Hi, this is Katya Adams. This message is called reintroducing God from the book of Esther.

Thanks for tuning in to this Upper Room podcast. Wow, thank you. Michael, Larissa,

Eldership here for having us. We feel like we're amongst family and it's such a joy to be,

to be with family who you might never have met before, but to know that

we are one body and that we're united in his spirit.

It's a beautiful thing.

I want to spend just a moment just to give you a little bit more of my story.

Most people get very distracted for about 20 minutes with my accent, so I want to give you a little bit more of my story. Most people get very distracted for about 20 minutes

with my accent.

So I wanna help you with that so that we can just move past that.

I know I sound a little bit strange.

So I'm ethnically Armenian, but I was born in Iran, as Larissa said.

And when I was five, we moved from Iran as a family to the UK. I grew up just

south of London and then lived and worked in London for 10 years. And then when Julian and I got

married 10 years ago in August, we lived in Bedford in the UK for a year and a half, and then we

moved to South Africa and lived in South Africa

in Durban for four years. And then God called us to the States. We lived in California for about

eight months and then moved to Boston. So if I sound strange to you, it's not my fault.

I have been exposed to many very different accents throughout my life.

And now we're just praying the blessing of the Lord over our children, an Armenian mother,

a South African father, and the Boston accent.

What will that create?

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