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Faithful Motherhood: How MomQ is Helping Moms Thrive Spiritually With Candace Nassar · She Speaks Life - Christian Women, Strengthen Your Faith, Bible Study, Grow Spiritually In Christ

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Hey, welcome back to She Speaks Live.
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I just, I want you to show up. I hope you'll meet me there
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today. I have with me the founder of
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Mom Q, Candace Nassar. She is a very good friend of
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mine and has a heart for moms to grow in God's word.
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Mom Q is a ministry designed to support Christian moms in every
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area of their lives. After moving to Austin in 2012,
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she spent a decade teaching middle and high school students,
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including my own oldest son, Nathan, who took her accounting
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class. And I have to say, because of
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her, he absolutely fell in love with accounting and is now a
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successful accountant at EY. And so during the end of her
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teaching career, she had felt this call of God to step into
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full time ministry her to establish mom cue and mentoring
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and discipleship ministry that empowers moms to discover their
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God-given purpose and to build strong, faithful families.
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Of all the roles she has held, she said she believes that being
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a wife and mother is both the most rewarding and the most
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challenging. I agree.
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Amen to that. Candace is so passionate about
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equipping and encouraging moms and helps women grow in
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confidence and embrace their divine calling.
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And so if this sounds like something you want to join in
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your own community, look for the links below and the show notes.
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And she would love to chat with you.
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Hi Candace, welcome to She Speaks with Life.
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I am so happy you are here, my good friend.
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Coming on the podcast, this is going to be so fun.
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I am so excited. Thank you so much, Jamie.
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I'm trying to think when we first met, but this is it's been
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years now and you are very impressive with everything that
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I have seen you do. When I first met you, you were
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my son's accounting teacher and then I know God had crossed our
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paths numerous times and we bumped into each other in Target
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and you are sharing how you had retired from teaching and now
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doing the Mom Q ministry. You are the founder of Mom Cue
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Ministry, which is biblical wisdom and support for Christian
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moms. And I absolutely love it and so
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glad that you said yes to God to walk into this journey and we
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get to talk all about it. But before we do, I would love
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for you to share what is your favorite scripture verse and
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why? Because I know we can find out
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so much about our guests just by asking that one question.
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That is such a good question. And you know what?
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It's so hard to come come up with an answer to that question
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because there are so, so many scripture verses that God has
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used throughout my life. But I would have to go back to
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the verse that He gave me when I was baptized as a 34 year old
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long time ago, and that is Proverbs 3, five and six.
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own
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understanding, but in all your ways.
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Submit to Him and He will make your paths straight.
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And that has really been my life verse because I have always
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struggled with being trying to control everything.
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And I know so often I talk to so many moms and we all struggle
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with that and we want to control our husbands.
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We want to control our kids lives and their their successes
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and their failures and, and just even our own pain.
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Just everything the Lord has shown me over the years that he
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is trustworthy, he is faithful and I don't have to worry.
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I can surrender it all to, but let me tell you, I try to take
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it back a lot So so it is a constant process, but that verse
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has always, always ministered to me and I'm just so thankful.
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So good and I love that scripture verse too.
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It's one of my favorites. And, and you're right, that is a
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hard one to just leave at the feet of Jesus and not take it
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back. And just knowing that he's got
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our best and he's got something even better than we can imagine
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and that we just need to keep feeding ourselves with Scripture
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verses that tell us such as that.
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I know that that's a hard one to just be in obedience to every
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single day. So such a good spiritual truth
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there. And so let's just begin with
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your testimony. When did you find Christ?
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When did you accept them into your life?
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And just a brief overview of your faith journey.
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Yeah, I'm so excited to to share that because it actually leads
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right up to why I started Mom Q. And so I was a lost, struggling,
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and lonely young mom. I did not have a good role
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model. I had no idea how to be a wife
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and a mother. I I was seeking God, but I'd
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never really read the Bible. I tried to read it when I was a
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young teen and it made no sense. But I was in a neighborhood in
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Dallas, TX. I had a 19 year old daughter who
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was extremely strong willed and I felt like matter of fact my
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stepmother had purchased her T-shirt that said I may be too,
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but I run the house and and. That was the truth.
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And and so and so I was like, OK, I need help.
