Christina's Story
Christina Ryan Claypool is a seasoned author and speaker with a miraculous story to tell. A month before her 16th birthday, she supernaturally survived a near fatal suicide attempt, but was then confined to a state mental institution with little hope for the future. After years of continued hospitalization and several more serious suicide attempts, Christina was finally released from psychiatric care. She hid her past, masking the torment with tranquilizers and alcohol. She blamed God for her life of misfortune, and was consumed with hatred for Him and for herself.
In 1986, after obtaining a college degree and a level of worldly success, Christina was again hospitalized for depression. During this final hospitalization, she became a Jesus follower, and her life changed dramatically.
Today, Christina speaks and writes about the pathway of healing for those who have been victimized by sexual, verbal and physical abuse; addiction; and mental illness, amonth many other topics.
In 2012, she was named the 2011 national first place $10,000 Amy Writing Awards winner. She has been featured on Joyce Meyer Ministries' Enjoying Everyday Life TV program, and also appeared in the Emmy nominated documentary, “Before You Say Good-Bye.” The documentary, which focuses on the myths about suicide, has been telecast nationally and internationally into millions of homes.
Her book, Seeds of Hope for Survivors subtitled For everyone who has ever been brokenhearted, addicted, or a victim, was endorsed by Ginger Stache, who is an Emmy-award winning Christian television producer, and by David Voth, an executive director for Crime Victim Services.
With almost two decades of experience in media, including years as a Christian television producer and reporter, she has interviewed many Christian celebrities. Personally, she has had the opportunity to be featured nationally on CBN's 700 Club, along with hosting and producing local TV specials for WTLW. For over a decade, Christina has written the Inspire column for Our Generation's Magazine, and is also a freelance newspaper columnist who received a 2014 2nd Place for best columnist (Div 2) in the Ohio Associated Press Awards. .
She earned a B.A. in Business Administration at Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio, In 2005, she completed a graduate degree in the Master of Ministry program at Mt. Vernon Nazarene University, where she has served as a past adjunct instructor in the MVNU Communications Department. www.MVNU.edu.
Her 2016 project titled, "52 churches in 52 weeks," chronicles her journey of visiting a different church each week for a year. Her goal was to answer the question, "How does the church become more relevant to millennials?"
She has spoken at churches, prisons, women’s meetings, and in a Haitian revival. She has also hosted TV broadcasts, and emceed at fairs and banquets, but her favorite things are drinking coffee, eating chocolate, and hanging out with her precious family.
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Inspiring Speaker/Award-winning Journalist 
