Welcome to Wire Talk with Karen Stubbs, a podcast designed to encourage and

equip moms by answering your questions about motherhood, hopefully helping you

maintain your faithfulness to God while experiencing a peaceful life on your journey.

So hey, my name is Karen Stubbs and I am married to Greg.

We have been married for 30 years, August 2nd.

And we have four children, three girls, and one boy.

Kelsey's our oldest. She's 26.

Emily will be 24,

be 22, and Abby will be 19.

They're all getting ready to have birthdays.

And we live in Coming Georgia.

I started Birds on Wire Ministry to equip and encourage moms.

Whenever I graduated from college, Greg and I got married and we moved to Virginia Beach

and I was 10 hours away from family and

friends and whenever we started having our children I did all that by myself and he

was traveling and in the Navy and gone all the time and I just realized that being a mom was really really really hard and so whenever we moved back to Atlanta in 1999 I was surrounded by other young moms and started realizing that

they too were struggling in motherhood and now my kids were a little bit older

Kelsey was going into the fourth grade and I thought well you know what I could help

them out in the taller years like I've got that down you know down as much as you can

ever get down in the taller years.

But, and the ministry just sort of burst out of that desire in me to help moms.

I never really started off wanting to create a ministry, but God

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