Turner and Tara Simkins share their story of their young son's four-year battle with leukemia (which he survived) and how their faith was strengthened as they depended on God to sustain them through that harrowing experience. Our guests offer hope and encouragement for those faced with dire circumstances.
Turner and Tara Simkins share their story of their young son's four-year battle with leukemia (which he survived) and how their faith was strengthened as they depended on God to sustain them through that harrowing experience. Our guests offer hope and encouragement for those faced with dire circumstances.
Bearing the burden of your child's illness
What to do when we feel powerless as parents
How to support each other during and after crises
Turner Simkins is President of Blue Beech, LLC, a real estate development and marketing consulting firm, and Opportunity Zone Development Director with Peachtree Investment Solutions, LLC, an alternative real estate investment firm based in Atlanta. He is also the founder and president of Horse Creek Trust, a non-profit development LLC established to facilitate the adaptive reuse of historic properties in Graniteville, South Carolina. He and his wife, Tara, have three sons – one of whom, Brennan, survived childhood leukemia. Turner authored a book titled , a memoir chronicling his family’s life-changing faith journey through Brennan’s cancer. Learn more about Turner at his firm’s website.
Tara Simkins is a former lawyer who left her successful 20-year legal career to pursue a new calling – that of a life coach, writer, and the co-founder of Press On, an organization dedicated to finding feasible and groundbreaking alternative therapies for childhood cancers, and to invest money into research for curing childhood cancer. She and her husband, Turner, have three sons – one of whom, Brennan, survived childhood leukemia. Learn more about Tara at her website, tarasimkins.com.