8/24/2025 Update by Steph Hoffman

Family and friends, it’s time for an update. Three weeks of radiation at the University of Michigan has been completed. Hunter and Marci are very glad to be home. Hunter has been battling some fatigue and loss of appetite but once again has shown perseverance through another step of the journey. He is our warrior!

Tomorrow begins the targeted therapy which will be an experimental oral medication taken twice daily. Thank you for continuing to pray with us for limited side effects and for this therapy to kill any remaining cancerous cells invading his brain.

Our families continue to come boldly before the throne of King Jesus, whom we love and who loves us! Thank you for joining us in this fight with Hunter and Marci. Together our prayers are powerful!

We know God can do more than we think or imagine and we give Him all praise.

Acts 20:24

From the bottom of our hearts,

Team Hunter

8/1/25 Update by Lance Miller

Thanks for your love, support, meals and prayers!

It has been one month since Hunter’s third brain surgery (July 2nd) and he and Marci are adjusting to life with Hunter’s partial vision and cognitive impairments. We remain thankful for God’s grace that we experience daily.

We feel privileged to have a faith community supporting us in concerted prayer. We share the details of the treatment plan below so that your prayers can be more specific and meaningful.

Monday (August 4th) Hunter will begin a three-week radiation regimen at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. Please be praying the radiation is effective in thwarting back the cancer cells lingering on the tumor cavity on the right side of his brain. Marci plans to begin teaching school the second week of radiation (August 11-15) so also pray for her and her kindergarten students that all goes well.

Immediately following radiation (around August 25th) Hunter will start an oral chemotherapy with a drug called Abemaciclib. It is experimental with Hunter’s variety of cancer but has shown the best results in lab tests against the cancer from Hunter’s biopsy.

Hunter’s ‘Life Verse’ inspires me daily as I see him and Marci living it out. They continue to testify to the good news of God’s grace……no matter their circumstances.

Acts 20:24

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

7/1/2025 Update by Lance Miller

Hunter is scheduled for his third craniotomy tomorrow (Wednesday July 2nd) at the University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor. Please join us in prayer for this.

At his last surgery (6/11/25) a tumor was detected on his post-surgery MRI on the right side of his brain and was measuring 3.0 cm (the first two have been on the left side). Sixteen days later it has nearly doubled in size to 5.6 cm growing rapidly. This tumor is not in an area critical to speech so he will be asleep for the entire procedure. However, this is still a major surgery with extreme risks.

In the weeks since his last surgery, Hunter has been experiencing a mild decline in his language and vision functionality.

Hunter was admitted to U of M Monday night (6/30/25) after experiencing severe headaches and the medical team preferred him being in house so they can manage his care best prior to surgery. This involved a LONG ambulance ride for Hunter and Marci from Goshen ER after getting some good drugs to relive his pain.

Through this journey we continue to experience God’s blessings in so many unique ways. Hunter and Marci are facing the situation with hearts open to God and with much gratitude for the friends and family supporting them in prayer. They feel your love and support.

The Hoffman’s and Miller’s thank you for being a critical part of our support and for being part of the journey. We pray that you experience God in a fresh and unique way today!

Acts 20:24

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

The verse above has been Hunter’s life mission verse for many years even having it engraved on his baseball glove. Hunter and Marci are living this out so well that even in the midst of really hard stuff…..God’s grace is really good news!

7/24/2025 Prayer Request from Marci

Please pray that Hunter would be able to stay in good spirits, especially through the next round radiation and chemo.

7/12/24 - Prayer for Hunter as he recovers from surgery and navigates challenges resulting from the latest surgery.

7/1/2025 Update by Lance Miller

Hunter is scheduled for his third craniotomy tomorrow (Wednesday July 2nd) at the University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor. Please join us in prayer for this.

At his last surgery (6/11/25) a tumor was detected on his post-surgery MRI on the right side of his brain and was measuring 3.0 cm (the first two have been on the left side). Sixteen days later it has nearly doubled in size to 5.6 cm growing rapidly. This tumor is not in an area critical to speech so he will be asleep for the entire procedure. However, this is still a major surgery with extreme risks.

In the weeks since his last surgery, Hunter has been experiencing a mild decline in his language and vision functionality.

Hunter was admitted to U of M Monday night (6/30/25) after experiencing severe headaches and the medical team preferred him being in house so they can manage his care best prior to surgery. This involved a LONG ambulance ride for Hunter and Marci from Goshen ER after getting some good drugs to relive his pain.

Through this journey we continue to experience God’s blessings in so many unique ways. Hunter and Marci are facing the situation with hearts open to God and with much gratitude for the friends and family supporting them in prayer. They feel your love and support.

The Hoffman’s and Miller’s thank you for being a critical part of our support and for being part of the journey. We pray that you experience God in a fresh and unique way today!

Acts 20:24

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

The verse above has been Hunter’s life mission verse for many years even having it engraved on his baseball glove. Hunter and Marci are living this out so well that even in the midst of really hard stuff…..God’s grace is really good news!

6/11/2025 Update by Steph Hoffman

Surgery is done. Hunter did well. Marci will get to see him in a couple hours. Thanking God for his continued faithfulness.

The surgeon was not able to remove all of the tumor as it was right on Hunter’s area of speech.

Roughly, 70% was removed but that was a guess. The removed tumor is being treated with different meds in the research lab here on campus over the next couple weeks to see if anything can be used to treat the remaining tumor. Our prayers will focus on finding a treatment.

The cavity looked clean from the last surgery.

Prayers also continue for no complications or swelling in the next few days.

