Connections with Mike Thom and Colleen Houde
Cliff Derksen: Hanging on to God's promises in the face of a terminal diagnosis

Connections with Mike Thom and Colleen Houde
Cliff Derksen: Hanging on to God's promises in the face of a terminal diagnosis
Mar 10, 2022
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Episodes Notes
Life has been a rollercoaster ride for the Derksen family.
In November of 1984, Wilma and Cliff Derksen's 13-year-old daughter, Candace, was found murdered after going missing on her way home from school.
It wasn’t until 22 years later that Mark Edward Grant was charged with her murder.
In 2011, after a five-week trial, he was found guilty and sentenced to 25 years without parole. The case has since gone through an appeal process, a retrial and ended with an acquittal in October 2017.
The Derken's faith kept them strong throughout all of this, but now they are facing a new battle, a cancer diagnosis.
Today on Connections, Cliff shares what it was like to receive that news, how this has affected his faith and what he and his family plan to do moving forward.
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