WHAT IF YOUR CHILD WERE KILLED TRAGICALLY?
..........would you be ready today to deal with a broken heart?
What if you had to smuggle out his remains
and people who should have cared were calculating & callous?
How would you deal with a God who seemingly now makes no sense?
and people who should have cared were calculating & callous?
Is your heart broken now?
From Brokenness to Wholeness GUEST: Gene Kiepura, is author of Back To Tonic, the tell-all, true life story, about his child's death in Mexico and the aftermath.
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A CRISIS OF FAITH, NATIONS, AND CULTURES
A MAN MUST SMUGGLE HIS CREMATED SON
OUT OF A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY
Members of a small church gathered together to pray for their youth leader and four boys who were about to embark on a mission trip to Mexico. Seventeen days later, all five of them were dead. Life painfully changed. After the horrific experience of recovering the bodies and evading a greedy American Embassy in Mexico, A father returns home to find little in the way of solace from the people he was counting on.
Back to Tonic is that part of a blues music sequence when the rhythm gets back to its resolution. It is also the true story of a man whose teenage son Jake is tragically cut down with an extremely promising life ahead of him, while on a missionary trip to Mexico. A brutal head on collision that took the lives of six people. This is the story of a man of deep Christian faith who reads the bible passionately and whose faith begins at one level and has to deepen to reach new heights after the shocking pain and loss.
The tragedy was bad enough just on the face of it; but Gene then had to deal with a corrupt US Embassy staff and scores of venal characters south of the border, who had no qualms about using a man's vulnerability at a terrible time to try and take advantage of him. Jake and the remains of the others had to be cremated and smuggled out of Mexico. It was only after the funeral back home that the journey to healing could begin... a journey instructive for all.
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| Back to Tonic author Gene Kiepura |
Gene Kiepura,
("KA-PURR-AHH" )
a retired railroad
machinist
from Chicago is a husband for 41 years to his high school sweetheart Jan and father to three children; one of whom-Jacob Kiepura-passed away at only 14 years of age in a brutal head on collision, along with
four
companions and an adult, during a much anticipated trip to Mexico. That death constituted a "before and after" watershed moment in his
role as a father, husband to Jan Kiepura and man of faith confronted with the oft times seemingly illogical
ways of human existence and behavior-including deaths that seem impossible to comprehend. His book "Back to Tonic"
tells the story of Jacob, and the journey of his sisters and especially mother and father on the road to bereavement and acceptance. G
ene currently delivers lectures to church groups and other gatherings about his journey from brokennes to healing.
A STORY DECADES IN THE MAKING
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WEBSITE: http://genekiepura.
TWITTER: @GKiepura
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