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Our Mission
Our mission is to uplift and encourage women who have lost a child. With God
centered leadership, we will share our own experiences to help you through
your crisis and find ways to heal.
Our heart to heart sessions will guide you through surviving everyday life in
your new normal, facing uncomfortable moments, awkward conversations
and heartbreaking reminders.
Our Heart to Heart Team,
their stories and how this ministry came to be,
Rhonda Humphreys
My son was killed in a car wreck at 32 years old and it devastated my whole family. Now, years later, I am truly whole again. I will be forever grateful, for a savior who never let go of my hand.
“For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.” Isaiah 41.13
God held on to my right hand as he promised. Because of Him, I feel called to spend the rest of my days encouraging and uplifting mothers who have lost their precious child.
I often meet mothers in the depths of despair. They are tired and sometimes don’t feel like they can go on. They ask me “How did you survive?”. “Can I live through this pain?” The answer is “yes”, you can. There are others that depend on us and so we must survive. But how?
Women’s Heart to Heart ministry has answers to these questions and many more. There is life, after the death of your child. You will never forget them, nor will the ache in your heart ever go away. Although our lives have forever changed, we do not have to remain in the dark. During the stages of grief, the future can become brighter. Once again, we can find joy in the small things. Yes, it’s true, life is not the same, but there is hope.
I think of my son nearly every day. I truly miss his knee slapping laugh and his crooked smile. I know there are things you too, miss about your child. I would love to hear about them and share the healing journey with you.
When I’m not working with other women at various events, I like to cook, water ski, go 4 wheeling and sit around a fire and visit with my family.
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Kim Blakley
I started my journey in grief when I was 10 years old. At the age of 10, I witnessed my best friend’s death, while riding bikes. When I was 23 years old, I found my biological father, and when I turned 25 years old, he died by suicide.
God blessed my life with three boys and in 2021, I lost my youngest son, he was 24 years old. He died by suicide.
Among many other losses in my life, these three have been tragic, traumatizing losses that have greatly impacted my walk in this temporary life.
At the age of 10, I made a decision to be baptized for my faith in Jesus Christ to become a Christian and follow Jesus, and my submissive obedience of trust and faith has moved me from suffering to healing.
Until I get home to my real home Heaven, I will carry the aches of this life with me, but I have learned to not let them control me. God‘s word has given me his promises of peace, comfort, rest, strength, guidance, hope, and healing.
Hebrews 6:18-19 tells us “ to lay hold of the hope set before us,” and that hope in God’s promises is “an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast”. Thus, when we have hope in God, it can truly dispel our fears of falling into frustration and despair.
Kim Rankin
“I don’t know how to do this….” I grabbed another mother’s hand as she walked through the receiving line of my son, Danny’s, funeral. She had lost her son 9 months earlier, and as I looked in her eyes, desperate for some tutorial on how to put one foot in front of the other, she said to me, “Kim, this is a lousy club to be a part of.”
As a career psych and hospice RN, I was supposed to “know” how to do this…. but I was lost. The stages of grief hit me like crashing waves barely allowing me to catch my breath before the next one hit.
While I fought to find my new normal (if there is even such a thing after the loss of a child), figure out the shift in our family dynamics and desperately hold on to who and how I had come to walk in this world - I found that when I was with other women who had lost a child, I felt peace and healing. Which, overtime, also helped me find myself and my joy again.
When you lose a child, you quickly realize you’re the face of every parent’s worst nightmare. I recognized it and began isolating but worked to learn not only to find my way back but turn around and help others do the same. Yes, it is a lousy club, but the membership is strong, supportive and can show each other the way.
God waste’s no tears. Our children mattered and He is equipping each of us to turn this pain into purpose. I look forward to walking this healing journey alongside you.
TESTAMONIALS
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APRIL 2024 RETREAT
Loved that it was faith based.
Gave me Encouragement & a Fresh start. I gained confidence.
Accommodations were precious, beautiful, relaxing and spiritual.
The openness and safe place of time to share our hearts, were over whelming.
Words cannot express the healing that was achieved, deep friendships made.
Absolutely felt welcomed, pampered and loved.
Feelings of acceptance and healing.
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OCTOBER 2024 RETREAT
It was wonderful to be with mom's that had the same loss as myself. I felt so comfortable being with this group. I do have hope and skills to move forward in a healthy way.
So grateful for the healing loving experience.
Thank you for this opportunity to be with other women who have experienced this loss. I felt comfortable, great food, fellowship, beautiful place-totally felt God's presence.
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