Women's Day 2019 here at Brooklyn Baptist Church, our theme is Fight. Faith intensified by

glorifying him together. So it was important in this fight for us to have a forum in which we could really talk openly

and honestly, bring in panelists, bring in people who had experienced things, bring in those people who were

experts in those fields to really minister and talk to and work out some things. So if we can get healed, if we can get some healing, if we can

work out our issues, then in turn we can help somebody else do the same thing.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast.

Today, we have a special episode that features a group of women

from the Brooklyn Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina.

Each year this committee of women puts together an event called Women's Day,

where they invite church members and the community at large

to take advantage of resources for women around health, finances, emotional issues, and

spiritual well-being.

Each week before the event, the committee gathers for a weekly prayer call where they pray for the event, hear each other's

prayer concerns, and read a devotional passage from Jesus Calling.

We caught up with these ladies live at the 2019 Women's Day and listened in on their panel conversation in

addition to talking with them individually about being involved in the event

and the weekly prayer call that has changed their lives.

My name is Trey Taylor with a Brooklyn Baptist Church and I was blessed with the opportunity

to become chair of Women's Day 2019.

It was nothing I had asked for or even thought I wanted to do, but when I was

given this incredible opportunity I really played about what Women's Day was going to look like this year. I love my church and I love

my pastor and not only did I want to make the church and our pastor proud. I wanted to sincerely do something,

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