It's that faith in action to me that actually changes the world and sometimes we think that the acts we do are small acts, but they're not.

Those small acts add up to very, very large things.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast.

Today's guests have been actively involved in lifting up and empowering women and men to pursue

their full potential in life.

Philanthropist and writer Melinda Gates and pastor and teacher Dr Tony Evans.

First up, Melinda Gates and her husband, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, have been working for

nearly two decades through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

to help women and children around the world step out of poverty and live in equality.

Melinda shares a bit of the path that led to the work that she and Bill do now and the faith that led to the work that she and Bill do now and the faith

that drives her to really think about who her neighbors are both at home and abroad and

how they should be treated. She's just released a book called The Moment of Lift in which she shares stories around the virtue of community and the lasting effects that occur when we take action toward empowering women all over the world.

Hi, I'm Melinda Gates.

I'm a mother of three children and a philanthropist.

I'm married to Bill Gates.

And I've recently written a book called The Moment of Lift.

So I grew up in Dallas, Texas. My parents, Ray and Elaine French, and I had three

siblings and grew up in a Catholic family. I'm still a practicing Catholic Catholic and that meant that I went to

Catholic school my siblings and I did basically kindergarten through 12th

grade and we would go to church routinely as a family on Sundays and then also usually that would follow

then with a family brunch at home.

But yeah, faith's been a big part of my life for a very long time and still is.

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