Like we have this keen awareness and sense of the goodness of God and that even in the

tragicness of our tragic nature of where we've been that there's still this beautiful story

that's being poured out and that's been another beautiful thing.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. Today's guests have traveled long stretches of despair and loss,

but today they're embracing what God has next for them.

Pastor and author Jonathan Pitts, an entrepreneur John Hill.

First up, Jonathan Pitts has had a whirlwind year,

weeks after celebrating 15 years of marriage with his wife,

winter.

On a warm summer night in 2018, 38-year-old Winter Evans Pitts passed away unexpectedly in her sleep.

Winter left behind a family of four girls and a thriving ministry and writing career. Today Jonathan shares about

his life with Winter, including their final book they wrote together called Emptied, and how

God is still using her creative spirit to minister to others.

My name is Jonathan Pitts and I'm currently an executive pastor at Church of the City

which is a church in Franklin Tennessee. It's a family of churches. They're about six churches total.

And I married my wife, Winter, Danielle Evans, and we were married 15 years.

I also served as president of for girls like you.

And it's a non-profit organization that's right now growing

out of what was just a heart desire for her,

for our girls.

So that's me. If you saw me you wouldn't know it but I'm I look

African American. I'm brown skin but my mom is German and my parents met at a place

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