Forty six ladies attended the annual Women’s Fall Retreat over the weekend of October 20-22, 2023, with featured speaker, Tammy Cranston.

Tammy Cranston served as a hospice bereavement volunteer for five years offering support and services to patients and families. She is devoted to helping others through some of life’s most difficult challenges. She previously wrote, “Why Not Me?” published by Teach Services, Inc., and recently published her first children’s story. “Rooted: A Seedling’s Journey” is a story about the value of generational relationships and finding one’s purpose. It is a tale of moral growth, maturity, and perseverance in facing life’s most difficult trials. She holds an associate degree in mass communication and is currently completing her bachelor’s degree in this field. She is passionate about her faith and family. She loves to plan, implement, and preserve memories through photography, videography, and the written word.

Together, she and her husband, parent five children and their spouses, and grandparent twelve grandchildren living in four different states. After years in Illinois, they now reside in Pensacola Beach, Florida.

Attendees were all blessed by her presentations following the theme- Why Not Me!

Topics over the weekend included:

Friday Evening: TAMMY’S TESTIMONY

Sabbath Morning: AT OUR DISPOSAL (Compassion)

Sabbath Afternoon: GOD’S GRIP (Confidence)

Sabbath Evening: GET OUT OF THE SALTSHAKER (Courage)

Sunday Morning: THE FINAL CHAPTER (Certainty)

Tammy is truly blessed and had courage to share her testimony, even with the recent loss of her 39 year old son, Travis Kern, a young  father of 3 young  boys – Turner, Thalon and Thatcher. He passed away this year on June 26 at his home due to uncontrolled diabetes.

God sustained her as she shared the testimony of her life including dealing and coping with loss as her passion is to be a support system for hurting people and to empower others to do the same.

May God continue to bless her as she shares her story and shows others how to hold on in faith and trust God through all or our circumstance as we continually focus on our destination- Heaven. Amen and Amen.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end” Jeremiah 29:11

 

Patricia Antoine-Norton, Women’s Ministries Coordinator