A Live On Mission pathway
Hold the home while they fight for a life
When someone gets a cancer diagnosis, the whole family turns toward that one person — appointments, infusions, insurance calls, and the quiet work of learning to cope. Everything else in the house keeps needing doing anyway. The grass keeps growing. The bathroom still needs cleaning. Nobody has thought about dinner.
Hold the Home is a standing group of neighbours around one household. Not a one-off casserole — the same handful of ordinary jobs, on a rotation, for as long as the family needs them.
How a circle works
A family member, a friend, a church care team, or a hospital social worker sets it up and lists what actually needs doing — mow every other Saturday, clean on Thursdays, a grocery run each week.
Helpers ask to join. Nobody is added automatically. The coordinator sees who is asking and decides — because these people are coming to a home where someone is very sick.
The calendar fills in ahead. Each visit carries a safety code so the family knows exactly who is coming and when, and helpers confirm they are well before they go.
The two rules we build on
We never ask for medical details.A circle records that a household needs its lawn cut. It never records why. No diagnosis, no treatment, no prognosis — not on the form, not in the database. That is the family’s business and nobody else’s.
Nobody arrives unvetted. Joining is a request the coordinator approves. Someone in treatment often has almost no immune system, so every helper confirms they are well before a visit — and if they are not, they hand the shift back instead of turning up.
Circles asking for helpers
No circles are asking publicly right now. Many circles are private — set up quietly around one family and shared by invite only — so an empty board here doesn’t mean nothing is happening.
If you know a family in the middle of this, you can start their circle for them.
If you work at a clinic, infusion centre or church
You are the person families actually listen to. If you want to hand this to the households you already serve, we can give you a referral code so the circles you start are grouped together and you can see what your patients or members are getting. Get in touch from your account page and we will set one up.