Hey, it's Jordan Johnson, and you are listening to the Grove Podcast.

Y'all need to buckle up for today's episode.

We have the one and only Bianca Juarez-oltoff today and it is fire.

Bianca and her husband Matt are church planners in California and she also writes and

speaks and does it all with the most beautiful and hilarious authenticity.

She loves the word and we know that you will be so grateful for her as you listen to this talk

she gave at a recent Grove gathering. So here's Bianca Juarez-oltof, live at the Grove.

I have referenced the Grove. It's kind of like the Disneyland of women's ministry. I have been stalking

you guys I have been looking at what's going on and seeing what God is doing here

and sometimes when you're in the midst of a miracle, you miss the miracle.

And so I want you to know you are so fortunate to be part of, maybe you go to a different church,

you're welcome here, but part of the Grove community, if PCC is your home church you are rooted and planted in such an amazing move of God

And so to be ought to to be here is a radical honor and let me tell you why because I was at the fall I think or end of last year I made a

list of all the things that I wanted to do in 2020 and one of them was to come to the

Grove and see what God's doing here.

And then I got invited to be here, and I'm like,

won't he do it?

Yes!

And this means a lot because I always wrestled with not feeling chosen not feeling wanted I was never you know picked for captain to the kickball team or chosen to be on a team and I

vividly remember being in Sunday school I was about 11 years old and I was really struggling with this idea of being totally on the outside and it wasn't until I went to Sunday school and my Sunday school teacher by the name of Mr Charles,

who is a man from Georgia,

he had skin, the color of dark chocolate,

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