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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Diane Johnson, a 42-year uterine cancer survivor, is using her retirement to make a difference for cancer patients. She spoke with Rev. Percy McCray about the value of support for patients and caregivers and the opportunity for Cancer Care Ministry Training.
Mirna Borkman from the Talent Department talks with host Rev. Percy McCray about the importance of talent and vision in the workplace—especially for those who care for cancer patients.
Aurora Arellano stands with her husband as they fight his colorectal cancer. She shares with Rev. Percy McCray about how she sustains her faith and hope through tough days—and also good days—while giving him care.
Miguel Arellano chooses to hold onto hope and the prayer support of others to continue to fight his colorectal cancer.
What is cancer? And what are the benefits of an integrated approach to cancer treatment? Hosts Rev. Percy McCray and Wayne Shepherd discuss the basics of cancer and the kinds of treatments available.
David Ruleman, a retired Salem Christian radio station executive, turned to Cancer Treatment Centers of America when he looked for an integrative approach to treating his esophageal cancer. He talked with Health, Hope & Inspiration about his cancer journey and the role of faith in his care-plan.
Health, Hope, & Inspiration welcomes Amy Engel, a cancer survivor and clinical scheduling logistics coordinator at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She offers listeners hope from her own cancer journey and how to “dance in the rain” even in the midst of the storm of cancer.
Barry Calvert, an occupational therapist at Cancer Treatment Centers of America, visits with the host of Health, Hope & Inspiration. He shares about his role in the long-term healing of cancer patients and how faith can strengthen a patient’s care plan.
In this episode of Health, Hope & Inspiration, the hosts discuss the unique challenges a cancer journey brings to a marriage and offer seven key strategies for strengthening spousal relationships.
Rev. Percy McCray sits down with Vera Boone, a radiation-oncology physician assistant, to talk about how her work as a clinician and her faith helps to support, strengthen and encourage patients for their respective cancer journeys.
Rev. Percy McCray sits down with Peggy Hoover, a current breast cancer patient, to talk about how her cancer journey and how God is using her ministry to bring a message of hope, fun and possibilities to others battling cancer.
Dr. Kevin Tulipana, medical director and medical Vice Chief of Staff at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sits down with the host of Health, Hope & Inspiration to talk about what motivates, inspires and keeps him grounded as a physician.
The hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration chat with Tracy Hamilton, a currently treating cancer patient who talks about how her journey with Stage IV ovarian cancer has taken her from hopelessness to a newfound faith in God—due in a large part to the spiritual support she received from others in the faith community.
In this episode of Health, Hope & Inspiration, the hosts discuss ways God works through the lives of doctors and clinicians to benefit patients and the broader medical community. The conversation addresses what makes an effective physician and attempts to break down barriers and stigmas about the natural relationship between medical science and spirituality and faith.
Rev. Percy McCray sits down with Maloree Hamel, Special Care Unit Manager at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to talk about her work as an advocate for cancer patients and their families, and how her approach to ministry is inspired by her hope in God’s everlasting promises.