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We were new to this area in Dallas and I saw a neighborhood
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newsletter that advertised a Bible study for young moms,
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child care provided. And I was like, you know what,
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first of all, they, they had me at childcare provided, right?
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Because that just sounded incredible in those days.
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My husband traveled a lot and it just was, you know, a godsend.
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And, and I was curious. I was curious and little did I
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know that the Lord was drawing me.
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The Holy Spirit was drawing me in.
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But I went and they happened to be studying the book of John and
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I read that Jesus came and died for me.
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And I really never knew that. I never knew that I could have a
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personal relationship with him. I never knew that I was a
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Sinner, which I'm so prideful now, but I thought of sin as
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those really big things like adultery, murder, that kind of
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thing. And I didn't do that.
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How could I be a Sinner? But the leaders actually pulled
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me. I mean, we, we had lots of time,
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one-on-one, and they just poured into me and discipled me.
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And I'll never forget it was a day I'd had lunch with one of
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the leaders. And she said, I said, well, I
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just don't think I'm a Sinner. And she said, well, let me ask
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you this. Have you ever yelled at your
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husband? Have you ever been selfish?
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Have you ever gossiped? And when she said all those
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things, I was like, Oh, my gosh, yes.
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And so that was when I realized that I needed a Savior.
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And I literally pulled over to the side of the road on my drive
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home from that lunch and prayed to receive Jesus.
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And my life has never been the same.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I love. It and my husband eventually
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came to the Lord and then we raised all three of our kids in
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the faith in the church and they all still walk with Jesus.
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So it's it was generational impact those ladies had on my
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life and I've never forgotten it and I always wanted to pay that
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forward. That's so good.
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And that's so similar to my story of #1 the women's Bible
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study had babysitting, had daycare, they go into their own
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Sunday school, and #2 it was curiosity.
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It was the same thing as you. And that's where I found my
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personal relationship with the Lord, even though I accepted
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Jesus at such a young age at 5, but really didn't know, you
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know, what the foundations were really understanding it.
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And so I can totally relate to that testimony that you just
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shared. And so so so let's take you to,
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you know, you're accounting teacher for my son Nathan, and
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you're such an excellent teacher.
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You are his absolute favorite. And I know you guys still have a
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friendship there, which is so cool because now that Ernst and
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Young is an accountant. So you were you're the teacher
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that made that light bulb go on for him.
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And that's the greatest privilege a teacher could ever
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ask for. Yeah, I'm sure.
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I can just imagine. And so you had retired from
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teaching and then So what brought you on to be the founder
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of Mom? Q Where did you know share that
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testimony? Where did that?
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I know it came from the Lord, but how did it kind of hold?
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So as I was teaching, this was after, during and after COVID, I
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just start, I saw such a change in the young in the youth and
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the, my students and the level of anxiety and depression.
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And I talked to so many moms that were just so upset, so
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worried for their kids and they didn't know how to help them.
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And I was longing to share the gospel And I just was like, I
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want to help these moms. There's something, there's got
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to be something I can do. I would like to get into the
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family somehow. And I just started praying and I
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felt God leading me to to start a moms group and do what had
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been done for me. And as I began to look into
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different things that were out there, curriculums and other
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options, I couldn't find anything that gave me the vision
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that he had given me and that that was a really discipleship,
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which again, what was done for me.
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And so I, I just began to really pray and I was, I had no idea
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what the Lord was calling me to do.
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And then I had created a course as a teacher.
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I had created a course for our school district in finance and I
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just felt him saying, you can do this, you can create what you're
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looking for, what I've given you the heart for.
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And I was very petrified and had no idea how that would come
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about. It was one of those, hey, Lord,
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if that's what you're telling me to do, then that's what I'm
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going to try to do. And so I assembled some advisors
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from my church that I really respected in women's ministry
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and a children's director as well.
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And we started brainstorming and it came from.
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So the curriculum that we have all comes directly from what I
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experienced, the questions that I had as a young mom, topics
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about everything from how do I forgive people and how do I live
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in the Holy Spirit. I mean, we start off we we just
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talk about identity, how our identity is in Christ and trying
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to understand how as our society, we find our identity
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and all the wrong things. And just just that growth that I
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hope that when I know we're going to talk about in a little
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bit, but just trying to get moms from the beginning to a passion
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for Jesus. And maybe they already have a
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passion for Jesus, but we want it to grow even farther.
