Reading our Bibles regularly can be a challenge, but we're all on this journey together.

We're praying that this podcast inspires you, helps you better understand God's Word, and builds your faith.

This is Join the Journey with your host, Emma Daughter.

Thanks for joining today. We are in Second King's 15 and 16, and I am joined in the podcast studio by a great friend, the one and only, Andrea Calderon.

Hey guys, happy to be here. Andrea, it's so fun to have you in the podcast. This is a new thing for you, right?

It is, but I'm excited to be joining. I'm excited you're joining, too.

For those who don't know you, would you share a little bit about how you came to know the Lord,

and then fast forward what's going on in your life today? Yes, absolutely. So, grew up in a home

where Jesus was talked about a lot, and I would say dinner table conversations, car rides on the way of school was about Jesus.

And so had this idea of God in my mind for a long time of who he was. But it wasn't a personal

relationship really until high school when I found myself in isolation, loneliness, anxiety, and just had nowhere to look to.

And it wasn't my parents' faith anymore, and it became really personal.

And so really, God used TBRM.

It was a summer camp.

It's a great summer camp.

It's a great summer camp.

I worked there in college.

And I went there in my summers and Smith summers there.

And the older women, the counselors that invested their time into me, I just looked at their

faith and was like, I want that. I want this personal relationship with Jesus.

And so through the anxiety and the loneliness, really just turned to God in high school. And then

he just captured my heart and surrendered my life to him and went back summer after summer to serve

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