Thank you for your endless prayers for minimal swelling, a fast recovery and next steps in the journey.

We appreciate all of you!

5/25/2025 Update by Marci Hoffman

Happy 24th Birthday to the best thing that has ever happened to me. Hunter, you show me daily how patient, brave, hardworking, humble, funny, and loving you really are. The way you continue to live your life out in your own way, refusing to let cancer take over is beautiful to all who know you.

It’s been a while since we’ve posted any updates on Hunter and his Diffuse Hemispheric Glioma. It’s been a tough season of trying to figure out next steps without many clear answers.

Hunter finished out his radiation and initial chemo treatment in March. He then began a new dosage of chemo. Scans in April showed 2 new “spots”, but it was unclear whether this was new tumor growth or effects from radiation. More scans in May showed that there was some continued growth in those areas, and one spot particularly seemed to appear as tumor. Several doctors feel that the best next step is a second brain surgery to remove what they can of those spots.

The surgery date has not been officially scheduled, but at the very latest will be June 11th at U of M. He will be awake during the surgery to help guide the doctors in preserving his language function as they remove the portions they think are likely tumor. While surgery, and all that comes with it, is not fun news to Hunter, he continues to amaze and inspire me and everyone around him with his bravery, level-headedness, selflessness, and faith.

We appreciate all your prayers as Hunter takes on this next part of his journey.

3/7/25 Update by Lance Miller

Today marks the completion of Hunter’s 30 radiation/chemo treatments! Yes!! Hunter seems to have responded positively to the treatments with minimal side effects outside of some fatigue, mild headaches, and partial hair loss from the radiation. This is a HUGE answer to the prayers of many!! Thanks to each of you who have prayed. Marci attended every session for the past six weeks alongside Hunter.

Hunter continues working daily at the CPA firm in Goshen and Marci in her Kindergarten class. Jill (Marci’s mom) fills in for Marci whenever she needs a substitute teacher and Hunter’s firm has been very supportive and flexible with his schedule.

Hunter will take a well-deserved reprieve from treatments for a few weeks before an MRI and follow up visits with specialists in early April. Those images will provide feedback on how effective the past 30 sessions were and help plan any future treatments.

Please continue to pray for Hunter and Marci in this season. They have been overwhelmed by your support and seek to continue serving God in and through this trial. God has been good and each day we find things to be thankful for.

Isaiah 41:13 For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.

1/25/25 Update by Lance Miller

The unwavering faith and consistent courage of Hunter and Marci in this journey inspires me.

Monday (1/27/25) will mark four weeks since Hunter’s brain surgery removing his tumor. On Monday he also begins his radiation and chemo treatment plan. Radiation will be administered in Goshen and the chemo is oral. His treatments are scheduled five days a week for the next six weeks.

Join us in prayer that God uses this treatment to knock back and eradicate any cancer cells remaining post surgery. We have sensed the enormous prayer support in the past weeks and humbly ask you to KEEP PRAYING for complete healing.

Since surgery Hunter has felt remarkably well with no side effects! Praise God for that! He returned to the office a week after surgery working full time and I think he said nonchalantly, “It’s busy season you know!”.

He and Marci have been attending medical appointments almost daily and feel good with their care team. The oncology team at Parkview has been remarkable and allowing daily treatment in Goshen will be a blessing. They also have a renowned neuro-oncologist in Indy rounding out their care team.

Hunter and Marci have been blessed by your love, prayers, meals, notes, texts, gift cards and amazing support. If you are reading this, you are part of the journey and we humbly ask for you to continue praying. Hunter and Marci said, “God is somehow using this for good in the midst of us feeling like the most unlikely characters for such a journey. God is still Good.”

Ephesians 3:20 - Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.

12/31/2024 Update by Marci Hoffman

Hunter and I rarely take pictures together. I’m talking MAYBE 15 since we were married a year and a half ago. He’s always been too much of an enjoy-the-moment kind of guy to stop and take a picture. But Monday, we stopped the car and snapped a picture. Not because we dressed up or because we wanted to make a post. We took a picture because we truly had no idea what his craniotomy that day would bring. A picture, just in case our lives were never the same. In the last few months, I have been learning the truth of the cliché saying “cherish every moment”.

I put off this post for a while. How do I put words to the wide range of emotions we’ve experienced in the last 3 months? Why write some big sappy post to a bunch of people that don’t need to be weighed down by our hardships? Hunter NEVER asks for a spotlight. Yet, despite our hesitancy, hundreds of people have wrapped us in a giant hug of prayer, support, sympathy, selflessness, generosity and encouragement that proved me so wrong. This isn’t just about sharing the hardships, but also bringing to light the testimony of love God has shown us through his guidance and an overwhelming amount of people.

To all those that reached out and prayed in the last couple of days, “thank you” just isn’t enough. Please know if I wasn’t able to respond, every word and song was taken to heart. Your prayers MATTERED. God has been so faithful in the midst of hard news. Hunter’s grade 4 glioblastoma was not in the plans for our second year of marriage. We don’t know why it became part of our story… yet.

Here’s what we know: God is somehow using this for good in the midst of us feeling like the most unlikely characters for such a journey. He is with us. He cares deeply about our heart ache. Hunter is going to have to battle. God is showing us the staggering amount of people willing to fight alongside him. God is still good.

I wish every person could see the brave, selfless, incredible ways Hunter has already been fighting. In a life-altering diagnosis, never once has he complained. How proud I am to call him my husband. How grateful I am that he came out of surgery the same old goofy, humble, intelligent, loving Hunter I fell in love with. Praise Jesus we get to keep on taking pictures together.