CHARLOTTE — Mya McKenzie Nguyen, who has been battling leukemia for more than six years, received her first Holy Communion Sept. 24 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, during Mass offered by Father Patrick Winslow, pastor. Her cousin Ryan was also baptized the same day.
Mya McKenzie, who is in fourth grade, is once again in remission for the sixth time, according to her father Thanh Nguyen.
Mya McKenzie's parents credit their faith in God and his many blessings for the successes they’ve had in her treatment over the past few years. Diagnosed when she was 3 years old, Mya McKenzie has relapsed five times, trying experimental and other options to treat the cancer as it returns.
Read about her journey here.
— Photos provided by John Cosmas and Thanh Nguyen
