Hi friends, welcome to another episode of That Sounds Fun. I'm your host Annie F. Downs. Welcome to 2019. I hope you enjoyed the episode last week with Carrie Newhoff.

Hey, our new music for 2019 for our spring season is from Anx and Grace in our buddy, John McLaughlin. Make sure you pick up that album. I am loving it. I love it so much.

Hey, we're starting a new series that I kind of alluded to in Carrie Newhoff's episode. We're going to take a couple of shows this month and really focus on and think about the next generation.

What does it look like to be a part of raising up the next generation? I think it's incredibly important and I have some of what I consider the best experts on next generation. Some of them are actual next generation people. Some of them are doing ministry to them. Some of them are writing books for them.

I just think there's some of the smartest people I know. We've gathered them all. We've put them all off in 2018 and said, wait, wait, wait. We need to talk to you at the first of 2019 because we wanted the whole month to have that theme of what does it look like to invest in the next generation.

And first and foremost, I wanted to bring on my friend Amy Bird. Amy Bird is the director of Girls Ministry at Hunter Street Baptist Church and a Girls and Ministry resource author.

And she is just one of my heroes, honestly, in student ministry and in paying attention to the next generation. I think you'll find this conversation really helpful, whether you are surrounded by teenagers or you know just a couple or you are just watching them from a distance and wondering what is going on with this people group.

Amy Bird has got your answer. So here is my conversation with my friend who you are going to adore Amy Bird.

Amy Bird, you ready girl? Girl, here we go. Listen, just come over here. How long have we been trying to get in the same place? It's just embarrassing.

Ten years. I mean, see.

Do you know what is so fun to me is that the day we met, maybe I don't know, three years ago, five years ago, I was like, well, yes, obviously a thousand percent were friends. We're like cut from the same cloth.

And then we've been in the same place about two other times, even though we have tried and you because you're in you're in Birmingham, Huntsville Birmingham.

Birmingham, I think we probably passed each other on 65 twice a month. Yeah, you coming up here. Okay, Amy, you have a son and then you're pregnant.

I have an 18 month old, keep baby named Timothy and then I have two boys, Blakey, two boys.

I mean, what are you going to do? Caneloads eyes, boy, does it feel like it? What are you do?

I'm doing at the beginning of March. Oh wow. Okay. So there, I mean, if they're both caneloads right now, we're going to be a winter Ellen and a blink of an eye.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're. It's big. It is a big old belly. Yeah, no, there's like apps that that tell you what fruit your babies.

Bingo, I'll get an email and it's like, good morning. You have a pineapple. And I'm like, I know. I don't need you.

I feel it. Two pineapples. Yeah. So yes, three boys. Oh, that is really fun. Can you back up a little bit? Because I know your like, if I remember correctly, your pregnancy story.

I mean, it took you all a little bit of time, correct? It did. Yeah, we got married in about two years and decided just to try that. Have a baby and entered into a season.

We never saw come in in the sense of just fighting for him. It took about five years and lots of surgeries and lots of specialists.

You know, some seasons you can see coming and you're prepared and you anticipate it and then others hit you in the face and take over your world and you come out on the other side.

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