Health, Hope & Inspiration for People of Faith Living with Cancer
Summary: A weekly radio podcast developed to help people find answers to questions about cancer, cancer prevention and overall healthy living. Each week, program host, the Rev. Percy McCray, and his co-host, Wayne Shepherd, share practical ways to find health, hope and inspiration along life's journey. Rev. McCray offers personal insights drawn from over 20 years in full-time pastoral care. The program also features a wide range of clinicians, doctors, pastors, nutritionists, wellness professionals and everyday people who share their expertise to provide tools to get well. Health, Hope and Inspiration is designed to encourage hearts, educate minds, strengthen bodies and build faith.
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Guest and cancer patient Lannett Lester joins the hosts of Health, Hope and Inspiration to share her vibrant story of faith and courage after losing her husband to cancer and then being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Lester also shares how making God the center of her joy has transformed her outlook on life and given her determination to live every day to the full.
Hosts Rev. Percy McCray and Wayne Shepherd sit down with cancer patient Maria Antaya, who shares her amazing story about how her life-changing encounter with the scriptures at age 24 has helped her cultivate a faith that sustains her in the face of a pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
Join the hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration as they discuss how the faith community is impacted when a pastor (or a spiritual leader) is diagnosed with cancer. They also suggest ways others can grow spiritually and be empowered by their example, despite present health challenges.
Cancer survivor Kellie Joseph shares her story about her journey through breast cancer as well as her experiences as a respiratory therapist and director of the cardiopulmonary team with CTCA. Joseph talks about how incorporating her faith into her profession and experience with breast cancer helped her to realize the importance of having a strong support system in place for life’s challenges, avoiding burnout, and to better empower and strengthen her patients.
Prostate cancer patient Edward talks with the hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration about how his faith helped him through his diagnosis and subsequent treatment, and how the value and importance of partnership with people who are invested in you can keep you going through the most trying circumstances.
In the second part of a special two-part episode, the hosts of Health, Hope and Inspiration once again sit down with cancer survivor Bernice Colvin to discuss the importance of caregiving for those on a cancer journey, and to help bring awareness and understanding for patients and families about the needs of caregivers who undertake that calling.
In part one of this special two-part podcast, cancer survivor Bernice Colvin talks about her experience being diagnosed with cancer, what it means to go through the highs and lows of a health challenge and how her faith was the bedrock that she relied upon to help her work through the process.
Join the hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration as they search the scriptures and discuss a commonly-asked question within the faith community—can God use cancer for His glory and ultimately for our benefit? Can we say that “all things can work for the good of them who love God and who are called according to His purpose”?
Dr. David Suh, Radiation Oncologist at CTCA Philadelphia, joins the hosts of Health, Hope and Inspiration in one of several engaging discussions about faith and medicine. Suh, who is also an ordained minister, talks about his own faith journey, and how that dynamic informs and drives his practice and how he relates to his patients.
Rev. Percy McCray talks with Fran Boyd, breast cancer survivor, Oral Roberts University grad and marathon runner, about her experiences at CTCA on her cancer journey, and her unique testimony of faith about how God never left her side. Pastor Percy also welcomes back Ossie Mills, Vice President of Global Communications and Marketing at Oral Roberts University and Executive Director of Empowered21, who provides some framework to the continuing discussion about the link between faith and medicine.
Rev. Percy McCray sits down with Ossie Mills, Vice President of Global Communications and Marketing at Oral Roberts University and Executive Director of Empowered21, to dialogue about the potentiality of prayer and medicine working together as a support for patients in a healthy and balanced way.
The hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration discuss the dilemma of guilt, anger and fear caregivers can face on many levels, particularly when they’re trying to come to terms with a situation they are unprepared for. They also talk about creative ways in which others can reach out and offer support to caregivers and their families in helpful, non-judgmental ways while being respectful of their individual needs.
In this second installment of a special two-part series, the hosts once again sit down with Gordon Robertson, host of the The 700 Club and CEO of the Christian Broadcasting Network, to talk further about being a minister in medical care and some of the profound and personal lessons about the dynamic between the natural and supernatural.
The hosts of Health, Hope and Inspiration sit down with Gordon Robertson, host of the “The 700 Club” and CEO of the Christian Broadcasting Network, for a special two-part series discussing ways the relationship between the faith community and the medical community can be strengthened and how people of faith can and should respond when faced with sickness.
The hosts of Health, Hope and Inspiration talk with Dr. Nathan Neufeld, national chief of pain management at CTCA Atlanta, Georgia, about the importance of building an integrative, specialized pain management plan for cancer patients.
