When Tragedy Becomes a Testimony | NYTCP | Ep 62

Not Your Typical Church Podcast · Oct 29, 2026 · 39m

What if the thing you thought would hold you back is the thing God uses to move you forward?

Brandon Batten serves behind the scenes in our media room every week. In 2023 he lost his wife, Jesslyn, to breast cancer. She was 36, and their daughter had just turned five. This is a story about how one quiet invite changed a family, how a celebration of life led a future pastor to Jesus, how a desperate prayer was answered, and how God redeems what we would never choose.

In Jesslyn's memory, Brandon's family started A Walk to Remember to help uninsured and underinsured people pay for early breast…