- It was this reallyexciting moment in my life.

We were getting this newjob, this new church family,

new city; but while this is happening,

as I get the new job,my tongue is swelling.

There's this thing on my tongue.

It was affecting my speech,

it was affecting me being able to eat.

They do a biopsy andthat's when I find out,

two weeks into this new job,

this new season of life, you have cancer.

My first response was that's not my story.

I have friends and that's their story.

I have family membersand that was their story.

This is not how my story goes.

My body shuts down.

All of a sudden, my hip, itfeels like my hip is broken.

It's in so much pain.

The next morning, I'mtrying to take a shower,

and as I get out of the shower,

my body just collapsed to the ground

and I'm shaking on the ground

and I just start screaming.

My wife runs over to see what's wrong

and my body's just convulsing.

I don't know how to explain it.

- [Narrator] Doctors discoveredthe stage three cancer

in Jason's tongue was secreting a chemical

that was poisoning himfrom the inside out.

His 13-day hospital stay included a trip

to the operating room.

- They drill a hole in myhip, now I'm in a wheelchair,

with cancer in my mouth.

So then, they do the firstsurgery and they open me up

from ear to ear and theybegin to remove half

of my lymph nodes and theyremove 20% of my tongue,

believing that they'llget all the cancer out.

It's over.

Now I'm getting, I'm goingto that promised land.

I'm gonna be the pastorGod called me to be.

All of a sudden, at theend of June, my tongue,

that same thing is on my tongue.

I remember the doctor, helooks at it and he says,

I don't know what to tellyou, but the cancer came back.

It came back more aggressive.

It's spreading quicker, it'salready spread to your neck.

It didn't spread this fast last time.

This is borderline stage four cancer.

We have to operate.

We're gonna remove most of your tongue.

To reconstruct your tongue,we're going to take a chunk

of your arm, we're gonnaform a tongue in your mouth.

Oh, and your leg, we'regonna have to take the skin

from your leg, we're gonnaput that on your arm.

I'm like, what...

- [Alyson] When the doctor was talking--

- Now, I'm a piano player, so he's like,

you're not gonna be ableto use your arm for awhile.

I'm a singer and a speaker and he says,

you're not gonna talk the same.

He kept talking and Iliterally stopped listening

and I just started crying.

And I felt so unprofessional.

I didn't feel like an adult,like a man, in that moment,

'cause I'm just sittingin the chair weeping

as the doctor is just tellingme what is gonna happen.

I'm like, I can't do this.

- He looked like he hadgotten out of warfare.

He was all bandaged up andeverything and he looked

like he had taken a pretty hard hit.

- I'm feeling like I need to throw up,

but I can't throw up becausemy tongue is so swollen.

I'm laying in the bathroom,I'm laying on the ground,

covered in my own waste,

and I'm throwing up.

I've got mucous pouring out of my neck,

blood coming out of my mouth,

and I am screaming in pain.

All I know is simple math.

The pain is too much.

The only way to end the pain is to die.

I remember typing it inGoogle, easy ways to die.

Easy ways to die, 'causeI'm tired of the pain.

So if I'm gonna kill myself,I don't want it to hurt.

- He was just in a persistent pain.

Usually, he could say hi,or usually he can smile,

but he couldn't do any of those things.

- She begins to do somethingthat she rarely ever does.

She begins to sing.

She begins to sing over me.

- I was fighting the worry,I was fighting the anxiety.

I was fighting the fear that the doctors

weren't gonna be right again.

But, I just kept onchoosing to worship God

and knowing that everythingwas gonna be okay.

- All of a sudden, in that moment,

I just felt like a presencejust enter the room.

It was like, it was likeif peace was a person,

he entered that room inthat moment and I just began

to drift off to sleep forthe first time in three days.

I woke up the next day andI started telling myself,

I'm not going to give up.

- [Narrator] It was Easter Sunday.

Jason's pastor came tothe house beforehand

and asked if he was well enough to stand

before the church congregation.

- And I remember, as soonas I walked on the stage

and Pastor Jeff hadn't warnedthem that I was coming,

I remember the wholeplace stood to their feet

and I felt what it felt liketo be a part of a family

who will walk with youthrough any journey in life,

a family that will love you even

when you've done nothing for them.

After many painful surgeries,the cancer came back.

Had to do more surgeries,chemotherapy, radiation.

They told me you might not sing again.

You might not even speak again.

But I'm here today, I'm standing,I'm walking, I'm jumping.

(congregation applauding)

And now, I get to sing andspeak about the goodness of God.

♪ You are greater ♪

♪ Than these walls I'm circling ♪

♪ You are stronger ♪

♪ Than this army that I see ♪

♪ You are bigger ♪

After two days, it's got 200,000 views.

I'm like, well, that's so cool.

People are being blessed by it.

A week later, it hits a million views.

And we're kind of feelinglike wait, what's happening?

All of a sudden, we have people from Korea

who fly to California to visit our church

to see what is happening here.

All of a sudden, I've gotpeople in Sweden, in Australia,

and the UK, who aremessaging us and saying,

hey, I have tongue cancer, too.

Or other people saying, I have,

I stopped painting because of my illness.

I stopped dancing because of my disease.

I stopped singing becausethe first time I heard

myself sing in the shower,

I broke down crying becauseof the tongue cancer.

But when I saw your story,

I decided I want my own come back story.

I don't like the false narrative that

you have to look back atyour life and be like,

oh, it's okay, 'cause it wasn't okay.

What happened to Jesus was not okay.

Him being nailed to across, being tortured,

was not okay, but it's about Jesus taking

the things in your life that are not okay,

they represent deathand darkness and despair

and hopelessness and Him saying,

watch the ultimate comeback.

I can redeem it.

I can bring what was dead back to life.

And now I look back andI see what a comeback.

Like, He did it and He gets all the glory,

and the only thing Ican do is never give up.

♪ This is my song ♪

♪ This is my dare ♪

♪ To worship You ♪

♪ Even as these walls are standing there ♪

(lively music)

(congregation applauding)