Help Precious Christine Novak Access Vital Cancer Treatment

An extraordinary friend of mine, Christine Lena Novak, needs URGENT help...

Christine worked for 25 years as an award winning and exemplary nurse, caring for countless people with truly inspiring compassion, strength, and faith. Fresh off raising two beloved daughters as a single mom in New York, she moved to Texas in 2012. Christine spent most of her days working at Austin's Seton hospital, and devoted her days off to Community First Village, volunteering as a missional to the formerly homeless community within the ground breaking program there.

I've watched her give tirelessly to enhancing the lives of those long forgotten. Her own life has been a testament to full service to others and her commitment to healing has impacted so many lives for the better. 

Those that know and love Christine never imagined she would ultimately be the one needing support... 

But in February 2021, our golden-hearted girl was diagnosed with lung cancer. She's undergone various treatments. Unfortunately, they’re no longer working well. 

Recent reports show the cancer has now spread to her brain and bones. Though her options are limited, Christine is determined not to give up...

One promising therapy to enhance her treatments is high-dose vitamin C infusions, which can help support her immune system, improve quality of life, and potentially slow the progression of her disease. Most importantly, it can help renew her body with the dire strength she needs for upcoming extremely challenging chemotherapy.

Sadly, this isn't covered by insurance, and the cost is around $2,500 for the initial course. 

Despite her years-long war with cancer, Christine has never once asked for anything beyond spiritual or emotional support. But now in 2025, medical bills have deteriorated her finances to devastating degrees. 

As she bravely continues this fight, if you can contribute, your donations will go directly to her and toward these infusions, giving this selfless woman a chance at the life she still desperately wants to live.

Christine dreams of time... the kind that would allow her to watch her young grandchildren, Audry, Adria, and Ronan (the baby of the bunch who she hasn't even gotten the opportunity to meet yet), grow up. After so much isolation, she longs to reconnect with friends and family, to get back to attending her beloved Heavy Metal concerts, to walk on beaches, and, with her whole heart, she wants the opportunity to continue to be a light... to exemplify Jesus’ love in this world through her absolute dedication to the marginalized. 

With our help, perhaps Christine can have these things. If you can donate, you'd be giving back to one who has humbly given so much to humanity... a real life unsung hero.

If you can’t, please consider sharing this page or simply keeping Christine in your prayers. I can say, without hesitation, we need her and she would do these things for us.

Christine appreciates all those helping her through this journey beyond measure.

Thank you for your consideration.

With great hope,

Tamara Salem Moore

Festival & Film Producer / Scribe

Austin, Texas