JASON AND KIMBERLEY MCGIBBON | HAMILTON, ONTARIO


ALL THINGS
WORK
TOGETHER
FOR GOOD
MK’s brain surgery opens parents’ eyes to a town’s spiritual need
By Adam Miller


If Liam McGibbon had been tumor-free, you might not be reading about his parents. They probably would’ve never made it to Hamilton, Ontario, and certainly not as miraculously.


For one, Jason and Kimberley McGibbon didn’t imagine they would be church planters. At least that’s what they’ll tell you. And two, they weren’t looking to leave their life in Milton, a suburb of Toronto where Jason served as worship leader at The Sanctuary-Milton, and move to the other side of Lake Ontario.


Their story begins in a pediatrician’s office. Liam was complaining of headaches. Migraines run in the family, and so they assumed the best. When Kimberley heard it was much more serious, a parent’s worst nightmare materialized before her eyes.


“I remember when I found out about Liam and I thought ‘I can’t breathe’ and the room got very cold,” says Kimberley.


A tumor was growing in the middle of Liam’s brain.


The next week Jason, Kimberley and Liam were in Hamilton meeting with neurosurgeons at MacKids, the pediatric division of McMaster University Hospital. This couldn’t be happening. But it was.


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