S3 08 Lauren McAfee: Trusting in God During Life’s Worst Nightmares
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Lauren Green McAfee was raised in a Christian home. She is the granddaughter of the founder of Hobby Lobby, and daughter of Steve Green, the founder of the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. The mother of two children, Lauren found out just one month after their elder child, Zion, was adopted that she had cancer. She shares with us how waiting, longing, and suffering drove her deeper into Scripture and into a more intimate relationship with God.
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| 0:45.8 | Our guest today on the Strong Women podcast is Lauren McAfee Green, who was raised in a Christian home. |
| 0:56.1 | In fact, her grandfather started Hobby Lobby, and her father, Steve Green, is the founder of the |
| 1:02.5 | Museum of the Bible. |
| 1:04.1 | Lauren and her husband have adopted two children. |
| 1:07.2 | Cancer was discovered in her oldest Zion, only a month after finally being able to bring her home. |
| 1:14.9 | So she walks us through how this waiting and longing of the adoption process |
| 1:20.1 | combined with the suffering that followed and the pain of watching a child go through such |
| 1:26.8 | hardship that it actually drove her deeper into |
| 1:30.4 | scripture and into a more intimate relationship with God. Join us. I hope you'll enjoy this. |
| 1:42.0 | So Lauren, we love to start our interviews with all of our guests talking about where you started. |
| 1:48.9 | So obviously you have a public family and with Hobby Lobby Museum of the Bible. |
| 1:55.1 | But can you tell us about your family growing up, where you grew up, siblings, anything you want to share like that? |
| 2:03.7 | Yeah, sure. So I was born in Oklahoma City, which is where I still live today. And I am one of six kids. |
| 2:12.4 | So I just grew up with a bunch of siblings. I have one older brother and then four younger sisters. And so |
| 2:19.3 | lots of sisters, which has been super fun. So we all right now live in Oklahoma City. My whole family |
| 2:25.0 | is in Oklahoma City. Me and my siblings have each taken turns leaving Oklahoma City, but we've all |
| 2:30.6 | ended up coming back. So we've lived in New York and L.A. and D.C. And somehow, to my parents' great joy, we've all gone back to Oklahoma City. So yeah, I've lived in Oklahoma City my entire life, except for a short stint where I lived in New York City back in 2015 and 16. Me and my husband lived out there for a while in the upper west side of |
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