Welcome to the Jada Edwards podcast, where I get to take a few moments to share with you what God is sharing with me.

Okay, that was our seventh countdown.

So welcome to the Jada Edwards podcast.

I am thrilled to be with you.

And, you know, this podcast is kind of a mixture of a little bit snippets of teaching, some points of view that I may share. And every now and then, I'll have an interview if it's really, really special. And so today I have the amazing Debbie Stewart and we call her Mama Debbie here at One community church because she has just been like a well

of wisdom for us, not just with the words that come out of her mouth, but the life she lives. And so

Debbie, welcome to the podcast. I am so happy to be here. I've missed you. It's been a little,

it's been a minute and I love, I love the women here so much. Listen, you have a teachable group.

They are just ready to receive the word. And I love the girls here so much listen you have a teachable group they are just ready to receive the

word and i are ready i love the girls and you always deliver so thank you so much so since we can

catch up real quick we haven't seen each other a little bit tell me what are you doing now where are you

serving what's life looking at listen i am in east texas at green acres baptist church in tiler texas

been there about three years.

And then over the last two years, I think since I've been here last, we've had some major

life transitions happen. My husband had a heart transplant two years ago in January. And then

oftentimes I would talk about our son's journey, his journey of incarceration and addiction

and all of those things. And he was released right after my husband

had the heart transplant. So two very parallel tracks. And the Lord was really teaching us so much

through that process. And so we really tried to lean in and work through all of that in his pace.

That's awesome. What an adjustment, though, to have your son home after how many years? Ten and a half years. He went in at about age 20, so he kind of grew up in prison. He got out when he was 31. Wow. But look at the faithfulness of the Lord. Listen, the Bible says in Jose, 215, I will transform the valley of trouble into a gateway of hope. Come on. And we felt like we were in the valley of trouble for so long. And now I feel like we're in the gateway of hope or at least being able to see that. And sometimes you might not see it this side of heaven, but he has let us be a part of that. And we're so grateful. Oh, we're so grateful. Well, we are rejoicing with you because we got to see parts of that

story as you shared with us. And that's because you're transparent, which we love in Bible teaching. So we thank you for that. So I'm going to jump in since you just came with Josea, you know, 26 seconds into the podcast. Come on. I'm just going to jump right in. For a person that, how long you've been doing ministry? 30 years this year.

I was about to guess 30 years.

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