Helpful Booklet for Explaining Illness to Children

We’ve recently come across a great little booklet you can print out and staple together to have a tool that is interesting to your kiddo to explain multiple sclerosis. We know that the people who have MS are just a percentage of our visitors here, but it may provide some helpful ideas to even create [...]

Joni and Friends Family Retreats Amazing Experience for Those Impacted with Disabilities

Rest Ministries is an affiliate ministry of Joni and Friends who features annual Joni and Friends Family camps and retreats. This is an amazing ministry that we encourage you to check out!

By Daniel J. Vance
In August, my family and I will spend five days at a Joni and Friends Family Retreat in the northern part [...]

Soles4Souls and Lemons to Aid Launch Lemon Drop Program for Children

If you are looking for a fun summer project for kids or grandkids, this may be something to get them involved with! Kids across the country selling lemonade and collecting shoes to help others
Soles4Souls, the international shoe charity (www.giveshoes.org), and Lemons to Aid, a movement encouraging kids to give to others by getting involved in [...]

Movie Being Made About Inspirational Surfer Attacked By Shark

We watched with horror in 2003 as newscasters explained that a 13-year-old young woman who was already a surfer champion was attacked by a shark. Now, year later, Bethany Hamilton’s story is being filmed in Hawaii, based on her autobiography she wrote at 19 years old, “Soul Surfer.”
This young gal is a Christian and not [...]

New Magazine Launches For Kids with Chronic Illness

I always love hearing about new resources for children who live with chronic illness. And so I’m happy to announce that there is a new magazine that was recently launched in March of 2010 for children with chronic illness called “Good Days, Bad Days.”
The readers are children who live with any type of chronic [...]

Teen Starts “Wear iT Wednesday” to Spread Faith Message

We thought this was a cool idea and it’s always encouraging to see youth doing something for Christ. Although this isn’t specific to illness, we thought you may want to pass it along to your own kids, grandkids, youth pastors, etc. Maybe we should start a day where we wear a button or something to [...]

Resource Guide of 40 Pages for Young Adults

This web site, “Breakout” leads you to online reading material called “Breakout” The Complete Lifestyle Guide for Young People with Arthritis.
What a wonderful website with an uplifting and positive message! You can sit in the comfort of your own home and read forty pages of useful information, without having to worry about going to [...]

What I’d Like to Tell My Pastor About Living with Illness

Living with chronic illness is lonely. Everyone around us seems to be enjoying health, happiness and the ability to pursue their dreams. But we are lonely, scared, and disappointed. We are living with an illness that we have not been able to pray away, cry away, or confess away and so we turn [...]

Rest Ministries On TV This Weekend

Over one year ago I had a film crew who came to my home to tape a segment for a television show. It was exciting, but before the airing date, the program was discontinued.
Well, the show has been picked up by a tv show called “Heroes Among Us” and the producer who taped my segment [...]

30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know

We’ve all seen the list “20 things about me” “50 thing about me you didn’t know…” They can actually be interesting if you want to get to know the person better! We’ll we’ve got one I haven’t seen anywhere yet, “30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know.”
Just copy and paste it below [...]