I am so thankful for the people of God who carried the kingdom of God into my home, because it changed my life forever.

Hello, friends, Felicia here. I'm so excited to introduce you to this particular episode.

Once again, this is a Verity Conference

session from 2024. And in this particular session, you're going to meet a speaker who I was

thrilled that we got to host in 2024. She came all the way from Australia to join us in Northern

Michigan for that event.

Now, we are hosting a Verity Conference 2025, but it is all online.

And so if you'd like to join us, it's October 3rd through 4th.

It's a simulcast, so you can watch it from anywhere in the world.

And you can grab individual streaming tickets at Verityconference.com. Don't want you to miss

this because we have some amazing sessions coming this year on the Trinity, Christ in the Old

Testament, Theology of the multi-ethnic church, and my own session on Theology of Denominations,

and there's more. So check that out at Verityconference.com. And for this particular session,

I can't wait for you to hear Layla's testimony. I had actually never heard it until I was

sitting in the audience watching her session. I just knew that I loved to hear her teach and I love

her heart. And I especially love how faithful she has been as a single

woman to steward her singleness in such a powerful way. And one of the things that we try to do at

every woman a theologian is when we invite speakers, when we platform people, we try to invite a

wide range of different backgrounds. So when we talk about

diversity, we often think of only ethnic diversity. And that certainly is important. But we live in an

area of the country that is 95% white. Northern Michigan is 95% white. And then the other five percent is Native American.

And so we don't have a wide variety of ethnic diversity in our area. So of course, we seek that

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