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And so that's that's how it came about.
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Yeah, I love that. And it's so crucial in those
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times because, I mean, you are just being stretched, you're
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being tested when you're a mom with young kids and you need
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that community, but you also need that biblical truth on how
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to parent well and just feeding yourself so that you are a
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better mom, a better wife, feeding yourself with the word.
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And so Speaking of that, what do you encourage these moms to
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cultivate that spiritual maturity to just get them to
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really take it in that, you know, you can be stronger as a
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mom and you know, can can do the daily things that is required
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when you are raising up young kids.
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You can do it well. How do you encourage them?
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Well, you're exactly right. I mean, it is it's a time when
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you feel so desperate and you can feel really alone, right and
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lost. And so it's the perfect time to
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reach into these moms life and we approach them holistically.
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And I think that's, you know, that's what you're getting at is
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we do parent, we talk about parenting.
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We actually have a whole series on biblical parenting, but we
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also talk about marriage and self-care because all those
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things. It's the holistic mom that you
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know God, he wants us all. He wants our whole heart.
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And so when we can help them see, you know, the taste and see
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that the Lord is good, when we can help them see that by
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leaning into him and developing that relationship with him,
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that's where our completion is going to come from, right?
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We're going to find the strength, we're going to find
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the rest. We're going to find the peace
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and we can only find it in him. And we're going to be better
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moms and we're going to be better wise.
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And so that's what we do. It really comes down to it.
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We talk a lot about the importance of being in the word
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and being in prayer. And we we have a teaching team
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and we share our own struggles that we had as well as today.
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I mean, let's face it, we're all still growing spiritually and
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we're going to do that until we are in the arms of Jesus.
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Really. I mean, we should be.
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And, and so that's really it's, it's a, it's a, it's a
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presentation that there is no better place to be than in the
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presence of the Lord. And when you do that and make
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that a discipline, then you can be the wife and mom he wants you
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to be. Yeah, that's so good.
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I mean, I'm a living testimony of that.
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You know, when I started those Bible study groups, I started a
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mom group and then I graduated out of that into a Bible study
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group once my kids got older. Just feeding yourself with God's
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truth. I just remember the mornings
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that I slept in got lazy, you know, missed it.
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And my goodness, it was just and and I think any mom listening
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with young kids can testify to this.
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Like they really test you. I mean, you get a little short
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temper. You know your patience is
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stretched then, and you know you need to feed yourself God's Word
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and to take your conversations to Him on a daily basis to
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receive that peace. For you.
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Know when those times come so that you can temper yourself and
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respond with patience and peace with your kids and respond with
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how Jesus would want you to respond, not your carnal flesh.
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Yeah. And you and you know, the other
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thing that we really talk about is, and I think this is what
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moms struggle with probably more today than anything is how to
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deal with mom guilt. And we see that that they don't
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know how to have compassion for themselves.
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And so we are going to make mistakes.
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You know, we're going to have those days where we fall down
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and treat our kids or our husbands poorly.
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But the key is knowing that we can confess that and we can make
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it right and how to do that and how to move on from that so that
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Satan doesn't continue to, you know, make us we don't want to
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live in shame, right? It's thing to have that guilt
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and confess it. That's another to live in shame.
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And so those are also some of the things we talk about and
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just empowering. I mean that really that's our
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mission statement that we empower moms to find their
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God-given purpose and build strong faith filled families.
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And so that's what that's everything we do is about.
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That so good. Yeah.
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That's a key point that you just brought up because identifying
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that the guilt and the shame, we know that's not from the Lord
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and it's the enemy that wants us to feel that way.
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And then that that guilt and shame just keeps you on that
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cycle. So I love that you point that
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out, that if we can identify it, it's just to be encouraged to
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change our ways, to repent and to understand like, yeah, I made
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a mistake. I'm sorry.
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We identified it, apologized and huge.
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It is huge. And I think, you know, over the
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years, remembering raising my kids up, it's like those times
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that I said sorry. There's so much respect in that.
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It's like the devil, the enemy wants you to feel like you're
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going to show you're weak, you're going to, you know, show
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like you're not a good mom to your kids.
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If you apologize. It's actually quite the
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opposite. When I said I'm sorry, my kids
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felt so respected and had so much respect for me.
