Welcome to The Gathering Place with Blessed is She.

I'm Jenna Gizaar.

And I'm Beth Davis.

Pull up a chair and grab a drink.

Or you could just keep doing what you're doing.

Pull up a chair in your heart.

Come chat with us about Jesus, prayer, community, and life.

So let's get started.

Hey, Beth. Hey, Jenna. How are you doing?

So good. Good. I'm excited to be here with Lisa. Hi, Lisa. Hey, it's great to be with you guys today.

Lisa Brennickmeyer. Would you tell everybody a little bit about yourself? Sure. So I do a lot of what you guys do. I care deeply about women and I work with a women's ministry called Walking with Purpose. And I founded Walking with Purpose

now just about 11 years ago and started out just as a small group, Women's Bible Study.

There were eight of us in the church basement with our kids next door, and it just really morphed because, as you both know so well,

women really want community and deeper connection. And so our numbers just doubled and doubled,

and then we started crossing state lines and teaching other women how to

lead these kind of small group communities in their own parishes. And I started writing Bible studies,

I guess a couple years into it. So the first couple years, we used materials that were out there.

And then I started writing Bible studies maybe about 10 years ago. We cover all sorts of different

things with those studies. You can be doing

that in a paris setting or you can do them just on your own or in a small group. And then I also

wrote a book, Walking with Purpose. And that was published through your dynamic Catholic. But really

the main thing that I do is I am a wife, to Leo, the Dutch man, and mom to seven. Yeah, so all of that together keeps me pretty

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