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Breast Cancer - Faith Wears Pink

Breast Cancer - Faith Wears Pink

Christine Runge Weiss, Founder of Faith Wears Pink, an online support platform for women battling breast cancer, shares how she learned she had breast cancer at the age of forty-four. Her diagnosis followed wave after wave of personal crises. In this conversation with Sharon Betters, herself a breast cancer survivor, Christine offers hope and practical help to breast cancer warriors. One evening she realized she was helping over twenty women with their questions, fears, and the unknowns of their journeys. She decided they all needed a way to talk to each other so she started a “Breast Friends” Facebook page. She eventually changed the name to Faith Wears Pink and as of today over 1000 women have connected through this platform. Faith Wears Pink not only connects breast cancer warriors but also gives gifts to women read more…

Faith, Illness, Warrior WomanMARKINC MinistriesOctober 21, 20248th 30, 2024Comment

Reclaiming Greatness Over Addiction

Reclaiming Greatness Over Addiction

Baseball great Darryl Strawberry readily acknowledges that people often think two things when they hear his name: Darryl was a great ball player, and Darryl lost it all to drugs. In this interview, Darryl and his wife Tracy share their story of drug addiction and how they found a pathway to restoration and wholeness. Their transparent responses to hard questions will challenge listeners to examine their own lives.

Warrior Woman, Addiction, Special Event SpeakersMARKINC MinistriesMay 4, 2024Library Block, popularComment

A Widow's Journey

A Widow's Journey

“So who am I now that there’s only one place at the table….one pillow with a head dent, one towel damp after a shower? There’s only one toothbrush in the holder. The seat is never left up anymore. I can still write…

Grief, Warrior WomanMARKINC MinistriesApril 17, 20248th 30, 2024Comment

Hope In The Midst Of Grief

Hope In The Midst Of Grief

In this wide-ranging interview, two mothers who have experienced the grief of losing their children transparently answers questions from how to push the question “why” through the grid of God’s love and sovereignty, to how to protect marriages assaulted by grief. Nancy’s loss of two children uniquely qualifies her to offer help and hope in sorrow’s darkest night.

Grief, Warrior WomanMARKINC MinistriesApril 8, 20248th 30, 2024Comment

Faith That Doesn't Quit

Faith That Doesn't Quit

Andrea Herzer, a woman well acquainted with long term debilitating health issues, having spent the last twenty years with multiple illnesses, including regional pain syndrome and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, joins read more…

Warrior Woman, FaithMARKINC MinistriesJanuary 8, 20242020, 7th 30Comment

Can You Just Sit With Me?

Can You Just Sit With Me?

Days, months, and years after the loss of her sister, Natasha Smith tried to hide the grief she carried. But the pandemic took away her ability to hide her sorrow and her five-year-old’s response to her unexpected tears gave her permission to grieve – not in a room by herself but with her https://markinc.org/help-and-hope/can-you-just-sit-with-me-with-natasha-smithread more…

Emotions, Warrior Woman, GriefMARKINC MinistriesNovember 16, 20232020, 7th 30Comment

Now I Lay Me Down to Fight - Breast Cancer

Now I Lay Me Down to Fight - Breast Cancer

When Clarissa Moll’s young husband, Rob, died unexpectedly, she soon realized she was at a crossroads. Would she walk toward hope or slide into hopelessness? In this conversation with Sharon Betters, Clarissa answers such questions as:

Is there any way to prepare for such a tragedy? Are there stages for grief? What kind of work can grief do in our hearts that grows the fruit of the spirit? How is it helpful to “welcome” an emotion like fear – how does dissecting an emotion help us keep those emotions in check – or should we even try to keep them in check? What about regrets? Either for our own behavior or read more…

Warrior Woman, IllnessMARKINC MinistriesNovember 13, 20232020, 7th 30Comment

Hidden Wounds and Scars of Chronic Illness – Is There Hope?

Hidden Wounds and Scars of Chronic Illness – Is There Hope?

Roasann has experienced disappointment, pain, and loss – but her scars and wounds are not obvious – very much like many of you. Today Rosann lives with the kinds of chronic illness that many of you contend with – often alone in your struggles because they are not visible wounds or scars. In this conversation with Sharon Betters, Rosann offers encouragement to fellow travelers, that though the pathway is often hard and you feel hopeless and helpless, there is a light in the darkness and purpose in the pain.

Illness, Warrior WomanMARKINC MinistriesOctober 24, 20232020, 7th 30Comment

Flourishing in an Anti-Aging Culture

Flourishing in an Anti-Aging Culture

There are many blessings that come with age: retirement, grandchildren, travel, and life experience. Today’s culture, however, marginalizes old age, often portraying it as burdensome and hopeless. Many older women read more…

Later Years of Life, Warrior WomanMARKINC MinistriesAugust 30, 20232020, 7th 30Comment

Abortion Survivor

Abortion Survivor

In this poignant conversation Claire describes how her birth mother told her about the abortion, Claire’s response to the news, and how she is watching the Lord bring beauty from ashes as she shares her story across the country as a means of showing a real life baby is the victim of abortion.

