Creating a Community of Care for Families with Special Needs
Daniel and Sarah have three children: Sam (13), Abby (11), and Ellie (3). When Ellie was born, she struggled with breathing and airway issues...
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Sanctity of Human Life
My daughter, Sarah, did not open her eyes for the first six weeks of her life. While in utero, Sarah was diagnosed with Down syndrome, a heart defect...
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Jan
Serving with Love: Bringing the Hands and Feet of Jesus to Families in Need
Pal and Julie have been married for nineteen years and have a wonderful sixteen-year-old son named Brady, who has cerebral palsy. Their family was brought...
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Jan
Florida Family Retreat Has Changed Lives for Decades… and It’s Needed Now More than Ever!
Did you know that in 1992 the state of Florida hosted one of the very first Joni and Friends Family Retreats? So rewind to the early 90s…
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Jan
Providence That’s Painful
A really striking Scripture is Psalm 139:16. ”All our days were ordained and in his book they were all written.” That word “all” encompasses happy...
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Jan
Heavenly Citizenship
Christians who think the most of the next world are usually those who are doing the most good in this present world. It is the person whose mind...
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Jan
Reconnect and Carry One Another’s Burdens at Family Retreat
Traci knows what it is like to look for rest and hope. When she was two, her left foot needed to be amputated due to multiple birth defects. Over time, ...
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Jan
Reaching Families with the Love of Christ
Two weeks after Gabe was born, this precious family was involved in a terrible car accident. They all had minor injuries—except Gabe...
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Jan
Every Life is a Gift from God
The book of Genesis says that when God created mankind on the sixth day, he breathed into the dust and formed male and female in his own image and likeness...
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Jan
Confidence in God’s Love Grows at Family Retreat
Bryden has Leigh syndrome, cerebral palsy, and swallowing difficulties. He has challenges communicating and requires a wheelchair for mobility...
