Pastor Giraud Of St. Jude Joins Houston's Moening News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pastor Giroro joins us. He's based here in Houston, worked
with Saint Jude Tuilno's Research Hospital. What's your title again, pastor?
Hang on his microphone? Please all right, there you go. Okay,
it's up now, senior advisor. Hang on. That sounds like
a promotions is the last time I talked to you?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, they all are so glad to be able to
help out.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Let me guess, new title, same bay, same pastor, same pastor.
That's the most important thing. How important is something like this,
these fundraisers for Saint Jude that you pretty much will
almost one hundred percent depend on these, don't you.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's right. So families never received a bill from Saint
Jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food, so that a
family can just help their child live, and so we
want to help them to focus on that. We want
to take off the burden because when you're sick with cancer,
of course, it impacts everybody, right, and so our families
don't have to worry about that. They can be next
to their child helping them get better. And we can't
do that without your listeners, without the public helping us

(00:57):
to keep the lights on and put food on the table.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
You always love. The story about Saintrew got started with
Danny Thomas. You know, he just kind of made a
little prayer. You know, Lord, I'm trying to get into
this entertainment business to help me along, and I will,
I will that I will give you a big payback.
And he certainly did, didn't he.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
And his first job was on the radio station as
a singing toothbrush, and Danny kept his promise. So one
guy made one promise and he kept it. And that
was in nineteen sixty two, and from then we've been
able to treat over eighty five hundred active patients.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
I was going to say, how much has Saint Joe jildanen'shere?
He started to talk how have things changed there since
nineteen sixty two? For one thing, a lot of cancer
cures and treatments have been bound, haven't they?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, from twenty percent which was a survival rate when
the hospital first opened its doors, to eighty percent now
and the most common form of cancer at Q, lymphoblastic leukemia,
had a four percent survival rate. Today we're north of
ninety four percent. But you know what that means, there's
still six kids, six percent of kids that don't survive
the most common form of cancer and that's not okay.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
And we wanted to mention that because that's that's in
addition to helping these families, that's where the money goes
that Saint Jude raises is under that research button. I
think Saint Jude Tones Research Hospital has done more for
cancer treatments that I think any other hospital in the
entire country.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Listen, the research part of our name is really important, right,
because our doctors are able to go from the lab
to bedside to help kids with the most unique with
the most common form of cancers. They're able to help
bring that survival rate up, and then we share that
research freely, right, not just here locally, but nationally in international.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, it's pretty amazing what you folks do. Again, we
want to remind everybody that's where the money goes. Charity
Navigator has given you guys about as higher rating as
you could possibly get.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's right, and we loved the support of the public
and we put those fonts.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
To good use. Here's how you can donate. Call one
eight hundred five eight eight fourteen thirty three. That's eight
hundred five eight eight fourteen thirty three. Or text kids
kids to six two six two six two. You get
a T shirt, you get a Saint Jude hoodie. It's
just nineteen dollars a month. You can put it right
on the credit card. I'me drof the the card every month.
Simple easy. You'll spend more on that on breakfast tomorrow morning.

(03:03):
I guarantee it.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
You can make your donation in honor of the state
of the healthy kid in your life, because you never
know when it could happen to any of us.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well said, pass forward, Thank you,