Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

On today's episode, you'll hear a breakout conversation from TGC's 2004 Women's Conference.

So my name's Hunter Beelis. I am so glad to get to be with you guys today. My husband was in

the U.S. Army for eight years, and he departed, so we're no longer military now I'm a civilian so I feel a

little bit like a poser being up here well she is the first one of us to get some representation

in the crowd and we are through well my first TGCW was in 2018 and I came as a military spouse

and so it's really wonderful to get to see an event that's here that hopefully will get

to be an encouragement to you.

But I definitely want you to hear from my friend Megan here who has taken the baton

and tell him about where you're coming from and how long you've been in.

So my husband is in the Air Force and we are so close to retirement. I'm praying that the light at the end of the tunnel is not a train.

But we've been married almost 20 years.

We have four children.

They're teenage down to like my 16, 14, 12, and 9.

We've lived in 13 different houses.

We've been all over the place.

And military life is really a unique lifestyle.

It requires a shared sacrifice and suffering that almost all of us in this room understand very keenly.

And I love that we're having some conversations today about what it looks like to build actual intimate

connection, community, and learn to participate in the Great Commission together.

Today is really a milestone of there are things happening in the community that we're seeing

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