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And it, it, it just spoke volumes to be able to say, hey,
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you know, because they want to see that you're real, you're a
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mom. They look at you as the
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authority, as the role model and they should.
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And to see the humanness side of you of saying, hey, I messed up.
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I'm so sorry. That just makes them even more,
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I don't know, closer to you. There's a bond there.
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Makes it even more. You're a real person, not just,
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you know, this disciplinary person in my life.
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Absolutely. I could not agree more.
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I mean, many, many times I've apologized to my kids and and
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I'm they're all grown and adults and I'm having a grandbaby like
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you soon. I'm still apologizing to my
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adult children to this day and like especially it's it's hard
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as empty nesters and we transition.
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I know your listeners are come from all different stages of
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life, but parenting adults is really hard too.
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And but my relationship with my kids is so strong.
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They call me, I mean, I, my two sons, not as much, but my
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daughter calls me almost every day.
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And, and we're always talking with the boys and it's just,
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it's super precious. And I think that you're right.
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You had mentioned the word respect.
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And I think that when we can handle things biblically and
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model exactly what Jesus did as much as possible, we're going to
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mess up. But when we can do those things,
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they're going to see that faith being real and alive and not
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hypocritical and deterging and debunk, you know, whatever all
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those words are that's happening today.
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So. Yeah, deconstructing.
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Yeah, agree. OK.
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So part of Mom Q is your mentorship program that's
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integrated in the community, in the videos, in the curriculum as
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you guys meet. I believe you have a mentor mom
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at every table, which is so amazing.
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I remember I had that also. And it's just so good to have
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somebody who has gone before you and it's seasoned and can tell
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you what they experienced or what didn't work for them or
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this is, you know the right way or this is the way I wish I
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would have done things. So share more on what Mom Q
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offers and that. Yeah.
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So that that was because those women discipled me.
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That was a key thing that I wanted to build in is is an
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older mom. It's a step or, you know,
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however many years ahead. And we also have a Co, we have a
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Co leader model. So there's always, we're always
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trying to raise up leaders. But the mentor mom is really
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going to build personal relationships with each member
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of their group. And then the group also is
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building personal relationships within it.
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So community is the goal, authentic, connected community
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where you're seeing, where there's a message you're being
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poured into with the word, and then the bulk of the time is in
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the groups where you're sharing. We encourage authenticity in a
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big way. We want moms to really open up
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about their struggles and their victories because it's really,
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it's in the struggles, hearing other people's struggles and how
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they came through it. That's where we can really see
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the power of Jesus, right? So yes, so we have and, and it's
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really based on Titus 2-3 and five where older women are
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instructed to teach and encourage younger women and
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godliness. And really that's not optional.
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It's something that, you know, and this verse gives us 2
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perspectives, right? That we as older moms, it's a
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biblical model for us to pour into the younger generation.
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It's also showing that the younger generation is, well,
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they have something to teach us always, but that they can be
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open to that and they need that kind of thing because we, if
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they're, I, I've often had moms tell me, you know, I've been in
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groups where it's just, we're all the same age and we're
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trying to lead each other in Bible study and they get stuck
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in the same thinking, right? And it, and because they don't
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have that wisdom and experience. So, so that really is to have an
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older mom that has that heart to just love and encourage and
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support. There's no judgment.
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I mean, that's a huge thing that we we instill is we don't want
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to judge each other because we're all at different places in
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our walk and different places in our growth of spiritual
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maturity, but we want to support each other.
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And so that's what the mentor is there to do, is to guide and
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facilitate and help the moms to just see that really that love
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in that community is what's going to take them through
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whatever it is they're going through, help a ton.
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I love that you brought up the no judgment rule because there's
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so much of that going on. I mean, even just hearing these
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young moms judging each other how they're going to deliver
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their baby, you know, if they're like pro at home, you know, or
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pro hospital, it's like there's two different sides to how
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you're even going to deliver a baby.
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I mean, that's how it I think can begin and start is just what
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are you choosing and then judging each other based on what
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you're choosing depending on what you believe is good.
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And so it's just, yeah, it is funny to hear this.
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Yeah, well, we, we try to, we try to encourage them that we,
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we don't have to be right. You know, we can have different
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opinions and different perspectives, and really it all
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comes back to what is truth, what is biblical.
