Hey friends. You're listening to the Go and Tell Girls 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, today is a different kind of episode on the Go and Tell Gals podcast. It is an

interview and it's an interview with my new friend Monique Melton. But I want to tell you on the front

end, it's an interview filled with honest and hard and humbled questions. And it's an interview that really

details how our relationship began in light of those questions and with those questions.

Monique is doing beautiful work in the racial diversity, racial unity space. And I have grown to be really grateful

for her and be really grateful for her voice. But I just want to say on the front end, may we be

women who don't run from hard questions. And may we be women who don't run from tense, heavy

conversations. Because this place is where light can

absolutely and does often break through. In the midst of hard questions, in the midst of a lot of

questions with no answers, in the middle of repenting, good stuff happens. And so enjoy, enjoy this episode of the Go and Tell

Girls podcast. It might not feel great and it might not make you laugh a ton, but I pray that it will

encourage you and I pray that it will equip you to further do the work that got is called you too.

Friends, I have a treat for you today.

I have a new friend joining us on the podcast for an interview.

And this podcast episode may be different from past ones that you've listened to.

We're not going to ask them the typical questions, but we're going to tell a true and honest story of how we met and the conversations that we've begun to have. So thank you, Monique,

for joining us. And thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited. My actual pleasure.

Tell us what you do. Start there. What do you do? What does

life look like for you? Okay. Well, I love Jesus. So that's pretty simple right there. I am a mom.

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