S4 E4 | FINDING FAMILY: Chris & Julie Bennett

I think there are stories we hear and wonder, “How would I survive that?” Loosing a child, surviving a natural disaster, loosing everything to a fire, and of course - cancer. Brett & I go way back with Chris and Julie to old college days. You’ll even hear Chris reference a song he remembers me singing at our large group Bible Study. We didn’t know each other, but knew of each other. Our lanes in ministry intersected here and there like kids bumping elbows between classes at school. I kept up with them through Instagram and knew they had left their church position and headed to LA for a new start, then…like a freight train hitting a stalled car on the track, Julie was hit with stage four breast cancer. She has beat it now, twice. And in the  midst of loosing their church family in Oklahoma they found themselves wading through the swamp of cancer searching for healing. What they found was a new understanding of family. A miracle in the wasteland. 

Chris and Julie now host a podcast and are writing a book called “Finding Family”. I think you’re going to be inspired and also challenged to accept what feels totally unacceptable so that a new way of living emerges. 

Cheers to all of us finding family in the most unexpected places.