Joyce’s Story / PCA / FL

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Documentary, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Mental Health

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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In this episode, Joyce shares her story of involvement in a PCA church in Florida and how her experience of marriage, faith, and community unfolded over more than a decade. She describes the early support her family received, her deep investment in church life, and how that shifted when she began raising concerns about her marriage. Joyce outlines the church’s response, her efforts to seek counseling, the process of pursuing divorce, and the consequences that followed, including church discip...

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0:33.7	Thank you for daring to listen.
0:46.4	Today we welcome Joyce to the podcast. She will be sharing her story about her time at a PCA church in Florida, as well as her personal journey through marriage and faith. We are so
0:52.5	thankful for Joyce and her courage to speak out.
0:55.5	Be sure to stay tuned until the end of the episode
0:58.7	because we will be sharing an update on Joyce's story.
1:08.7	I am all about blessed subtraction.
1:11.6	There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Marsville bus.
1:16.6	And by God's grace it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.
1:20.6	You either get on the bus or you get run over by the bus.
1:23.6	Those are the options. But the bus ain't gonna stop. You either get on the bus. Those are the options, but the bus ain't can stop.
1:33.2	You either get on the bus, or you get run over by the bus.
1:36.3	Those are the options.
1:40.3	But the bus ain't going to stop.
1:45.0	All right, everybody, welcome back to the Bodies Behind the Bus podcast. We have another storyteller with us here today.
1:47.8	We have Joyce.
1:48.6	Today, Joyce is going to be talking about her experiences involved with a PCA church in Florida.
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