Rebekah Chilcote has always believed she is a child of God.
Her faith led her to provide art therapy for Zimbabwean children dying of AIDS. Faith continued to carry her as she provided art therapy for other children living in desperate circumstances
She has worked with homeless children in Cleveland, children in the West Bank living through poverty, war, and trauma, children in Zimbabwe living with AIDS and other severe illnesses, and children at the end of life in Uganda.
Her faith carried her as time and again she was witness to so much suffering. Where faith might while she may not understand why such suffering happens, she that helping and loving children living with trauma was Being witnessed to so much suffering challenged her faith. But the most serious challenge to Rebekah’s faith came when she realized she is gay and that she had to reconcile her faith and her sexuality to have a full, authentic life.
Rebekah shares that reconciliation, when she joins Jennifer Malcolm on the Jennasis, Speaks podcast.
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