S11E4: Illness of a parent (Matt and Alison Keddilty)

In today’s episode we speak to Matt and Alison Keddilty. Matt and Alison are a couple on mission in the North East of England. They love ministering to, and with, families, including their own six children. As an interacted couple, Matt loves ultra running and Alison loves her wheelchair. They chose the chapter from the A-Z of Parenting for Faith book on illness to share some of their story and how to navigate parenting for faith through the illness of a parent. Please be aware, this is an incredibly powerful episode that contains themes of illness, death and dying so you may choose to listen to it without children around or might decide it’s not helpful for you to listen to at all at the moment. It is also a longer than normal episode to enable them to share sensitively and more in depth about this topic. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.-Joshua 24:15b Links: Book a group or church onto the original Parenting for Faith couse, which starts in March. https://www.brfonline.org.uk/collections/parenting-for-faith-courses/products/the-original-parenting-for-faith-zoom-course-2025 The Forge Online - https://www.brfonline.org.uk/collections/parenting-for-faith-events/products/the-forge-gathering-online-2025 The Forge in-person - https://www.brfonline.org.uk/collections/parenting-for-faith-events/products/the-forge-gathering-in-person-2025 Hear the original PFF podcast episodes that the Illness chapter are based on: What if I have cancer? https://soundcloud.com/parentingforfaith-brf/s5-ep7-what-if-i-have-cancer and Where is God when life is tough? https://soundcloud.com/parentingforfaith-brf/s10e3-where-is-god-when-life-is-tough-eric-schumacher-and-jessika-sanders Thank you for listening today. If you are able to contribute to the cost of producing this podcast, please click here to give a one-off or regular gift: www.brf.org.uk/get-involved/give/ Parenting for Faith is part of the charity, BRF. We are reliant on donations from individuals and churches to make our resources available to as many people as possible. We are grateful for all donations, big or small. They make a real difference. Thank you so much for partnering with us.