Oh, come, oh, call me, Matthew.

Stories are important because they are meaningful, and they are meaningful because they are memorable, powerful, and they are personally connect us with each other.

In this podcast, we take names, faces, hopes, and dreams of people of all walks of life.

We are diverse with ages and races.

You will have the opportunity to hear these stories in their own words.

We believe your story and God's story will intersect with the stories of others.

God's story is revealed through scriptures.

Your story is revealed through experiences. Their story is revealed through experiences. Their story is

revealed in life events. Our hope is that through this podcast, we will recognize that God

uses every part of our stories, even the messy parts, to bring glory to himself, draw his children

close and call others into his family. This podcast is the

perfect intersection between your story and God's story. We believe you will leave here inspired,

encouraged, and challenged to share your story with the world. Welcome to the Scriptures and Stories

podcast with your host, Roshan Copeland.

Hey, God bless everybody. My name is Christina Ako. I'm from Chicago, Illinois. My parents are both Mexican.

They came from Mexico in about 1970s. Yeah, they met in Chicago. I grew up there in a very,

very urban area, very secular world, you know, where everything just seemed normal in my surroundings,

which are like gangs, drugs, prostitution. Like, I would see women on the street just,

you know, prostituting themselves and, like, searching for a way to get income. But we know, we all know that God doesn't call us to do that.

We are supposed to take care of our temple.

But besides all that, you know, with me as an individual, you know, I suffered a lot

because I didn't know of his word and know of his promises. I dabbled a lot into smoking weed.

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