About Us

Sufficient Grace Ministries for Women, Inc.
~ Comforting Others With the Comfort We Have Received…~

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort that we ourselves have received from God. ~ 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Sufficient Grace Ministries for Women, a 501 (c ) 3 non-profit, non-denominational Christian organization, was founded in 2004 by Kelly Gerken with the purpose of reaching out to women and families to offer comfort, encouragement and hope. The Dreams of You division of this ministry was created specifically to provide comfort to women and families who have lost a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death.

Kelly has experienced the loss of twin daughters (Faith and Grace) at 26 weeks and the loss of an infant son, (Thomas)who died shortly after birth from Potter’s Syndrome. From her own family’s journey of grief and healing, Kelly has created the Dreams of You Memory Book and other beautiful support materials to help families form a precious memory for their babies who leave this earth too soon.

Her mother, Kathy Rutter, created the Comfort Bear in 2004 for grieving mothers to have something to hold to comfort the ache of their empty arms. (Although Kathy went home to heaven in October 2006, the bears are still made with a grandmother’s love and prayers by the Helping Hands Ministry at Harvest Fellowship Church.)

Over the years, Kelly has shared her testimony of God’s comfort and sufficient grace and her gift of song with churches and women’s groups. She has also given hospital seminars encouraging caregivers on the importance of creating a tangible memory and understanding the grieving parent’s perspective. The Dreams of You Memory Book and Baskets are currently available at 5 local hospitals: Lima Memorial, St. Luke’s, St. Charles, Henry County, and Defiance Regional Medical Center as well as Rodenberger Funeral Home and Zachrich Funeral Home. (We have shipped Dreams of You materials to individuals all over the United States, and ship to Canada also.) Recently, Sufficient Grace launched an online bereavement support outreach called Walking With You. Many women have found comfort in the knowledge that they are not walking this difficult path alone, and there is hope even in the midst of the storms of grief.

While ministering to the hearts of grieving parents has been much of our focus, we also reach out through our website, (and formerly through The Women’s Edge Newsletter)to all women and families, encouraging one another with biblical truth. We are launching Encouraging One Another as a place for that purpose.

Many families have come to us as well through our website and word of mouth. Bereaved parents are never asked to pay for our materials. We are supported through donations from individuals, hospitals and other organizations. 


To contact Kelly about speaking at your event or for more information about Sufficient Grace, please email: sufficientgraceministries@gmail.com. To order materials, please visit the Dreams of You Page. 

Sufficient Grace Ministries for Women, Inc. Board Members:                                                    

Kelly Gerken ~ Rebecca Burner ~ Holly Haas ~ Tim Gerken