Conference: "We've Come This Far By Faith...African-American Women, Cancer and End-of-Life Care"

Opening speaker Patricia Horton, Montgomery County Director of Community Health Services, outlining cancer's impact on African American women and the importance of cancer education and prevention.

Rev. Dr. Christine Wiley of Covenant Baptist Church explains powerful links between health, hospice and spirituality in her dynamic keynote address "What's Faith Got to Do With It?"

An audience member listens to the moving stories of people coping with loss in the panel discussion "Going on Without Giving Up."

Barbara Ridley, Minister of Comfort at Ebeneezer A.M.E. Church, acknowledges a friend while on her way to moderate the panel "Surviving Cancer, Living with Loss."

Conference organizer and Montgomery Hospice chaplain Paulette Stevens answering audience questions during a break.

Contemporary gospel group T.R.U. Worship, performing in the conference's closing program.