2023-03-26 at 09.39.10

, [00:00:00] welcome Summit Church. Welcome church online.

So we are celebrating International Women's Month. And so if you know anything about me, I get amazing things at the last minute. And I saw we pastor and I were watching something and we saw a quote and it was by Albert Einstein and he's, he says that creativity is intelligent, having fun. So I am so intelligent.

I am the most incredible and intelligent woman I know. And however with that being said so, and, and another thought came to me is that I didn't want to put my urgency on others to make it their what was the word that the Lord gave me? It was my urgency and I didn't want it to make it your e.

Right. So like it was, it was urgent. Once I got the idea, it was like, oh, who can I call? Who can I get this? But I did have some amazing people that responded [00:01:00] to my urgency, and I wanna say thank you in advance for making my urgency, your emergency. And so today we're gonna just celebrate some amazing women.

And we're all amazing because God has made us all so individually unique, and I love that about our father. And then I, I then, so this I have, I'm big on words. I love words, I love quotes. And so these three plaques that are up here or wall hangings one says, as you can make, you may be able to see it.

Never, never, never give up. Right? And this one I really, really love. And it says, don't compare yourself to others. There is no comparisons between the sun and the moon. They both shine. Ah, I love that. Or they have their own light is what it says. That was my words. They have their own light. And isn't that true about each and every one of.

We have [00:02:00] our own light, we have our own purpose, and we are designed to do what God has created us to do. And so, as we know, this month of March has been designated on the calendar as International Women's Month. And so can we have some little light? This looks really, really dark. Oh, I wanna see the beautiful faces and smiles.

I can see the teeth. Yes, yes, yes. And so I, and I may get a little emotional, but don't be moved. It's just me. Like when you are full, it's like a sponge. When a sponge has a lot going on and full and soaked, it's just something's gotta come out and it's woo and it's just like that. So here I go. Oh Lord.

Okay, Carla, get it together. So anyway, so we are, we're involving both campus and we, as pastor said, when we are reading and you'll see a beautiful picture of who we're talking about from the indie campus. And so with something else I [00:03:00] wanted to say. So, so what's gonna happen is when as you know, so next year, the Lord is so awesome, he right where we are.

And so what he, what I got then was like, okay, so now Carla, you know, you wanna do this again. So I'm giving you a year notice now. We are doing it next year. All right? And so there will be an opportunity for any of you to say, I wanna be a part of it. So now we can allow your creativity and your intelligence to be a part of something huge.

So we'll do it the whole month. How about that? Yes, I'm excited too. I'm glad you are. So, all right, so we're gonna get going. And so, so what your workout's gonna be gyra is that you're gonna move this up and down in this as well. Okay? So, so you can move it now. And so our first person that we are going to acknowledge, she likes to be behind the, the well, she says she's the background or whatever.

I don't know what kind of words she want to [00:04:00] use, but I don't think it's true, but it's okay if she believes that. But so Miss Kitty has been here from the inception of this ministry and I truly, truly love her and honor her. And so she's gonna come and I'm gonna get my iPad. She's gonna come have a seat.

I have her mic, actually, I got your mic. And so our goal today, there you go, is to just they're gonna share about them and then what the word of God, the grace message of however you wanna share it, has done for you. But tell 'em. Okay. Oh, you're on. He's a year. Got that. Alright. As Miss Car said that, you know, we've been here since like 1984.

Yeah. The ministry. Something like that. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So while pastor Miss Car was in, in Rema [00:05:00] Bible College and everything, we were still praying with a couple in our in our area. And so while they were in school and everything, they got married real quick before Yeah. They was able to go to college you know, to Rema Bible College.

But over the years, what I can say, you know, I'm skipping forward and everything, but Pastor and Miss Carla are the same from day one. Once we met them and we got, you know, a part of them in our lives and everything, they haven't changed. Now you're talking about a good 40 years because my sons are about 40.

What are they? 47, 46 and 47 like that. Wow. 46 and 44. Okay. You can tell I don't keep up, but any, anyway, but it's been that, that length of time. Wow. So, To it [00:06:00] is really like a marriage. Mm-hmm. That's what it's been like. And so when we started with them in the ministry, we all grew up together. Yeah. At the same time.

