There's people we get the privilege to minister to and to walk with and live life with every day

who have been through things in life I never had to go through and

instead of seeing those things as a weakness you begin to understand that they have a

strength in their life that has never been asked of me and what we find is is when people actually engage in the story of somebody

that God is actively redeeming it changes everything.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast.

Today we see how God is at work in some of the darkest places in our world and that even

in the most tragic situations he can redeem those moments for good.

Pastors Rob Cowles and Matt Roberts and forensic artist and author Carrie Stewart Parks.

First up, Matt Roberts and Rob Cals are founding members of the Genesis Project, a network

of believers who are working to reach people who don't normally do church.

Along the way, they've seen the beauty of forming authentic relationships with others, especially people who are different from us,

and the power of telling your true story, flaws and all to someone else, and still being loved. My name is Rob Coles. I am the

founding and lead pastor of Genesis Project in Fort Collins. My name is

Mount Roberts, my wife Candice and I have been married for 20 years and we

planted in lead a church called the Genesis Project in Ogden, Utah, and have been doing that for the last 10 years of our life.

When I was a young teenager, my family, my dad was transferred for work. I lived in the southeast for my entire life and so a pretty big culture shock for us going from a small very tight-knit Pentecostal church

environment in Atlanta, Georgia and showing up to the west and so as a young teenager as my family began

looking for a church I'll never forget showing up to to youth group on a

Wednesday night

and meeting Rob there.

And so our stories first really intersected

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