Race for a Kidney: A Pastor's Fight to Live

Pastor Steven Mills has already survived two cancers. Now the treatment that saved his life has left him fighting for a kidney transplant that could take up to five years to find.

In this episode, Pastor Mills of First Baptist Church in Garden City, Kansas shares his journey through Hodgkin's lymphoma, colon cancer, and now end-stage renal disease and what it means to keep showing up for his daughter when his body won't cooperate. Dr. Giselle Guerra, Medical Director of Transplant Services at the Miami Transplant Institute, joins the conversation to explain HLA sensitization, why Black patients often wait longer for a compatible kidney, and what it truly costs to become a living donor.

This is a story about survival, faith, and the fight to be present for the people who need us most.

Pastor Mills has a GoFundMe set up to help cover what insurance doesn't link and living donor information in the episode notes.

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