Happy New Year and welcome to the She Reads Truth podcast. She Reads Truth creates beautiful, accessible Bible reading plans and resources to help you get into God's Word every day.

Each week here on the podcast, we talk about what we're going to read together as a community this week.

I'm your host, Amanda Bible Williams.

And I'm your other host,

Rachel Myers, and this is week one of the new year, week one of our new plan. We are jumping into

the Book of Genesis. We're going to spend five weeks, which feels like maybe a lot of time,

but it feels like not enough time. Not enough. Oh my goodness. For week one, we are joined by Terry Parkman. Terry was a guest

for us about six months ago, and we needed to have him back for this episode. And we are so glad

that we did. Terry is all about next generation future of the church. He serves as the founder

of Next Generation Leader. He's the global co-chair for Empower 21 NextGen and so on and so on.

He's also the lead campus pastor at River Valley Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Like reading all of that, it's just like, yep, that checks out.

That makes sense.

He loves the church.

He loves God's Word.

And he cares so deeply about the future of Christ's Church. And you're going to get that in this episode and so much more. I cannot wait. Happy New Year. Let's get right to it.

All right. Terry, happy New Year and welcome back. We're so glad you're here. It is so good to be with you guys again.

Definitely a highlight and a priority for me to be a part of this. I love it.

Oh, listen, careful what you say there, friend. We will. We will just line you up as often as we can.

I think it has been less than six months since you last aired with us.

And so, listen, when we say things like, please come back, we really do mean it.

And thank you for saying yes.

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