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The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Episode 124 - Steve and Erin Ullmer pt. 1

The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Davey Blackburn and Aubrey Sampson

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Before Erin Ullmer had met her husband Steve, before her new life and new family, there was the moment on the bridge. The moment where everything changed. A peaceful day walking in the park for Erin, her husband John, and their kids turned into a life-defining moment when Erin lost her husband, her daughter, and very nearly her life in a random act of violence. In this first part of their conversation with Davey, Erin and Steve share the beginning of her story and how God met her in a place of unimaginable pain.   Episode Resources: Visit Steve's Website Check out Erin's Facebook Page This podcast is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you're a pastor or church leader, I'm sure at times it can feel overwhelming to see the amount of people in your congregation who are walking through pain in crisis right now.

0:09.0

I wish it weren't true, but the common denominator of life is pain.

0:13.0

And as a pastor myself, I know firsthand that another unfortunate common denominator

0:18.0

is that pain tends to derail people in your congregation from moving with you on mission and purpose.

0:24.7

The enemy's tactics have always been to neutralize our God-given purpose within the

0:28.3

local church and he frequently uses tragedy and trauma to do it.

0:32.8

If you're like most pastors, you probably feel like you don't have the resources,

0:35.3

staffing, bandwidth, or curriculum to address all the pain points in your church,

0:39.9

which is why we want to bring the Payne to Purpose course to your local congregation.

0:45.2

We develop this course as a pathway to come alongside you, help people heal inside the context

0:50.4

of their own spiritual community, and release them back on mission within your local church.

0:56.0

When my late wife Amanda was murdered in 2015, I wish someone had laid out a pathway that was this clear to help me and the members of our congregation moved from pain to purpose.

1:06.0

After tens of thousands of dollars spent on counseling for me and my staff, hundreds of hours of interviewing others who have walked through pain on this

1:13.8

podcast and dozens of hours of reading and researching everything I could get my hands on, we've

1:19.2

finally created that pathway.

1:21.6

And we'd love to come alongside you to bring it to your congregation in a way that's extremely affordable.

1:27.0

If you're interested in finding out more about the pain to purpose course, head over to my pain to purpose plan dot com slash churches I truly

1:36.4

believe and have witnessed it firsthand that what the enemy means for evil God

1:40.8

wants to use to catalyze a renewed and even stronger sense of purpose within the

1:45.8

members of your congregation.

1:48.0

So again, if you'd like us to partner with you to make that happen, head over to my pain to purpose plan.com

1:54.4

slash churches. That's my pain to purpose plan dot com slash churches. Welcome to the Nothing Is Wasted Podcast, conversations designed to help you as you live, learn and lead through pain.

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