Oh, come, oh, call me, Matthew.

Stories are important because they are meaningful, and they are meaningful because they are memorable, powerful, and they are personally connect us with each other.

In this podcast, we take names, faces, hopes, and dreams of people of all walks of life.

We are diverse with ages and races.

You will have the opportunity to hear these stories in their own words.

We believe your story and God's story will intersect with the stories of others.

God's story is revealed through scriptures.

Your story is revealed through experiences. Their story is revealed through experiences. Their story is

revealed in life events. Our hope is that through this podcast, we will recognize that God

uses every part of our stories, even the messy parts, to bring glory to himself, draw his children

close and call others into his family. This podcast is the

perfect intersection between your story and God's story. We believe you will leave here inspired,

encouraged, and challenged to share your story with the world. Welcome to the Scriptures and Stories

podcast with your host, Roshan Copeland.

Hey, this is Anitha, and firstly would like to apologize for the delay in getting this testimony to you.

So I was of a different faith actually and born into a family who just like wonderful family, wonderful parents, but just of a different faith.

And the value systems instilled in me, however, was so much about God and having a relationship

with God and to some degree, but very much about works as well as a lot of religions are.

And I remember having a very childlike faith and as a child I would be very curious.

And I think I had a very close relationship is the word that I would now use with God

where it was more like a friend and you know treating God like a father and

somewhere growing up that kind of disconnect started happening and and and

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