Category Archives: Strength in Numbers/Awareness Event

Thank You for your support – Awareness Event 2022

On Sunday, May 15th, our Foundation attempted 1 more time to break an Official Guinness World Records title as part of our Childhood Cancer Awareness & Support event and wow – what a day it was!

While unfortunately, we did NOT break the Official Guinness World Record for Most people performing push-ups Sunday…we did something very special and I believe I can speak for all who were a part of it…they will not soon forget the day.

Once again, we came close with roughly 1,100 people in attendance – we just were not close enough to break that darn record. It would be easy to get discouraged as really getting 2,000 people together for an actual Guinness World Record attempt honoring families impacted by childhood
cancers and the honored heroes of our community – should not be that hard. But when you have the opportunity to be part of an event like this, when we have the opportunity to host an event like this – it’s truly not about the record at all. It’s so much more. Like some have said, breaking the record would have been icing on the cake – but the
cake was pretty darn good!

The skies opened up and the sun shone brightly down all day so that the flyover from our friends the Glory Hounds could happen not just once but several times – one of which created the shape of a heart over all of the honored families, our honored heroes, and all in attendance!

We had over 20 families participate from our area join us both in the ceremony and others amongst the crowd on the field who were celebrated and honored by all who were there.

We filled our last minute goal for Stewards which was a gift as that alone seemed to be an uphill battle that came in the last week of preparations for the event! Thank you to Park Valley Church and all who came to join us at the last minute to fill this need! You are truly amazing and we are so thankful.

The Tug-of-War teams from Battlefield (aka Champions of the Field????), Gainesville, Brentsville, and Patriot all really had a blast and we had a blast watching and cheering them all along! Thank you again to our friends at Sweet Julia Grace for lending us the rope from their Adult Field Day the day prior!

Huge Congrats to team Battlefield and to all the participating teams – which reminds us to ask – did the losing teams really get in that dunk tank???

Below are the winners of our Event Raffles:

  • Winner of the Insignia TV goes to MaryBeth Michel!
  • Winner of $250 Smoothie King Gift Card goes to Susan Wallace!
  • Winner of A Year of Chick-fil-A (52 meal cards) goes to Bridie Sheehan!
  • Winner of A Year of Chick-fil-A KIDS (52 kids meal cards) goes to Danica Davis!

All winners will be contacted via email to claim their prizes!!!
Congrats all!

Thank you to all our amazing sponsors and supporters of this event. We truly could not do what we do without your support and we are so thankful.

Thank you to all our volunteers, our planning team, to our Guinness World Record Adjucator who was awesome – to our Minion, Cavman, and Chick-fil-A Cow who ALL 3 joined in doing push-ups!

Finally, thank you to Scott Sikes Photography for capturing pictures from the entire day!

Below are just a few, but you can see all pictures here:
Full Photo Gallery courtesy of Scott Sikes

As mentioned at the event every dollar raised from this event will be allocated towards our 2022 Research Fund. If you’d like to make a donation, Donate

We do have some leftover EVENT specific apparel, get yours before midnight June 17th, go to Temporary Merchandise Shop!

Thank you again to everyone who contributed to making this event wonderful in every way!

Remember – no matter what it is you are going through, you are never alone, you are loved, and you have an ARMY behind you every step of the way!

It takes an ARMY to fight childhood cancer….
Together we are Alex’s Army!

Guinness World Record Attempt 2022

For Alex’s Army & NoVA Childhood Cancer Families

This is a childhood cancer awareness event.  We are creating a banner (or a few banners) with “Our Reasons Why” including pictures of local childhood cancer kiddos to honor your child and to show our community that childhood cancer is not rare.  If your child would like to be included on this banner you can do so in 2 ways.  IF you’re able to attend the event, simply sign up using the registration link above and indicate you would like more information about participating in the ceremony part of the event.  If you are not able to attend the event, send us an email through our Contact Us page and someone will reach out to you to get your child’s info and photo. All photos & info will need to be  submitted to us by April 15th to be included on the banner.

Have questions about the event?  Click on register and check-out the FAQs section in the Eventbrite sign-up!  Feel free to reach out if you still have questions afterward!

SPREAD THE WORD!  Follow us on social and help spread the word for this event!!!

There Is Strength in Numbers Photos

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13th Birthday/Awareness Event Recap

On Saturday, April 8th, 2017 – Alex’s Army came together as #onevoice with other childhood cancer focused organizations from the Northern VA area and together attempted to break the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the Most people performing push ups!!! The event titled There is Strength in Numbers was held on what would have been Alex’s 13th Birthday and was held not only in honor of him, but to honor ALL children who are fighting, who have fought, and who will fight childhood cancers.

It was such a wonderful day filled with so many blessings. There were food trucks, guest speakers such as Gainesville District Supervisor Pete Candland, Stillbrave Founder Tom Mitchell, Hopecam Founder Len Forkas, and prayer led by Park Valley Church Lead Pastor Barry White.

Even though we didn’t break the Guinness World Record for the Most people performing push-ups in this initial attempt, we ended up with 1,108 people from all over our community coming together for a #greatercause on Battlefield High School’s football field ALL doing push-ups TOGETHER! We were SO CLOSE as the record was 1,645 people…we know our Alex and all of the sweet children who have left us too soon were so incredibly proud!

And just as children fighting cancer do not give up – WE are NOT going to give up. Stay tuned for exciting information coming soon!

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Thank you to our sponsors for this event: The Dunham Family, A-1 FloodTech, BB&T, F.H. Furr, Gainesville Hurricanes, Minnieland Dominion Valley, NextPoint Group, The Carlot Store.

Thank you also to the Non-Profits / Organizations who came together with us: D.C. Sled Sharks, D.C. Candlelighters, Fairfax Falcons, Healing Hearts, Hopecam, Ellie’s Hats, Special Love, Stillbrave Childhood Cancer Foundation, Sweet Julia Grace Foundation, Team Mathias, and The Truth 365

Special Shout-Out also to Backflip Cat Productions, Big Country Amusements, Commercial Sound of VA, CostCo Fairfax, Giant Dominion Valley, Chick-Fil-A Haymarket, Battlefield High School, Harris Teeter Heathcote Dr, Joy to the Kids, May’s Masquerade, Snowie Bus of VA, Park Valley Church, Pittsburgh Rick’s, RicArepa, The 501st Legion, Heather Williams KEEP Collective, Jeanna Hilton LulaRoe, Christina Stephens LulaRoe, Erica Tredinnick Honey & Lace, Kristi Catlett, The Little Things 18

Alex’s Birthday Awareness Photos

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Guinness World Records™ Title Attempt for Childhood Cancer Awareness Press Release

Letter of Support/Sponsorship Form