Hi, I'm Leslie Rudy, host of the Set-A-Part Podcast, biblical encouragement for women of all ages.

Today I'm really excited to be starting a new series

on spiritual lessons from Amy Carmichael.

If you don't know who Amy Carmichael is,

she's one of my missionary heroes and I'm going to

be walking through a series on several of the women who have most impacted my life

and what we can glean from their lives and apply to the times in which we live.

Before we dive in, I wanted to remind you that our print magazine is now releasing

four times every year.

So if you're not yet a subscriber, please go to set apart girl.com and check out the options there.

And also look at our online mentoring program, which has over 175 hours of video teaching

for all the practical areas of set apart living.

So no matter what your age or season of life, I believe you'll find something there that can

speak to you where you're at.

Let's Michael's life kind of going to three things that I most appreciated about her and in

this series I'm going to get a little more granular and walk through her life story

and just talk to you about all the specific ways that she's personally impacted me and the

Ministry of set apart and what we can learn the principles that we can apply to our life today.

First I wanted to give you a really quick background on why I love

Christian biography so much because we so often desire to have fathers and

mothers of the faith, people who can speak into our life and offer us

wisdom and counsel and spiritual perspective and sometimes those people just

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