So first of all, I want to congratulate her on the release of her new book, Church Girl.

So we are excited for this.

Now, when I was reading this, especially just the subtitle, it's a gospel vision to encourage and challenge black Christian women.

And I thought it was so unique for for Dr. Sarita to take this perspective. But as we're learning,

just like everybody in the room may not have been personally touched by cancer, we can still

bear one another's burdens and benefit from understanding those perspectives. And so

even though this has a specific audience in some aspects, much of it is global. So what made you want to

write this for these women? Yes, amen. Great question. So for me, you know, Tony Morrison always said,

if you want to read a book and it doesn't exist,

you should write it. And so this is really a culmination of my entire life of, and even in

before being in Christ fully and walking with the Lord and being in ministry, just wishing I had a resource that was orthodox and sound

that also spoke to my lived experiences.

You know, for years counseling black women

and serving and leading black women and all sorts of women,

this, the stuff in this book is the stuff black women

had been talking about, but just not

seeing kind of articulated on a larger scale or in a publishing company. And I think it's important

for all members of the body of Christ to feel seeing and known and feel like God has their hand on them.

Because for black women in particular we live

in a world where we've had to question our existence our humanity our dignity and even our right to be

called the daughters of God and so and I and I do know that there are particular attacks by the enemy on black women around identity.

The enemy wants many black women to leave the faith and many have left the faith because the lie on the street is that Christianity is the white man's religion, that somehow God is oppressive.

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