"We interrupt these regularly scheduled Facebook posts for a special announcement," Joni Eareckson Tada says with a big grin.

The Christian author stands beside her husband in a video posted to her social media account Friday, looking as if she might burst with the news she is about to share.

"We're so excited," Tada says as her husband, Ken, echos the sentiment.

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Oh friends, I have some wonderful news to share with you!

Posted by Joni Eareckson Tada on Friday, June 19, 2020

It's news the couple has been hoping and praying for since Tada first announced she was cancer-free in July 2019.

Tada's recent cancer diagnosis was announced through Joni and Friends, Tada's international organization assisting those with disabilities, in November of 2018. Tada had been diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer eight years before, undergoing chemotherapy and a mastectomy in 2010.