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More About Me
My Tagline:
Chronic Illness Ministry is my passion and joy!
My Interests:
God, Books, Health, Depression, Cancer, Caregiving, Family, Marriage, Parenting, chronic illness ministry, disability ministry, caregiver ministry, writing and speaking, book promotion and marketing, editor of HopeKeepers Magazine, web designer, writer, mother, live with rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia, adoptive mom, adoption scrapbooking
Who Inspires Me:
Joni Eareckson Tada, Billy Graham and many others. AND... the people my ministry serves daily. They all live with illness, many have multiple illnesses, and yet they are so grounded in their faith and so desire to encourage others and use their illness as a tool to bring glory to God. They have built Rest Ministries for 10 years!
My organizations and affiliations:
Rest Ministries, Inc. - nonprofit serving the chronically ill - www.restministries.org ===== HopeKeepers Groups - small group program of Rest Ministries ==== HopeKeepers Magazine - www.hopekeepersmagazine.com ==== Comfort Zone Books - bookstore of Rest Ministries www.comfortzonebooks.com ==== National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week Founder - www.invisibleillness.com
==== Rest Ministries Sunroom - Social Network of Rest Ministries ==== Illness-Disability-Healthcare-Caregiver Ministry Network
My favorite spiritual activities:
Prayer, writing, reading, speaking
Who I'm praying for:
maaaaany people
What is your current spiritual mood?:
Blessed
What's your spiritual type?:
Confident Believer - I have found the right path and am fully committed to it.
About Me
Lisa Copen is the founder of Rest Ministries, a Christian organization that serves the chronically ill. She has authored eight books, including resources for over 300 HopeKeepers groups, a program of Rest Ministries. As editor of HopeKeepers. Magazine and founder of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week, Lisa seeks to encourage churches to increase an outreach to the chronically ill nearly 1 in 2 people in the U.S.
Lisa's works have been published in periodicals such as Just Between Us and Faith Writers Magazine, and books including God Allow U-Turns. Lisa is a sought-after speaker and has been a guest of radio programs Decision Today, Family Life and Joni and Friends.
Lisa loves being an entrepreneur online and has taken her knowledge of internet and book marketing to a new level with www.scrapbookmyadoption.com where she designs overlay transparencies and www.youcansellmorebooks.com where she posts daily blog tips for book marketers and is releasing multiple “50 Ways to ____” for book marketing and promotional ideas.
She resides in San Diego with her husband and son, and has lived with degenerative rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia since 1993.
Visit her web site at http://www.restministries.org and sign up for the free online ezine to receive the first 40 pages of her book “Beyond Casseroles: 505 Ways to Encourage a Chronically Ill Friend.”
My Basics
Gender: Female
Relationship Status: Married
Faiths:
Christian,
Faith Description: christian, calvary chapel, non-denominational
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1: Rest Ministries Chronic Illness Support Ministry - Video of History and Founder's Testimony |
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2: National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week Video |
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Chronic Pain - September 7, 2008 - 01:49 PM
Hi Lisa :) I just found your group on Bnet, and while I see that there is only you for a member, I am interested in joining, but I do have one concern. I have found it to be common that people with Chronic Pain Syndromes often (and understandably so) have a hard time seeing past their pain and drugs and into the lesson and/or gifts that are to be had within and around them. And so, I am hesitant to join, but I would very much like a place where we can honestly talk about both pain, what pain does psychologically, and ALSO the beauty and gifts of living beyond and/or with pain. Can you email me on my profile and tell me a little more about your group intention, and perhaps address my concern and your take on it. You sound like a truly beautiful soul. . . . Most Sincerely, Kristen