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Okay, guys, Felicia Masonheimer here. We're going to be interviewing Amy Ford from Embrace Grace.

Thank you for having me on.

Yes, of course. So I know a lot of my audience are excited to meet you and to hear your story

and just to talk with you tonight. And so I know that Embrace Grace is probably new to many of them.

And I would just love for them to start out hearing a little bit about you, your story,

and what inspired Embrace Grace. And then maybe we'll move into more of the specific questions

based on based on all of that and your experience. So would you tell us who you are and what

you're so passionate about? Yeah, for sure. Okay, so my name's Amy Ford. And I lead a ministry

called Embrace Grace. And the reason why I started it is tied to my story. But I had an

employee pregnancy when I was 19. I was super scared. I grew up in a great home, Christian home,

but I didn't really have a relationship with the Lord. And so I, a new abortion wasn't something

that I ever wanted to do in my life. But in that moment, I was terrified. I would see her

makes you do crazy things. And you know, so scared, I was scared to tell my parents, so scared

that my friends would leave us here. My life was over. And so me and the father of the baby,

we kind of felt both the same way. And so we went to the abortion clinic. We paid for it.

We just thought, you know, this is like a quick fix. And you know, we'll deal with the consequences

of a broken heart later. And when I had really like, stuff down all my feelings and emotions. And so

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