Warrior Woman, EmotionsMARKINC MinistriesSeptember 6, 20192019, 4th 30Comment

An Unexpected Twist in Life

An Unexpected Twist in Life

When Erin Kauffman was 29 years old, the unthinkable happened.—a driver fell asleep at the wheel and at sixty miles per hour slammed head first into Erin’s car. In this conversation, Erin describes the devastation of realizing the bottom half of her body was crushed, the long rehab, and how this accident changed the direction of her life. Though Erin continues to struggle with long term pain and time consuming medical care, she offers hope to anyone in similar circumstances.

Warrior Woman, GriefMARKINC MinistriesMay 2, 20192019, 3rd 30Comment

When Life Unravels and It’s Good

When Life Unravels and It’s Good

Rachel’s Craddock’s mother died after a long battle with breast cancer. Rachel was fourteen years old. In this interview, Rachel answers some hard questions not just about her mother’s death but also her own decision to have a double radical mastectomy after she learned she had a high chance of getting the same kind of cancer as her mother.

Grief, Warrior Woman, IllnessMARKINC MinistriesApril 5, 20193rd 30, 2019Comment

Cancer & Grief: A Conversation with Elizabeth Groves

Cancer & Grief: A Conversation with Elizabeth Groves

Melanoma, the word strikes fear into the hearer, especially when it is a diagnosis for a loved one. Al Groves and his wife, Libbie, heard these words and knew life would never be the same. In this conversation with Sharon Betters, Libbie shares the journey that her family experienced in the year after her husband Al’s diagnosis of terminal cancer. She offers her family’s story as a means of coming alongside of others who are struggling with cancer, God and grief.

Grief, Warrior Woman, Illness, RelationshipsMARKINC MinistriesOctober 22, 20182018, 3rd 30Comment

Hope for the Service Marriage

Hope for the Service Marriage

Corie Weathers shares her own marriage struggles as a the wife of a military chaplain in this conversation. She describes intimate, sacred moments where her understanding of how she realized that when she said goodbye to her husband when he was deployed to Afghanistan, she was actually saying goodbye to life as she knew it. Corie doesn’t leave listeners without hope or a path forward.

Warrior Woman, Relationships, MilitaryMARKINC MinistriesSeptember 6, 20182018, 3rd 30Comment

The Amish Schoolhouse Shooting – A Light in the Darkness: A Conversation with Marie Monville

The Amish Schoolhouse Shooting – A Light in the Darkness: A Conversation with Marie Monville

On October 2, 2006, Marie Monville’s husband entered an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and shot ten young girls, killing five of them, before turning the gun on himself. How does a person find hope in such darkness? How does the wife of the man who perpetrated such horror rebuild her life and the lives of her children? How could she ever forgive her husband?

Grief, Warrior WomanMARKINC MinistriesMay 18, 20183rd 30, 2018Comment

Standing with Hope: Through It All

Standing with Hope: Through It All

How do you find purpose when you are in excruciating pain 24/7, survived 78 surgeries and most likely face more? Add to that your status as a double amputee. In this interview, Gracie Rosenberger, who was 17 when she was in an almost fatal car accident, shares what life and marriage is like with such challenges. Gracie’s story reveals a woman of strength and determination in the face of impossible obstacles.

Warrior Woman, Special Needs, Grief, IllnessMARKINC MinistriesNovember 29, 20172017, gracie, 2nd 30Comment

Finding Freedom In The Rough Pathways Of Life

Finding Freedom In The Rough Pathways Of Life

Renee Dixon compares her life as a widow, single mom, and small business owner with mounting bills to climbing a hard, rocky pathway filled with gnarled roots. She describes how she learned to grasp those roots as a means to pull herself along the hard road of life that sometimes felt impossible to travel. Those gnarled roots along the pathway helped shape Renee into a woman whose own determination, endurance and grit encourages the very people she is called to serve.

Parenting, Special Needs, Warrior WomanMARKINC MinistriesOctober 6, 20172017, 2nd 30Comment

Raising Victoria – A Daughter With Down Syndrome And Life Threatening Cancer

Raising Victoria – A Daughter With Down Syndrome And Life Threatening Cancer

Within hours after Victoria’s birth, Karen and her husband learned that their third daughter had Down Syndrome. Though initially frightened by this news, Karen and her family’s love for Victoria grew deeper as they recognized the awesome privilege of raising such a precious daughter.

Special Needs, Warrior Woman, Parenting, IllnessMARKINC MinistriesMarch 17, 20172017, popular, 2nd 30Comment

Multiple Sclerosis: When M.S. is Your Constant Companion

Multiple Sclerosis: When M.S. is Your Constant Companion

In this interview, you’ll hear Sherry describe what it was like to hear the diagnosis of M.S. and how it changed her life. Listeners with a similar diagnosis will be encouraged by the way Sherry has confronted this disease and learned how to continue to invest her life in the lives of others, even though she is sometimes physically limited. This conversation will also help “healthy” people learn how they can come alongside of someone whose constant companion is M.S.

Warrior Woman, IllnessMARKINC MinistriesFebruary 8, 20172017, 2nd 30 Comments

Ovarian Cancer Fighter: The Constant Battle

Ovarian Cancer Fighter: The Constant Battle

In 2009, Debbie Kahler was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer, a disease that strikes fear in the hearts of anyone familiar with its deadly prognosis. Most people would respond with despair to such tragic losses, tempted to give in to the fear of losing their own battles. Yet that is not the message of Debbie’s journey.

Warrior Woman, IllnessMARKINC MinistriesJanuary 6, 20172017, popular, 2nd 30Comment