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Accessible Hope for Everyone!

Compassionately serving you with a wealth of accessible, easy-to-use, faith-based educational resources and publications for all those affected by chronic illness, mental illness, chronic pain, and disability. Hope starts here—you’re an indispensable, irreplaceable piece of the puzzle!

CHRONIC ILLNESS

As we journey through diagnoses and treatment plans, loss and isolation, sadness and grief, we can also discover the gifts of laughter, joy, and hope along the way. [Chronic Pain • Shame in Illness]

CHRONIC ILLNESS

CAREGIVERS

A caregiver’s role can be rewarding and exhausting, difficult and joy-filled, meaningful and frustrating, isolating and inspiring—discovering God’s joy as you care for your loved ones.

CAREGIVING

MENTAL ILLNESS

Stigma, isolation, loneliness, and shame often follow a diagnosis of mental illness. With God, mental illness has no stigma. You are His precious child, deeply loved and fully accepted. [Anxiety • Depression]

MENTAL ILLNESS

MARRIAGE

Navigating marriage with chronic illness can be dark and lonely. It can also be an opportunity to learn patience, forgiveness, tenderness, humility, and sacrifice—gifts to savor and celebrate.

MARRIAGE

Is chronic illness a member of your family?

PARENTING

When chronic illness and pain are part of the family, we need more strength, resolve, perseverance, and courage than we ever imagined as we learn to live and parent five minutes at a time. [Children • Teens]

PARENTING

SUICIDE PREVENTION

Hold Onto Possibility Everyday • Are you thinking about ending your life? Reach out for support. Are you concerned about a friend or loved one ending their life? Ask. Listen. Love. Pray. [Trauma Soul Care]

SUICIDE PREVENTION

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Infusions of Hope

Marriage, illness, and never wanting to let go.

To Love Like He Does

“She held his hand like she never wanted to let him go,” my husband told me quietly one evening. It was an unusual statement from him and it caused me to think and to pray. “Lord, is that what my husband wants – to know he is so deeply loved that I never want to let him go?”

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