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If it's not something that's biblically mandated, then you
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can have your opinion. We're not, you know, we're going
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to just continue to love each other.
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And one of our motto, one of our values is to bear one another's
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burdens, prepare meals, we visit, take care of the kids.
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We do, you know, whatever we need to be doing to bear each
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other's burdens. And, and just it's love.
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It is all about loving each other.
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And we, if we're judging each other and we're comparing too, I
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mean, that's another thing that moms do so often, especially
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because of social media, is we look and we think, oh, well, she
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has it better or that why can't I be like that?
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Just reminding them that, you know, God created every one of
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us, very unique, very special. We are fearfully and wonderfully
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made. And we don't need to compare
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ourselves to others because God has the standard.
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He's the only one we compare ourselves to.
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And he is there ready to forgive us and be compassionate to us no
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matter what we've done. So we don't need to live, you
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know, in that kind of bondage. And so all of those things are
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part of an older, wiser mom because at my age, I'm not doing
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that so much anymore. I'm not, I'm not trolling and
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looking and thinking, I wish I had this or that.
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I mean, the God has done a lot of work in me, right?
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That's part of been part of my journey.
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But but yeah, we it's, it's no matter where you are in your
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faith, you can learn from someone and you can also pour
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into someone else. And so that's being a mentor
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pours into you being the mentee you're receiving that.
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And then you can pour into others at some point, just like
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it. It's been done for me.
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Yeah, that's right. I love it.
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It just keeps going. Yeah, it's, it's really, it's,
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it's generational impact. It really it that's what it is.
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So yeah, cuz I shared how that's how you know my whole stories.
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Yeah. Real quick, what do you think
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would be the biggest struggle these moms are going through
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that you see? Yeah, well, I shared earlier mom
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guilt. I think the other one would just
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be the a lot of people are struggling in their marriages.
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I see that so, so common because the world, the culture, it just
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it lies to us. You know, it tells us that you
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deserve that. If you're not being treated a
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certain way or certain things aren't happening that you know,
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you can look at some, you know that there's options and, and
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it's just, I think I think we don't understand today that.
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And one of our favorite sayings is based on Gary Thomas's book
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the sacred marriage is marriage is to make us holy, not happy.
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And so we we do, we have several Siri not serious modules,
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lessons about marriage and a lot of conversation, But we also try
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to be very sensitive to the single mom or even the widow.
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There are young moms that are widows and we, we also want to
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make it clear that you don't have to be married to have
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peace, that God can be your father.
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But but certainly marriage is a part of a sanctification.
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And we try to encourage them to handle things in a biblical,
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godly way. And it, it's, it's life
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changing. I mean, we have seen so much
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life change. Yeah, so good.
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Well, I know you've got numerous testimonies because you put on a
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yearly, you know, mom cue annual celebration.
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And I know you've brought up some testimonials of what it's
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done. And then through moms and I
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think one of them mentioned her marriage.
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And, you know, because it's not just the mom, you know, two
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people have the baby right here, right?
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And so and so, you know, just like the importance of a mother,
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so is the father. And so we can take a toll on
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your on your marriage if you're not standing on a firm
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foundation. And otherwise you're just going
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to be the house on the sand and it's going to be shaky.
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Yeah. And the.
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The other thing I didn't I, I should have mentioned too is
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just isolation. We, we see moms and that's a
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that's a epidemic in our whole culture and society in our
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country is, is isolation and loneliness.
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And so that's one of the things that we stress is that when
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you're in community, when you're supporting each other, that you
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have that it's a it's something that God designed us for.
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We are designed for relationships.
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And if we're isolating ourselves and thinking we can do it by
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ourselves, that we don't need church, we don't need others,
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that is going to, I mean, honestly, that's what when Satan
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can get us isolated alone, that's when he attacks.
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So we we really, so we want that's part of our whole design
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is this community support, the mentors, the teaching and it all
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comes together in the secret sauce.
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Really. That just is life changing.
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And you talked about the, the fundraiser and the testimonials
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that we get. I've had so many husbands come
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up to me and say, you know, my wife when she comes home and I
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know she's been to mom. Q She's just a nicer person or
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you know. Or or they're talking.
