Diamonds 2024: Journeying

This is for the chronic illness warrier weary of the journey. This is for the one just diagnosed. This is for the one trying to plan for the future with an unpredictable illness. This is for the one longing for community admit a new lifestyle. You are not alone. You are worth the fight. And we're here to fight with you.

Diamonds is an online conference for Christians with chronic illlnesses, disabilities, and health challenges. Millions of chronicially ill people battle impossible trials every single day. But, so many of them feel so alone. The speakers of Diamonds 2024 want them to know they aren't - not by a long shot.

The theme for Diamonds 2024 is "Journeying" - we want them to meet every single chronic illness warrior where they're at, no matter which curve of the chronic illness road they're on. You are invited to particpate from wherever you are. Your heart and mind are worth just as much as your body is.

Diamonds 2024 Topics

• 7 Years Later: What Having an Incurable Disorder is Teaching Me about Living Well
• How To Live An Abundant Life With a Chronic Illness
• My Illness Does Not Define Me
• Riding the Pendulum: Trusting Our Unknowns To The God Who Knows
• The Journey to Forgiveness
• When Your Loved One Suffers from Chronic Pain and Illness
• Embracing a Different Future
• Tending Hope + Health in Every Season of Chronic Illness
• Personal Bible Study: Pursuing the Knowledge of Christ No Matter Where You Are in Your Chronic Illness Journey
• The Journey is the Reward
• When Your Body Starts To Heal
• Journeying With Others Who “Get It”
• Wait for the Lord: Trusting the Author with our unfinished story
• Tents, Temples, and the City of God: A Biblical Theology of the God Who Journeys with Us
• The Sufficiency of Christ: the Key to Acceptance and Joy
• A Journey of Worth, A Passage to Peace
• Overcoming Depression and Anxiety
• Facing Roadblocks On Your Chronic Illness Journey
• Finding New Community When You’re Chronically Ill

Diamonds 2024 Speakers

Heather M. Dixon
Tasha Marie Brown
Timothy C. Gunnells
Erica Baldwin
Katherine French-Ewing
Nate Brooks
David Heflin
Rachel Marie Kang
Rachel Lundy
Tera Bradham DeNeui
S.G. Willoughby
Kate Brooks
Angela C Millen
Will Lundy
Chris & Nicole O’Meara
Michelle Kelso Kafer
Linda & Jen Barrick
Katerina B.
Pamela Piquette
Mark & Carley DenBoer
Amy Baik Lee