatment. the staff of View Church in Boiling Springs. “I didn’t think I could take it (the children’s ministry position),” she said. “I just felt like God had really been faithful, and I felt like I “I thought I had to stay in my safe plan of being a teacher, needed to surrender everything to Him,” she said. “I felt like working for the state, not giving up that retirement.” God had put that calling on my life.” But when Brent came home, they discussed the move. Brent’s cancer currently is in remission. “They’ve done two different blood tests on me to make sure that there’s still Brent and Courtney’s son Eli, 8, and daughter Charlotte, 4, stand at a no leukemia cells in my blood, and both of those have come hospital window since they weren’t allowed inside due to COVID-19. back negative,” he rejoiced. Now that he’s back home, Courtney feels the four of them have really grown in their faith. Their son, Eli, was baptized this summer by her dad, Danny Garrett, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Enoree. On the way to school one morning, she and Eli were listening to a song. “I know the Bible verse that goes with the song,“ Eli announced. “It’s Exodus 14:14,” he said. “The Lord will fight for you, Mommy.” “And just through Brent having cancer, I know that my kids know that God is faithful, and that He will fight for us, even when it doesn’t make sense,” Courtney said. “Even Charlotte, who’s 4 years old, understands that we pray for Daddy. We’re praying that this last round will be the very last round. And we’re just having our faith in that. So we’re very, very hopeful.” RELINK Yet, in spite of a serious battle with leukemia and enduring COVID restrictions while in the hospital, Brent says, “Yes, sir. It’s been a true blessing.” “The Lord has blessed me with a tremendous testimony of His faithfulness,” he added. “He tells us that He will never forsake us, and I’ve never felt it more than now. 4 • NOVEMBER 2020 | THE COURIER “As a Christian, I’ve always believed in the power of necessarily think about that much any other time.” prayer, but until you go through something like this, and you Courtney is especially thankful that her family is together see the amount of people in the community praying for you again and for her faith, which anchored her through it all.
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