While We're Waiting® - Hope After Child Loss | Podcast Guru

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This is a podcast FOR bereaved parents BY bereaved parents. Join your host, Jill Sullivan, as she talks with parents who have lost children of all ages to all types of circumstances. This is a podcast of stories ... stories of devastating loss and grief and heartbreak and struggle ... and stories of hope and healing and faith, and yes, even joy. Underlying every conversation will be the hope we have in Jesus Christ, which makes it possible to not just survive the loss of a child, but to live well while we're waiting to see them again in Heaven one day. Visit our website at www.WhileWereWaiting.org for more information about our nonprofit ministry to bereaved parents.

Recent Episodes

333 | Old to New Creations (Part One) with Jessica Mitchell

What does it look like to trust God when you've prayed for a miracle, but the answer isn't what you hoped for? Jessica Mitchell was nearly 37 weeks pregnant when she learned that her daughter, Lucy Grace, had died. Just three years earlier, her family had experienced the loss of her infant niece, Madison Joy, at only 35 days old. In this first half of our conversation, Jessica shares the stories of both girls, the remarkable ways their families were supported by their communities, and a defin...

42 MIN

332 | Keep Going, Really! (Part Two) with Markie Ribera

How do you keep going when the heaviness of grief is such a big part of every day life? How do you embrace new blessings while continuing to mourn all that you've lost? In this second half of my conversation with Markie Ribera, we explore what it means to keep going after unimaginable loss ... not by moving past our grief, but by learning to carry it alongside the joy and hope we have in Christ. After losing their four young children and Markie's mother in a devastating house fire in February...

38 MIN

331 | Keep Going, Really! (Part One) with Markie Ribera

How do you keep going when your whole world has been turned upside down? When the life you knew is gone, and the future you imagined looks nothing like you expected? In February of 2022, Markie Ribera and her husband, Carlos, lost their four young children - Kathryn, Kaleb, Kristian, and Kasper - along with Markie's mother in a devastating house fire. In a single night, they lost not only the people they loved most, but also their home and nearly everything that connected them to the life the...

38 MIN

330 | Grief's Deception (Part Two) with Dennis and Debbie Jordan

How do we choose to hold on to God's truth when grief makes it so easy to doubt? In the second half of my conversation with Dennis and Debbie Jordan, we continue exploring Debbie's book, Grief's Deception: Overcoming the 12 Lies Whispered to a Broken Heart. Dennis and Debbie lost their six-year-old son Ryan to leukemia in 1985, and their nearly 41-year journey has given them a unique perspective on grief, faith, and God's sustaining grace. (If you missed the first episode in this series...

45 MIN

329 | Grief's Deception (Part One) with Dennis and Debbie Jordan

What happens when the lies grief whispers begin to feel more believable than the truth of God's Word? Dennis and Debbie Jordan know that struggle well. In 1985, their six-year-old son Ryan went to Heaven after a three-and-a-half-year battle with leukemia. In the nearly 41 years since, they've experienced the depths of grief, wrestled with difficult questions, and discovered the faithfulness of God in ways they never could have imagined. Debbie is the author of Grief's Deception: Overcoming th...

47 MIN