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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Cancer survivor and cancer care minister Stan Reaves talks candidly about the highs and lows of being a caregiver for his wife, and how his experience with the Our Journey of Hope Leadership Training helped to renew his faith while equipping others.
The hosts of Health, Hope and Inspiration focus on effective approaches to cancer care ministry, and ways to meet an individual’s unique needs while on their cancer journey.
Dr. Michael Pinell’s career with Cancer Treatment Centers of America began a bit unconventionally. He started out as a patient. Diagnosed with Stage IV lymphoma, he was treated successfully, and was then recruited to CTCA’s urgent care department. Now, Dr. Pinell shares with the hosts about how his experiences as a physician and a believer have enabled him to use integrative medicine as a God-given tool to treat and help those with cancer.
Four-time cancer survivor Laurie Sparks can tell you a thing or two about storms. Working in a high-profile position in the Georgia state capital, Laurie successfully juggled career and family life until she was diagnosed with cancer…and on the heels of her father’s death from kidney cancer. Not to be deterred, Laurie resolved to focus her faith and push through. Now cancer-free, Laurie shares how a recurring dream helped her realize that God is always bigger than anything we fear.
Minister Larry Jones has a passion for God and people. So when Larry was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2013, he did the only thing he knew how to do: “FACE THE FACTS” and believe God. Join the hosts as they chat with Larry about how truly living by faith in the face of illness does not equate to denial, and that the good news is the “FACTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.”
For 36-year-old Jennifer Thigpen, life couldn’t be better. Her career was on track. She was healthy. She had a loving husband and two beautiful children. Then seemingly out of nowhere, Jennifer received a shocking diagnosis: breast cancer. Listen as Jennifer shares her emotional journey from disappointment to discovery at how what seemed to be a loss ended up being her greatest gain.
The hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration tackle a difficult but common question sometimes asked by people who are diagnosed with cancer: “Am I being punished by God?” The hosts discuss the roots of the question and offer alternative viewpoints within the framework of Scripture.
Host Rev. Percy McCray talks chaplain-to-chaplain with Rev. Ken Waldrup, chaplain for the Pastoral Care Department at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Atlanta. Pastor Ken shares his journey from seminary grad to chaplain, the lessons he learned along the way and the inherent value of meeting people where they are on their journey.
In part two of this special show, Connie Singleton continues the discussion about her specific role as Spiritual Outreach Coordinator at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Newnan, Georgia. She breaks down the Our Journey of Hope strategy and curriculum, and also shares some of the success stories and testimonies of churches who have started their own cancer-care ministries.
In this special two-part show, the hosts talk with Connie Singleton, Spiritual Outreach Coordinator for the Our Journey of Hope Leadership Training program, about her unique role in equipping churches to meet the cancer care needs of their community, and how this mission has changed and empowered her to be a better servant of God.
The hosts of Health, Hope and Inspiration engage in a “Fireside Chat” about the vital support caregivers provide cancer patients, and discuss ways that support can be reciprocated for these warriors who sometimes end up carrying the heaviest load.
When Ginny Walley was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 40, she decided to get a second opinion. Little did she know her decision would lead her on an extraordinary journey of hope and radical faith.
In this show, the hosts chat with cancer survivors Walter and Linda Kotecki, who share how they approached their diagnoses in very different—and uniquely optimistic--ways.
When a routine mammogram revealed breast cancer, Rose Sajuan, a loving grandmother deeply entrenched in her Hispanic faith community was inspired by her diagnosis not to be “Bitter, but to be “Better” by lowering the wall of silence among women, especially Latinas with a message of “spiritual strength” in the midst of feeling like “her world was about to cave in!"
In this special episode, host Rev. Percy McCray shares the Our Journey of Hope story—how it was founded, its purpose and mission, and how it has positively impacted countless lives by being an asset and a resource to the faith community.
