Welcome to footprints-online.com! Our website was at one time an online Christian community. We decided that it would better serve the community as a chronic pain support site now, for so many reasons. The most important reason was, that I as the administrator have come across so many people and families suffering with chronic pain, and/or members of the family suffering from chronic pain. I too, the administrator suffer from chronic pain due to several injuries, the first happening in 2001 as I was leaving work. Since that injury in 2001, I have come across thousands of people on the internet and in everyday life who suffer with chronic pain or they have someone in the family who suffers from chronic pain. The toll on people and their families is devastating. 

Footprints Online Christian Community was started many years ago and long before my injury in 2001. I started it as a hobby and turned it into a family and friends website. I had so much interest from so many people that it eventually turned into a public community. Since I injured myself in 2001, it has been way too hard to keep up with and I have been praying about what to do with the site since.  I love to work on it when I have my better days and didn't want to take it down, but I wanted to simplify it and focus in on something worthwhile and beneficial to myself and the rest of the community, thus footprints-online.com, the support site for people suffering with chronic pain and for their families is now in the process of being born. 

My husband's and my goal, knowing how hard chronic pain is for the families as well as the one suffering from pain, understand how hard it is. Our goal is to strengthen families and share hope for those suffering, through one on one comfort, support groups, prayer, and education.

If you are suffering from chronic pain due to an injury or illness or a family member of someone suffering chronic pain, we would like to invite you to register and become a member and keep a watch for announcements, support groups, and news and articles you may be interested in. Please keep us in your prayers as we embark on this important and very much needed venture.

Thank you for visiting,

Marie & Greg Gruidl

Administration