You're listening to the Family Discipleship Podcast.

Welcome to the Family Discipleship Podcast.

We're here to equip and encourage Christian parents to lead their families,

and we are now posting every other Monday all year long.

This is Adam Griffin, and I'm here with my wonderful co-host,

Chelsea Griffin. We of course are both disappointed as well as our guests are that Cassie

could not be with us today. But we're really excited to introduce you to our two guests. We have

Champ Thornton and Beth Broome with us today, everybody. Woo! Champ, how are you? I'm doing great.

I'm in a sound booth at Crossway where I work. And so this is not my home. And I'm just so impressed with the vocal quality here. It makes me sound like Darth Vader. Less villainous. I think, well, maybe good Darth Vader, you know, after the fact. But like a lot of power. Yeah. Yes. Yes, the dark side. Beth, how are you this morning? I'm doing well. Thank you. Glad to be here. All right. Our listeners are eager to know about you guys. So would you all each just take a second to introduce yourselves to our listeners and tell us about what you do and who you are? Well, I am in the Raleigh, North Carolina area. We just, we moved here in

2025 from the Dallas area, which is where home was for our entire lives. And we are

enjoying the four seasons here, actual four seasons in North Carolina. It's amazing.

I'm actually the executive director at Bridge Haven

Counseling Associates, which is a nonprofit counseling ministry in the Raleigh-Durham area.

And that's the reason that we move to North Carolina. I also have a long history of doing

church-based ministry, but I am a licensed counselor by trade. And that is what I love doing and love being able to talk to kids, families, individuals,

young and old about the concept of suffering, which is part of what led me to move towards

this book that I got to write.

So that's what we're doing.

My husband Kenny is here with me, and we have three

kiddos. Two are grown, and one is 15. So we are still in the throes of parenthood. Awesome. Thank you.

So I have never lived in the state of Texas. So maybe I should say I'm ashamed to say, right? But my dad's

family is from Texas, just northwest of Dallas, Fort Worth. So there's roots there. Okay, so can I still be on the podcast? Yes. You're still on. Okay. Mute is Mike. And I'm not an Oklahoma fan, so I still qualify, right? Okay. So my family and I, I'm in Wheaton, Illinois right now at Crossway, but we live in the state of Delaware, so just south of Philadelphia.

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