Hope Endures for Those with Illness

Karen Whiting, a freelance writer and author of ten nonfiction books, loves to let creativity splash onto the page as she writes.

She has family that lives with chronic pain (her son and daughter) and we're so excited to talk with her!

Whether offering creative solutions for busy women or designing crafts for tweens, her books reflect how imagination and writing intersect.

Whiting’s books include the popular tween series God’s Girls (inspirational craft books for tween girls) and Secrets of Success for Women: Time. Her more than 400 articles and devotions have been published in over four-dozen magazines including Brio magazine, Focus on the Family, Today’s Christian Women, Reminisce, and Devo-Zine.

She has been a writer of children’s church programs for Charisma Life, parenting articles for Focus on Your Child, and family activities for Take Out: Family Faith on the Go.

Karen is a speaker for women’s groups, retreats, schools, and mother-daughter events. She has been married over thirty years and grew a functional family of five children and believes others can too! She has a heart for encouraging families to connect, serve, and treasure one another.

Unfortunately our guest didn't call in, but we have a 15 minute program where Lisa shares about how the digital HopeKeepers Magazine works and the Christians with Illness Blog Carnival.

Join host List Copen as she interviews amazing guests each Tuesday who will offer you both practical tips as well as spiritual hope in God while you learn to live your best life despite chronic illness.

Food. Maybe it's just a normal part of your life, or maybe it is something that gives you great frustration. Maybe with the medications you take you can't seem to keep it down, or perhaps because of a chronic illness you can hardly eat anything that is at your local grocery store. Or... do you keep stacking on the pounds no matter what you eat?

We're going to ask Joanna about all of this and more! Call in with your own questions at 718-506-1604 and win a copy of her cookbook that is out in just a couple of weeks!

Joanna Faillace is joining us, host of Super-Naturally Healthy television show! Joanna is a Certified Biblical Health Coach and she teaches simple and creative ways to cook with organic ingredients and simple steps on how to keep the immune system stable. You can find some recipes on her web site!

She is also the founder Neighbors In Need Ministries, that began in 1998. They have served the needy in the community of Charlottesville, Virginia and the surrounding area by providing food, emergency supplies and a prayer line. She co-hosts the Christ-centered talk show Living in Him! with her husband Jim, which is televised weekly throughout Central Virginia on CPA-TV, Channel 13 on Comcast Cable.

Joanna is the author of Super-Naturally Healthy! Cookbooks, a series in progress that focuses on using Biblical principles combined with unique recipes which inspire a healthy diet consisting of the whole, organic foods God created. This cookbook series also brings a fresh and healthy alternative to the adverse effects of the typical “American diet,” consisting of unhealthy levels of fat, sodium, cholesterol and artificial preservatives, sweeteners, dyes, and dangerous chemicals.

Joanna is anticipating launching a signature line of organic foods, culinary accessories, and apparel, along with the vision to open a nationwide chain of Super-Naturally Healthy! Family Eateries in the future.

If you live with an illness it's no secret your pocketbook is impacted. And it can be frustrating to hear all the financial "tips" such as "stop buying $3 coffees" when you are just struggling to figure out how to afford your medications.

Meet Ellie Kay. We are so excited to have her and thank her for taking the time to talk to our audience, because right now she is in high demand as a "American's Family Financial Expert." In fact, you may have seen her being interviewed on programs and for publications such as The New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, CNN, Fox, NPR, Redbook, Women's Day, Family Circle, Reader's Digest, and Parenting Magazine.

This Christian woman is an author of a dozen books, a popular speaker, corporate educator and spokesperson, and mother of seven. (Some of us may be most impressed that she is the mother of seven and has time to think straight about anything - especially something financial!)

Within two and a half years, Ellie Kay went from being a new wife and stepmom to two children with $40,000 in consumer debt to being completely debt free-all on one military income! So she knows what she is talking about! Within 15 years and while adding five more children to the family, Ellie and her husband were able to pay cash for their cars, buy and furnish two five-bedroom homes (one after selling the other), take wonderful vacations, dress fashionably, build a nest egg for retirement, send the kids to college loan-free, and give away more than $100,000 to nonprofit organizations around the world.

living-rich-for-lessEllie teaches people sound money habits that are do-able and will stretch their dollars. Her latest title, Living Rich for Less (Waterbook/Random House, January 2009), sets forth her 10/10/80T Rule--give away 10 percent of your income, save 10 percent, and spend the last 80 percent wisely!

In her free time, this self-professed “crazy woman” likes to have adventures. She says, “I make sure these are safe and supervised by licen

On September 16, 2002 at age 47, Pamela Christian went to play tennis. She says, “I arrived feeling what seemed to be minor indigestion, which I'd felt for a couple mornings in a row and I just chalked it up to the cantaloupe I'd been eating.” But within minutes she couldn’t breath and 911 was called. They administered ADVANCED life support because what they witnessed was her suffering the onset of a sudden cardiac arrest.

A speaker and author, Pamela began The Bless Your Heart awareness campaign. She desires it to be your story as well as hers. Her web site www.blessyourheartcampaign.com states “Ours in that as you learn the heart facts, you share what you know with others. Together we're helping women everywhere become aware and very potentially saving lives! Here's where we can interact, share stories, recipes and more!”

A popular speaker and writer before, she's gone on to host both radio and television and lives her life with greater intensity than ever (and she was pretty intense before)! In 2003 she hosted The Pamela Christian radio show, a live 2-hour weekly call-in program. In 2005 she was hired by Salem Communications to host Life Line on KFAX in San Francisco, a 2 hour drive-time daily call-in talk show. Since January of 2006, in addition to traveling for speaking engagements, she's been published in a variety of venues, has created a television program she is working on and is pursuing various opportunities to host and guest host both radio and television. She was a featured guest on Focus on the Family March 2008. Whether it's media or personal speaking engagements what Pam wants to do most is make a difference in the lives of others.

Can one really be an effective parent when you have a chronic illness? yes! Lisa talks about being a mom with rheumatoid arthritis and invites you to call in with your own experiences and suggestions too.

Have you ever wondered if you were more extroverted how your medical care may be different? Or do you talk too much at your doctor's appointment about the emotions of living with illness, leaving little time for your physician to answer your questions about your physical health and illness symptoms?

Georgia Shaffer is a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania and a certified life coach. For over 15 years, she has enhanced people's lives by teaching how to identify: "What needs to grow? What needs to go?" She is also is on the teaching staff of the Christian Leaders, Authors & Speakers Seminar (CLASS) and Personality Plus. She has great insight into why we do what we do, which she has shared in her books and will be sharing with us!

Have you ever felt like your son or daughter is taking advantage of your generosity and yet you don't know how to make them less dependent on you? When you live with the guilt of having an illness and not giving them the "perfect" life, it's easy to become tangled up in the emotions of not knowing when and how to "do" tough love. You aren't alone! Writing from firsthand experience, Allison Bottke identifies the lies that kept her, and ultimately her adult son in bondage-and how she overcame them. Author of "Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children" shares her personal story and will encourage you!

Join Lisa and some special volunteers from Rest Ministries for a time of encouragement.