Hey friends. You're listening to the Go and Tell Gals podcast, and I'm your host, Jess Conlin.

In most of our episodes, we'll have a guest, a woman who is

running on mission right where she's at. We pray this podcast leaves you encouraged and spurred

on to go and tell the good news.

Hey friends, you are going to love this episode today. We have my good friend Ruth from Grace Laced.

And thank you so much for taking a minute to talk to us and share with us about where you're at right now.

I'm so glad to be here, Jess.

Listen, you are a woman on mission. You have a lot of things on your plate. You are an artist. You are an author. You are a mother. You are a minister of the

gospel. So will you just give us a quick snippet of what life looks like right now? Yeah, sure. You know, I am a mama six boys.

My oldest is 16 and my youngest is five. And after a decade, almost two decades, a full-time

ministry work alongside my husband who was a pastor, founding a school where he was a headmaster.

The roles in our season has shifted,

and currently we are full time with Grace Laced, the business we're running with my artwork and writing, but that's opened up to being also a platform where I get to speak to women

around the country, and I'm now writing books as well as you are.

And it is seriously an unexpected opportunity to minister to gospel in ways that I never thought

would be possible.

So we are in a season of just really welcoming these new opportunities and yet trying to be wise

about the ministry right at home and the ministry

right in our local community and that is a new area for us we recently moved this last year

so life currently looks like starting all over in a new town in a new state with new friends

new church new everything and even some new staff to Grace Laced,

but every day just trying to be faithful right at home as well as work in this space that we

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