Cameron Moffitt Huelin

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing. (2 Tim 4.7-8)

Cameron Moffitt Huelin--faithful disciple, devoted husband, loving son and brother, loyal friend, servant leader--passed out of this mortal life and into eternity on March 18, 2025. A fiercely competitive athlete, he ran the race of his short but beautiful life with both determination and love.

Both of these were on display in his most recent race, a fundraiser marathon for St Jude Children’s Hospital in December 2024. He and his brother Jeremy set out to start and finish the 26-mile run together, but Jeremy fell ill halfway through. When Cameron met his goal and finished the race in under 4 hours, he went back looking for his brother, covering at least 6 additional miles in the process, all while taking chemotherapy and an experimental anti-cancer drug.

How did he become this kind of person? Cameron’s journey of Christian faith began when he was baptized at First Methodist Church (Valparaiso, IN) in 2004. In his younger years, his faith formation was nurtured especially well by Immanuel Lutheran Church and School of Valparaiso and by his godparents, David and Sue Hord. After he moved with his family to Jackson, TN, Augustine School helped shape him intellectually and spiritually. In his high school years, Cameron was profoundly shaped by the ministry of Fr. Brian Larsen Wells and All Saints Anglican Church (Jackson, TN), where he became a confirmed member in 2015. Around this time his relationship with his brother Jeremy solidified into an inseparable bond of love, trust, loyalty, respect, and childlike joy that would endure and deepen with time. He took a job as a farmhand with Marmilu Farms (Humboldt, TN) where, under the guidance of the farm owner, Caleb Curlin, he developed a strong work ethic and began to dream about a career in the military. During high school, he demonstrated gifts in leadership on the soccer field, on the cross country course, and in the gym. Some of his most important friendships formed around weightlifting and fitness more generally; he was constantly inviting young men to the gym who needed positive alternatives to less salutary pastimes, and there he also developed a close circle of lifelong friends who self-effacingly refer to themselves as the 4.5 Dudes.

Through purposeful preparation and hard work, Cameron won a National Army ROTC Scholarship and used it to attend Biola University, having voluntarily given up his college allowance to facilitate his brother’s college education. There he majored in business and completed the Torrey Honors great books curriculum; simultaneously he minored in Military Science at California State University Fullerton. ROTC provided him with many opportunities to further develop his leadership skills, his work ethic, his fitness, and his skills in ministry. He held many leadership positions in his battalion, including Chaplain and Ranger Challenge Team captain, earned the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge, and was ranked as the top of his cadet class. He, along with Pat Huelgas, led a Bible study that bore much spiritual fruit in leading fellow cadets to, or back to, faith in Christ. Cameron also completed a number of summer military training camps, including Air Assault School and Advanced Camp, where he ranked as the top cadet by his peers and won the RECONDO badge. At Biola he experienced rich spiritual formation and met the love of his life, Allison Jane Wells; together they became active members of All Saints Anglican Cathedral (Long Beach, CA) and worked together in the children’s ministry. Eventually they began to talk of marriage. Meanwhile, Cameron was on track to commission as a military intelligence officer upon graduating in spring of 2023 while pursuing, with his brother and their wives, a long-term dream of developing buildings together and raising their families on a shared piece of property.

In October 2022, a malignant brain tumor interrupted all of these plans. By the end of the year, Cameron had undergone two brain surgeries and entered the care of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. The excellent treatment he received there (especially from Dr. Emily Hanzlik and NP Meredith Canale in the Brain Tumor Clinic) made it possible for him to return to work full-time in the summer of 2023, serving as a Safety Inspector and Marketing Director for Hoyt Hayes Construction, and to marry Allison in an incredibly joy-filled ceremony at All Saints Jackson on August 26 of that year. Attendees travelled from all over the country to be there.

Because Cameron faced his cancer diagnosis with courage, determination, and faith, the 27 months following his initial diagnosis were remarkably rich, joyful, and well-lived. His mantra was “No Bad Days”: every day is a gift and must be received as such, even when bad things happen. The biblical book of Job was important to Cameron before cancer, but it became priceless to him during this trial. Cameron and Allison built a beautiful life together, growing in Christ and in love for one another, making the most of the time they would be given. He volunteered with the youth at All Saints Jackson and continued to build close relationships with his brother Jeremy and with the 4.5 Dudes. He trained for and completed the St Jude Half-Ironman triathlon in October 2023 and the St Jude Marathon in both 2023 and 2024 while still in cancer treatment. After a long appeal process culminating in a video call with the Surgeon General of the US, he was permitted to return to CA to finish his ROTC training and to finish college. In December 2024, he graduated from Biola with a BS in Business and was one week from commissioning as an Army officer when a scan revealed the new tumors in his brain which would ultimately take his life. At what should have been his commissioning service, he received the Distinguished Military Graduate Award, a distinction earned by the top 10% of ROTC cadets nationwide.

Cameron’s final days, like the rest of his life, were filled with extraordinary faith, hope, and love. During his time in hospice care at St Jude, he regularly expressed gratitude to the doctors and nurses there, a gratitude we now share more fully after having directly experienced their remarkably humane approach to health care. Cameron also frequently asked for Holy Communion to be brought to him, and he participated as fully as he was able in the accompanying prayers. The family is grateful for the ministry of Fr. Wes Gristy and Deacon Nan Thomas (All Saints, Jackson), Fr. Drew Haltom (Church of the Incarnation, Memphis), Rev. Dr. Jeremy Jones (Memphis City Seminary), Rev. Dr. Kevin Chiarot and Elder Sam Chhim (Covenant Presbyterian, Jackson), and Rev. Brian Larsen Wells (Jearoldstown UMC) during those final days. We are so grateful for all who came to support him as he finished his race: Chuck and Kristin Davis, the Days, the Binkleys, the Joneses, the Favaras, and Chloe Sanford. We also thank the many others who sustained us in our vigil by way of prayer, visits, food, or notes of encouragement. Cameron is survived by his wife Allison, his parents Scott and Tamarin, his brother Jeremy, his (soon-to-be) sister-in-law Lucy, his aunt Kristin and uncle Chuck Davis, his godmother Sue Hord, the remaining 4.5 Dudes, and extended family on both sides. Now that he has finished the race of this mortal life before all of us, we fully expect he’ll be running back for us when we get there.

A visitation will be held at All Saints Anglican Church in Jackson, TN on Saturday, March 22 at 1 pm, followed by the funeral at 3 pm. Afterwards, the family will participate in a graveside committal service.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to this fund to help meet Allison’s current and future financial needs.