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Chris Fabry Live
August 16, 2023
Losing Connor
Ron Deal is our correspondent to all things blended. That’s because he writes and speaks about blended family issues. But Wednesday on the program, you’ll hear something different. For the first time, Ron will be joined by his wife, Nan, and they’re going to talk about losing Connor. How do you live and love after the devastating loss of a child? Don’t miss Chris Fabry Live.
IN THIS EPISODE
Ron and Nan Deal
Ron Deal is director of FamilyLife Blended, a division of FamilyLife. He is a family therapist and conference speaker specializing in marriage enrichment and stepfamily education.
Nan Deal has a degree in Early Childhood Education and is a teacher with over 25 years’ experience in public and private schools. She is a leader with a local Re-Generation ministry and together she and Ron lead a While We're Waiting support group for parents who have lost a child. Nan speaks with Ron in the Empowered to Love Marriage Seminar in which they share the principles that have helped transform their relationship from pride, great grief, and alcohol abuse. They know firsthand what it means to say that the old has passed away and the new has come.
Ron and Nan have been married since 1986 and have three boys. Their middle son Connor died unexpectedly in February 2009 at the age of 12. In his memory, the Deals built a therapeutic art center for the Touch a Life Foundation, a non-profit that rescues and rehabilitates children in Ghana, West Africa, from trafficking and child exploitation.
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Chris Fabry
Chris Fabry is the host of Chris Fabry Live, one hour of spiritual encouragement from his backyard radio fence. The program challenges listeners to think biblically about their spiritual journeys. Chris is also the author of the Christy Award-winning novel Dogwood, June Bug, ECPA Christian Book Award-winner (Fiction) Almost Heaven, Not in the Heart and Borders of the Heart. He and his family live near Tucson, Ariz.
Chris Fabry Live
Chris Fabry Live is designed to build up the spiritual immune system of the Christian men and woman. As you walk through the journey of faith called the Christian life, you meet new people, learn new things, laugh, cry and, most importantly, grow in your understanding of God.