Welcome to the Journey Women Podcast. I'm your host, Hunter Beelis. Life's a journey we were never meant to walk alone. We all need friends along the way.

On the Journey Women Podcast, we'll chat with mentors about gracefully navigating the seasons and challenges we face on our journey to glorify God.

Today, we're continuing our Women of the Faith series. In it, we're talking about the stories of women from church history that will encourage us to trust our God who does not change.

Today, author and acquisitions editor Catherine Parks is going to share two incredible women with us, Esther, On Kim and Charlotte, Fortin Grimke.

These ladies will inspire you to live for God even in the hardest circumstances.

I can't wait for you to hear more about them, but before we get started, I want to say a big thank you to those of you who support our podcast through your generous donations.

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Catherine Park. Welcome back to the Journeywomen podcast.

Thank you so much. It's so fun to be back.

I am super happy to tell you that my girls have finally grown into something that you wrote long ago when we first met.

In my mind, your girls are still, like, toddler preschool age, so that's how I will always think of them.

Absolutely. So a little backstory back in the day when I lived outside of Nashville, Catherine and I connected and she was publishing a book called Empowered How God shaped 11 women's lives.

And at the time I thought this is such a fantastic book. I think I even read it for myself personally, but my little girls were so young that they couldn't fully appreciate it.

And then when we started brainstorming this series Women of the Faith, of course, we thought of you. And I pulled it out and realized, wow, I can double dip on my work.

I can actually read and do the mom thing while reading aloud about Christian missionaries and biography to my kids and simultaneously be working for Journeywomen. So praise the Lord.

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