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About it at home, you know, or the husband will say, what did
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you learn today at Mom Q You know, so and so it's a beautiful
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thing for the family. It's so good because like Mom Q
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is tackling all arenas, every aspect of your life.
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I mean, you're bringing in God's word, you're tackling some
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topics that everyone's going through, struggling, and then
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coming together as a community for that support.
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Oh, I mean, every mom is just getting so filled up.
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And when we can get filled up like you're saying, then it's so
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much easier for us to respond out that overflow and pour out.
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Yes. And our guests, it's critical.
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It's critical. I mean, again, God designed us
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for relationships and we need to be in each other's lives and we
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need to have accountability and truth tellers and all those
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things. And that's how we grow, and
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that's how we are able to be the wife and mother God wants us to
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be. That's right, OK, at the end I
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love for my guest here for you to share a take away, something
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that the listener can ponder on or take action in.
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So I would say, well, I kind of came up with a verse and I think
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that it encapsulates a lot of what we've talked today.
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And that is Colossians 128 through 29 where Paul is talking
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to the church at Colossae and he says him we proclaim warning
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everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom that we may
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present everyone one mature in Christ for this I toil
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struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within
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me. I feel like this verse just it
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speaks to the importance of us growing spiritually, becoming
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more like Christ and also the effort that we need to put out
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to help others grow in spiritual maturity.
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And so I would just really encourage moms to think about
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what it is that you can do to take your next step to grow in
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Jesus and to become more Christ like, whatever that is.
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I mean, there's there's spiritual disciplines, there's
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lots of books that can help you with that, whether it is getting
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more into the word or spending more time in prayer or silence
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and solitude. Those are things that I know it
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seems really hard for a mom. But again, it's filling our cup.
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And when we can sit with God and just allow him to pour into us,
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that is another level of regeneration and and rest.
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So all those spiritual disciplines, journaling, I know
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you have a beautiful journal, Jamie.
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And so all of those things, those spiritual disciplines are
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important steps and habits really that we need to practice
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in, in our Christian life. And so that's what I would
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encourage. It's just a take away is to
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think what's your next step? Whatever it is that you need to
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do, pray about it. Ask God to show you what that
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is, what, what's maybe a discipline you can add.
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Maybe you need community, maybe you need to seek out mentorship,
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or maybe you need to become a mentor.
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And that is something that Mom Q can certainly help with.
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So because I know a lot of moms get to a certain age when their
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kids are gone and they're like, OK, well, I don't have a purpose
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now. Well, yes, you do.
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You do have a God-given purpose and that's supporting to the
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younger generation. So, so yeah, that's that's what
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I would say. So good, yes, sign up for mom Q
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whether you're a mom with littles or you are just in that
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stage where you've got grown-ups now and like you said, you could
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be a mentor for somebody else. And so how do they get involved?
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How can they, you know, whether it's starting their own group
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themselves or getting the church to do a group?
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Yeah. What do you have there?
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So on our website, weactuallyhaveacontactpageso@momq.org
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is our website and just go to the contact page and send us and
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shoot us an e-mail and we will respond.
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We can set you up with, if you're an individual that's
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looking to mentor younger moms, we can set you up with our
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curriculum. We have, we actually have a
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training going on this summer, August the 2nd here in Austin,
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and that's going to be on our website as well.
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And so those are options there. We also have Instagram.
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You can follow us on Instagram, Graham or DM us.
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It's if it, if you're interested in bringing it to your church,
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that is a huge way to build a great community there.
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And we would love to help you with that.
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So reach out to us. Just let us know whether you
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would like and we can go to the church and find the pastor
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that's in charge, I guess of something like this.
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And so whatever, wherever you want to plug in, we can be there
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for you. Yeah, because there's videos and
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you can hold one at your home as well.
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Right. That's right.
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Yeah. And then I also have a podcast
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called Mom Q and they can find me there and listen.
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That's also spiritual encouragement and wisdom.
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And so we have blogs and those are also really encouraging
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resources about marriage, parenting and self-care.
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Yeah, so good. You guys have everything.
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Love it all in a nice package and I love everything that
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you're doing. Candace, thank you so much for
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coming on here and sharing mom Cute ministry with us.
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Thank you so much, Jamie. It's been such a pleasure.
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Thank you so much for listening today, and I trust that God has
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encouraged you through this story.
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your own life story.