Timeline for

The Guthrie Family

May, 1984                                       Nancy graduates from John Brown University with a major in Broadcasting and a minor in Biblical Studies.

October 18, 1985                            David Guthrie & Nancy Jinks meet in Waco, Texas, both working for Word, Inc., where Nancy is a publicist in the book publishing division working with leading Christian authors of the day. David and Nancy marry one year later.

September 1988                             The Guthries move to Dallas, Texas, with Word.

June 27, 1990                                 Matthew Owen Guthrie is born; Nancy leaves Word to start home-based media relations business which serves Christian publishers and ministries.

October 1993                                  The Guthries move to Nashville, Tennessee, where they join Christ Presbyterian Church, a PCA congregation.  Nancy immediately joins a Bible Study Fellowship class (BSF) and continues for the next eight years.

Fall, 1997                                       After developing a personal mission statement “to extend the ministries of great communicators of God’s Word,” Nancy finds herself working with and learning from Kay Arthur and Anne Graham Lotz.

November 23, 1998                        Hope Lauren Guthrie is born (preliminary diagnosis of Zellweger Syndrome the next day).

April 1999                                       Nancy speaks to women at her church, Christ Presbyterian Church, about what she is learning through Hope’s life and her impending death. 

June 9, 1999                                   Hope Guthrie dies.

December 5, 2000                          David & Nancy discover third pregnancy (despite David’s vasectomy) and Nancy undergoes pre-natal testing.

January 26, 2001                            Guthries find out their unborn baby boy has Zellweger Syndrome.

March 2001                                    Nancy begins writing a book about the lessons she learned about God from her study of the book of Job.

July 16, 2001                                  TIME Magazine article profiling the Guthries runs on the same day their third child, Gabriel Johnson Guthrie, is born.

January 15, 2002                            Gabriel Guthrie dies.

July 16, 2002                                  Nancy Guthrie’s first book, Holding On to Hope: A Pathway Through Suffering to the Heart of God, is published by Tyndale House Publishers.

Fall, 2002                                       Nancy begins speaking in a variety of venues, telling her story in the context of scripture.

Summer, 2003                                Nancy spends the summer studying Hebrews “as if” she were going to teach it to someone else.

April, 2004                                      Tyndale asks Nancy to write The One Year Book of Hope, which she crafts over the next nine months.

September-December, 2005          Nancy teaches through the book of Hebrews to the women at Christ Presbyterian Church.

July, 2007 Hoping for Something Better, an exploration of the book of Hebrews, is released by Tyndale House Publishers.

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