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Every Family Has a Story

Every family has a story. As a facility closed to the general public, we’ve created a platform to share our families’ incredible journeys through video and written word. Below you will find these stories, each with a unique perspective how health issues have affected their family and how they’ve found hope. Family Features blends words, photos and videos to share the special moments we experience at the Center every day.

Annika and Emma

Teens Emma and Annika met in 2014 at Starlight Shores Camp. Annika was in cancer treatment, and Emma was a volunteer. [...]

Cooper’s Story

Hear how the Children's Healing Center has benefitted Cooper and his family. [...]

The Alflen Family

Hear how the Children’s Healing Center has benefitted the Alflen family. [...]

The Babiak Family

Hear how the Children's Healing Center has helped the Babiak family. [...]

The Bradley Family

When Colin Bradley was diagnosed with leukemia at age age 11, he and his parents were immediately thrust into an inexplicable world they never saw [...]

The Brann Family

Jessica and Aaron “A.J.” Brann know what it is to suffer and grieve. But thanks in part to the Children’s Healing Center, joy and hope [...]

The Burgers Family

That little girl there with a smile as big as a butterfly’s wings? That’s Becca Burgers. But not Becca Burgers the patient. Not Becca Burgers [...]

The Choi Family

Pssst! The “Children’s Healing Center” now has an unofficial alias! It’s “The Clean House.” Pass it on. That’s the word from 3-year-old twins Taylor and [...]

The Debbaudt Family

Hear how the Children’s Healing Center has benefitted the Debbaudt family. [...]

The DeYoung Family

Hear how the Children’s Healing Center has benefitted the DeYoung family. [...]

The Jackson Family

The Jackson family calls it “Mistha’s Journey.” And what a journey it’s been – a bittersweet trek that began when this little tyke was just [...]

The Lawrence Family

They never saw it coming. Not the family. Not the doctors. No one—Connie and David Lawrence realize now—but God in heaven. “Hannah was the first [...]

The Lerg Family

To Seth and Stephanie Lerg, it seems at times like only yesterday that they were honeymooning on Hilton Head Island, hardly a care in the [...]

The Loding Family

Hear how the Children’s Healing Center has benefitted the Loding family. [...]

The Middleton Family

Hear how the Children’s Healing Center has benefitted the Middleton family. [...]

The Pflug Family

Hear how the Children’s Healing Center has benefitted the Pflug family. [...]

The Rackes Family

Hear how the Children’s Healing Center has benefitted the Rackes family. [...]

The Savickas Family

Hear how the Children’s Healing Center has benefitted the Savickas family. [...]

The Schiefla Family

Hear how the Children’s Healing Center has benefitted the Schiefla family. [...]

The Tanis Family

In the first few excruciating moments that followed their daughter Lily’s diagnosis, Matt and Allison Tanis’ only question was, “Can she be cured?” But later [...]

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