Nancy Guthrie is widely known today as a Bible teacher, author, and conference speaker whose words resonate deeply. But her path to that platform was forged in one of life’s harshest classrooms—a hospital room, facing a reality no parent should ever know.
A Diagnosis No Parent Anticipates
Nancy and her husband, David, were young parents when their daughter, Hope, was diagnosed with Zellweger syndrome, a rare genetic disorder affecting multiple organ systems. There’s no cure, and life expectancy is painfully short. Hope lived just 199 days.
