You are listening to the place we find ourselves podcasts. I'm Adam Young, and I am joined today by Jimmy McGee and

Rebecca Wheeler-Wolston. Welcome to you both. Thank you for having us.

Rebecca, you've been on the podcast before in episode 104 where you graciously read one of your stories.

But Jimmy, you're not only new to the podcast, like you're new to me. We just met each other.

So can you tell our listeners a little bit about who you are, what you spend your time doing?

I read often and just finished a very encouraging and wonderful new biography on Martin Luther King. It's called King of Life.

I am the president and CEO of the Impact Movement. This is a national campus ministry that serves black students around the country.

And I want to emphasize black. Most times people don't hear black and they interchange the word African-American. That's not true.

We want to serve students of the diaspora. So we have Africans, we have African, we have Caribbean, we have African-Americans.

And I'm really trining my darness to see if we can explore how to really reach Afro Latinos.

I live in Atlanta, Georgia prior to my scent with impact. I've been with impact for eight years, closing in at the end of eight years.

I was in campus ministry with another campus ministry before that.

Okay, thank you. So the two of you have come on the podcast today to talk about story work and to invite folks to an upcoming event that will allow participants to engage their own stories in more depth.

But before we get to talking about the event that you guys are doing, let's just start by talking about how impact movement, the ministry that you both are associated with.

As a ministry, how did you all begin to delve into the realm of story work and why?

Because this is a relatively new endeavor for impact. So Jimmy, can you talk some about why story work has become important in your ministry?

Yeah, you know, it actually started on a whim from a woman who is now our board member, but she was actually an employee of the Allender Center.

She arranged for me to come and be a part of the story workshop that is sponsored by the Allender Center August of 2016.

And I flew from where I was in the country to Seattle.

And I was in the room there. The imagination for the experience was not for me just to go through the story workshop, but also for me to engage Dan Allender, Becky, and some of the facilitators.

And as I listen and process that moment, I began to see, wow, this trauma thing really is another way for us to expand our work with students.

Because a number of our students were experiencing trauma. Now at that time, the trauma that we were experiencing, this become very common is just every other month.

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