Book cover for Carrying Others While Carrying Yourself by Nicole Washington, featuring a woman in purple holding a book at sunset
2027 Virtual Gathering

Carrying Others While Carrying Yourself

Because the people who carry everyone else deserve someone to carry them too.

A global virtual gathering for caregivers, spouses, family supporters, healthcare workers, ministry leaders, and anyone carrying responsibilities few people truly understand.

Date to be announced — 2027Virtual — Join from anywhere

Free to attend. Registration will be required. All are welcome from anywhere in the world.

Who Should Attend

This Event Is For You

If you show up every day to help someone else, this gathering was designed with you in mind.

Family Caregivers

  • Family caregivers
  • Spouses
  • Adult children caring for parents
  • Parents of special needs children
  • Special needs caregivers
  • Alzheimer’s caregivers
  • Dementia caregivers
  • Stroke caregivers
  • Dialysis caregivers

Professionals

  • Healthcare professionals
  • Nurses
  • Patient care technicians
  • CNAs
  • Home health aides
  • Social workers
  • Pastors
  • Ministry leaders

Anyone Who Needs This

  • Anyone carrying a heavy responsibility
  • People who show up every day but nobody checks on
  • The exhausted. The invisible. The faithful.
  • Anyone who needs to hear: you are not alone.

"Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."

Galatians 6:2

Opening Keynote

Who Holds Up the Caregiver?

By Pastor Nicole Washington

The opening keynote explores the hidden burden of caregiving and asks one powerful question: Who is pouring into the person who spends their life pouring into everyone else?

Main Sessions

Conference Themes

StrengthGraceSupportEncouragementFaithResilienceSelf-careCommunityHealingHope

Session One

When the Crisis Becomes Normal to Everyone Else

Understanding caregiver isolation and the reality of long-term caregiving.

Session Two

Who Stayed?

Recognizing true support systems during difficult seasons.

Session Three

Stroke Changed Everything

A spouse's journey through stroke recovery, rehabilitation, aphasia, and rebuilding life.

Session Four

Loving Through Alzheimer's and Dementia

Understanding grief, memory loss, behavioral changes, and finding grace in difficult moments.

Session Five

Special Needs, Extraordinary Love

Supporting families caring for children and adults with lifelong challenges.

Session Six

Caregiver Burnout Is Real

Compassion fatigue, exhaustion, guilt, and how to recover.

Session Seven

Boundaries Are Not Selfish

Learning to survive without sacrificing yourself.

Session Eight

Still Standing

Finding strength when life has taken everything you expected.

Special Features

More Than Just Sessions

Caregiver Prayer Room

Virtual Encouragement Lounge

Live Q&A Sessions

Caregiver Resource Library

Digital Workbook

Downloadable Declarations

Downloadable Caregiver Prayers

Closing Communion Service

Closing Message

While I Was Carrying Them, God Was Carrying Me

Pastor Nicole Washington

Closing Declaration

I am not forgotten.

I am not invisible.

I am not alone.

God sees me.

God strengthens me.

God sustains me.

God is carrying me while I carry others.

And by His grace, I am still standing.

"You are not alone. You are not forgotten. You are not invisible."

2027 Virtual Gathering

You care for everyone else. Who is caring for you?

Join Pastor Nicole Washington and caregivers from around the world for a powerful virtual gathering created specifically for those carrying the weight of caring for others. Whether you are caring for a spouse, parent, child, patient, family member, or friend — this event is designed to strengthen your heart, encourage your spirit, and remind you that you are not walking this journey alone.

Free to attend. Registration will be required. All are welcome from anywhere in the world.