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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Two-time breast cancer patient Elaine Barber sits down with the hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration to talk about her cancer journey and how, through a seeming crisis, she learned to trust God’s perfect will and plan for her life, and no matter what happens in our lives, we can go through it with Him.
The hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration chat with hospital volunteer Loretta Brunetti, who talks about how her involvement in the cancer community was inspired by her desire to find a significant way to help family members who were battling the disease, and how her unique brand of ministry was birthed as a result of that desire.
In this episode of Health, Hope & Inspiration, the hosts talk about a challenging question commonly asked by people who are battling cancer: Does sin cause cancer? Rev. Percy McCray explores the Scripture to answer this question, and challenges listeners to engage the faith community on this important conversation.
Rev. Percy McCray sits down with Ann Hill, a volunteer at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to talk about her work supporting cancer patients and how her unique approach to ministry is inspired from the joy of teaching others and her own experience battling cancer.
Afrika Shaw sits down with the hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration to talk about her ongoing journey battling breast cancer and how, through prayer, she has learned to trust God’s perfect will and plan for her life, while reassuring others that no matter what happens, God always keeps His promises.
The hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration chat with cancer patient Kevin Barnes, whose unique journey led him to the realization that it is possible to live with cancer and have stronger faith at the same time.
In this episode of Health, Hope & Inspiration, the hosts talk about cancer care ministry and what it means to be “salt and light” to cancer patients and their loved ones in positive and impactful ways. They also discuss the parallels between Jesus’ ministry and those who believe they are called to cancer care ministry.
Kristianne Stewart chats with the hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration about the work her ministry, Compassion That Compels, is currently doing across the United States to provide hope and emotional support to women battling cancer. She also shares her perspective about why it’s important to support cancer patients in the faith community, and offers ways to help those with cancer feel less alone and more connected.
Rev. Percy McCray sits down with Pastor Hector Nunez, a former cancer patient whose battle with stage-four oral cancer helped him to clearly define how to utilize his faith in order to rely on God in his greatest hour of need.
A former cancer patient turned chaplain, Rev. Tammy James talks with the hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration about how her unexpected cancer journey as not only a patient, but a caregiver, led her to become a chaplain at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. She also shares her perspectives about the roles that faith, spirituality, medicine and science play in an individual’s cancer journey and in the lives of their loved ones.
The hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration chat with George and Jeanie Stewart, cancer care ministers through the Our Journey of Hope Cancer Care Leadership Training program, to talk about their call to ministry after an up-and-close experience with colon cancer became the catalyst for God to use them to minister hope to others going through similar circumstances.
In this episode of Health, Hope & Inspiration, the hosts discuss the topic of death and how to effectively minister to a dying patient and their loved ones. They also address stages of preparation and sharing ways to help family and friends redeem the time with their loved one in a dignified, God-honoring manner.
Rev. Percy McCray sits down with Rev. Larry Foster, a chaplain at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Chicago, Illinois, to talk about his philosophy of spiritual care to the patients he serves, his formula for self-care, and how his approach to ministry has been shaped by every person he’s encountered.
Cancer patient Tom Sellars shares with the hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration an important lesson about not allowing a victim's mentality to dictate how he saw and how he responded to his cancer journey.
The hosts of Health, Hope & Inspiration chat with Fely Kuhler, Patient Experience Coordinator at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Chicago, Illinois, to talk about her call to pastoral care and how God used her unique brand of ministry to bring cancer patients and their families and caregivers hope.
