Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivey podcast. I am your host Jamie and I am so excited that you're here.

Every week I invite a girlfriend to join me on the show and we chat about the big things in life, the little things in life and everything in between.

I'm listening to episode number 58 and today's guest is Jelisa McCreeery. Jelisa is a worship leader of the Austin Stone community church here in Austin, Texas and she's been leading worship since 2011 and focuses on the development and discipleship of female worship leaders through the Austin Stone worship program.

Today Jelisa and I chat about what it's like to be a single girl in the church these days and she has some great words for us married people.

So if you're married listen and if you're single I know you're going to be non your head along with her.

She's a great story of how she lost her voice and then became a worship leader and we talk a lot about the upcoming album, This Glorious Grace from Austin Stone worship where she leads on two of the songs.

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I'll also have a link for that on my website jmeiv.com if that helps you out.

Guys, you're going to enjoy this conversation with my friend jelisa and be sure and listen at the end because I'm going to let you hear how you can get a free download of a song and I might just play a little bit of the song for you to kind of wet your taste buds for the new music coming up from Austin Stone worship.

Here's Jelisa.

Hey Jelisa, welcome to the Happy Hour.

Hi Jeme, thanks for having me. It's always fun when I have real life friends.

Real life in front of you.

In front of me, yeah, you're sitting in front of me which is a rare thing as well.

Thanks for coming on.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Tell everyone who's listening who is Jelisa?

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