Rebekah Tauber is a 15 year old from Houston who is presently undergoing cancer treatment. Rebekah has a rare form of cancer but is undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy at the University of Texas' MD Anderson Cancer Center.
She is a fierce Christian who attends Memorial High School. Rebekah is wearing a "prayer pager" (1-800-250-6939) that is being sponsored by Second Baptist Church in Houston.
Please take a minute out of your busy day to say a quick prayer for Rebekah, her family and her doctors asking for God's guiding hand to be with them through this ordeal and then call the toll free number (1-800-250-6939). It will vibrate letting Rebekah know that someone has prayed on her behalf.

Feel free to pass this email on and thanks for your support and prayers.

Call.... it just takes a second or two!

Those who do choose to page Rebekah at 1-800-250-6939 to tell her prayers are being offered up on her behalf will be greeted by this message:

""You have reached the Second Baptist Church prayer pager for Rebekah Tauber. At the tone please enter your five-digit zip code followed by the # sign and Rebekah's pager will go off. Rebekah will know she's been prayed for by you. Thank you and God bless.
Barbara "rebeckoned" Mikkelson""


--And for those who may think this is a scam or fake, read the following link: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/children/tauber.asp

-Please don't spread any religious hate in this thread, just call the little girl and let her know you care.

I don't have a pager, but my heart and prayers go out to Rebekah. :\'(

Done...  :)

I don't have a pager, but my heart and prayers go out to Rebekah. :\'(


You don't need one, just dial the 1-800 number, listen to the woman, dial in your 5 digit ZIP code (to let them know where the page is coming from,) wait for the soft-sounding beeps to stop, and then hang up.  Simple and free, and she knows someone else cares.

I think it's all a scam. ::)


Howard

I think it's all a scam. ::)


Howard


I hope you're joking.  This is from snopes, an urban legend reference page with, with independent studies, deems an urban ''legend'' true or false.

From scopes:

Claim:  15-year-old cancer sufferer Rebekah Tauber requests calls to her prayer pager.

Status:  True.

Examples: 

Rebekah Tauber is a 15 year old from Houston who is presently undergoing cancer treatment. She is a fierce Christian who attends Memorial High School. Rebekah is wearing a "prayer pager" (1-800-250-6939) that is being sponsored by Second Baptist Church in Houston.

Please take a minute out of your busy day to say a quick prayer for Rebekah, her family and her doctors asking for God's guiding hand to be with them through this ordeal and then call the toll free number (1-800-250-6939). It will vibrate letting Rebekah know that someone has prayed on her behalf.

Feel free to pass this email on and thanks for your support and prayers.

Call.... it just takes a second or two! 

Origins:  Many of the Internet-circulated appeals made in the names of unwell children are naught but mean attempts to provoke the good-hearted into clogging the inboxes of those like themselves as they unknowingly spread false pleas to their friends, family members, and co-workers. But that is not the case with this supplication — it is truly on the up-and-up, as the folks at Second Baptist Church in Houston confirmed when we asked them about it on 9 November 2004. 

Of the prayer request for Rebekah Tauber, they say "It's legit." 15-year-old Rebekah has a rare form of cancer but is undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy at the University of Texas' MD Anderson Cancer Center.

The prayer pager program is so recent an innovation for Second Baptist that information about it has yet to be reflected on its web site. At the moment, there are five people carrying such pagers, three adults and two children. The pastor at Second Baptist gained the idea from an e-mailed prayer request for an afflicted child elsewhere in the country — that solicitation for calls to a prayer pager carried by the youngster sparked the desire to try such a program in Houston.

We'd like to say it was the Joe William Sheffield appeal that inspired Second Baptist to try its hand at such an endeavor, but alas it was not — the prayer pager request was for a little girl.

Those who do choose to page Rebekah at 1-800-250-6939 to tell her prayers are being offered up on her behalf will be greeted by this message:
You have reached the Second Baptist Church prayer pager for Rebekah Tauber. At the tone please enter your five-digit zip code followed by the # sign and Rebekah's pager will go off. Rebekah will know she's been prayed for by you. Thank you and God bless.
Barbara "rebeckoned" Mikkelson

Last updated:  9 November 2004

Again, link to article: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/children/tauber.asp