Hope After Child & Sibling Loss: An Empty Chair Endeavor Podcast
What happens when the empty chair at your table becomes permanent?
Hope After Child & Sibling Loss: An Empty Chair Endeavor Podcast is a Christ-centered podcast for grieving and bereaved parents and siblings who are learning to live after the death of a child or sibling.
Here, grief is allowed to be honest. Faith is allowed to wrestle with hard questions. And hope doesn’t mean forgetting.
Host Greg Buffkin, who with his wife Cathy experienced the devastating loss of their son Ryan to suicide, shares honest conversations with bereaved parents, siblings, counselors, ministry leaders, and others who have walked through child loss and sibling loss.
Together, we explore grief, faith, questions about God, marriage, family, surviving siblings, trauma, healing, meaning, purpose, and hope after loss.
There are no easy answers here—just honest stories, compassionate voices, biblical truth, and the reminder that you are not alone.
Because hope doesn’t forget the empty chair.
Hope After Child & Sibling Loss is part of The Empty Chair Endeavor.
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You can contact us by email at: hope@emptychairendeavor.com
If you would like to share your story on an upcoming episode, please send us an email so that we can talk with you about it.
Thank you for listening!
DISCLAIMER: The views, beliefs, and opinions expressed by our guests may not necessarily be shared by this podcast or its host. We believe there is only one triune GOD: the Father, His son Jesus Christ, and His Holy Spirit. We believe that
Jesus humbled himself to become fully human, conceived by the virgin Mary through the Holy Spirit, retained his divine character and identity, lived a sinless life, executed on a Roman cross as an atonement for the sinfulness of mankind, buried, and raised back to life three days later to offer the hope of eternal life to all who would receive his free gift by grace through faith. Jesus tells us in John 14:6 "I am the way and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
* Reaching over 100 countries with messages of hope.
Hope After Child & Sibling Loss: An Empty Chair Endeavor Podcast
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Deana was awesome! This will definitely reach a lot of people that have experienced this also well. Congrats on your strength to be able to do this and talk about Travis.❤️
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