COLUMBIANA COUNTY, Ohio

Chelsea Lingenfelter, 21, of Wellsville is in the Cleveland Clinic fighting Stage 4 liver disease.

"They're calling her Chelsea Balboa right now. She's not giving up. She'll have her setbacks but she just picks herself back up and keeps going," said family friend Lorie Baumgarner.

At age 4, Lingenfelter was diagnosed with adult liver cancer, and by age 7, her mother had given her a piece of her liver.

It was only expected to last Lingenfelter seven years but it lasted 14.

"Now she is back at the starting point, she's been in need of a liver for a year now," said Baumgarner.

It is a tall order, but her family and friends have not given up hope.

From support on Facebook to the website aliverforchelsea.weebly.com, perfect strangers have shown their support.

Baumgarner even started up "Team Chelsea."

"It's been a year, we've sold shirts, bracelets. We had a spaghetti dinner, we do raffles often," said Baumgarner.

The money raised goes toward helping Chelsea's mom to be able to stay in Cleveland with her daughter throughout the week.

"Maybe you can't give blood, you can't give an organ. Maybe some people don't have the money to give, but the one thing everyone can give is love," said Baumgarner.

On Saturday, Feb. 16, the community will gather for a "Celebration of Hope" for Lingenfelter.

Everyone will be lighting candles at the First Christian Church on Main Street in Wellsville at 6 p.m.