And so I me and Tracy was talking about this and it's like, I really don't wanna be involved in a ministry where there's no consistency. Mm. Mm-hmm. And so, pastor Miss Carla, what you see is what you get. So it's like, this is not an Android up here. And then they go home and they turn into humans. Okay.

No. That's, that's not happening. So for them, you see what you get. And so they have not, they're like, God, they change. Not, they're the same yesterday, today, and forever. And so we appreciate that. Or we wouldn't have been here, we would've left y'all a long time ago.

Well, I'm glad to know that. Right. Thank you. There you go. But what I do wanna share real quick is that when I go back and I look at James chapter two, verse 21, 22, 23, it's in [00:07:00] reference also for Genesis 22. Okay? Mm-hmm. Verses I think 13 and 14. But what I'm getting to is that in verse 21, it talks about where Abraham Okay, Abraham.

He put his will aside. He wanted to obey the will of the father. And what he did was God had asked him to sacrifice his son Isaac on the altar. And you know, we make sacrifices 24 7 in our lives and we'll continue to make sacrifices. But during that time, he obeyed. And so what God says, like, okay, the angel of the Lord came down and said, stop.

You know, cuz Abraham was getting ready to pick up that knife and think about that with your own child. He was getting ready to pick up that knife and he was getting ready to sacrifice Isaac. And then the angel of the Lord said, don't stop. Stop sa stop. You don't have to do that because I have a [00:08:00] ram in the bushes for you.

And he will take the place of the sacrifice of your son. So you don't have to do that. And he said, yeah, and by the way, because you were obedient to me and you believe in me and you love me, guess what? I'm gonna make you my friend. This is the part that I love that God considers us his friend. Mm mm-hmm.

Now think about that the person and the whole universe considers us his friend. Mm-hmm. All right, miss Gloria, I need you. Okay. Alright. Cause it's like for, I told her, I said I love it, you know, when she is involved. But the whole point is, is that whenever you are lonely, whenever you are alone, you think you're alone.

Whenever you're having challenges, whenever it seems like I don't have anybody else, no relatives, no friends, whatever. Mm-hmm. You have [00:09:00] a friend. Yeah. Now, you may already, and when you've accept him as Lord and saving your life, you have a friend that he's closer than your a brother. Yeah. I mean, he's gonna stick closer to you if you have not made him your friend yet.

Hey, he's, he's waiting. Mm-hmm. Okay. Mm-hmm. So for us, what we can do is realize is that a friend is intimate. A friend bonds with you. A friend is close. God is not looking for perfect people. Mm-hmm. He's looking for people that are persistent, come on and consistent. Mm-hmm. That they have a love for him.

Yeah. Because, I mean, yeah. He's our redeemer. He's, he's our ReSTOR and all the mother a advents about you, but I, the part I like about Jesus. Yeah. He's my friend. He loves him. So Kitty. Yeah. And Kitty loves him. Yeah. That is my, that is my best bud. Okay. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Father, son, holy Spirit and everything. Yeah.

[00:10:00] So, one thing I wanna leave with you is, Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Mm-hmm. Look full in his wonderful faith. Yes. Amen. And the things honor earth will grow strangely di in the life of his glory and grace. Hmm. And the things honor earth Yes. Will grow strange. Lee di I can't see all those troubles anymore.

Mm-hmm. In the light of his glory and grace. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Well, thank you. Praise God. Oh, love you. [00:11:00] Love you. Amen. Thank you. All right. Thank you Miss Kitty. So wow, I miss her voice. That was beautiful. So now we're going to acknowledge one of our indie ladies. And so this would be miss Nita.

And so yes, you can pull that back up. And I appreciate so much miss Nita. She holds it down for us in the indie campus. And we're just grateful. Go ahead and give her, give her a hand. And they're, yes, yes, yes. And she's actually the the individuals are standing. They're maybe, or, or maybe not standing since they're not here with you, you can't see them physically, but we have beautiful pictures of them.

And so you know, Anita's just full of joy. She's full of just always smiling and always laughing. There's not a moment I don't think that she stops laughing about something. And [00:12:00] so I have the honor of reading this concerning her. Juanita Marie Barkstell. Reg Juanita, Anita is what we call her, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and spent her childhood with grandparents and focused on church, who focused on church.

Therefore, she and her older sister sang duets practically every Sunday. They also groomed her to speak by having the welcome address or giving the welcome address to visitors. God was directing her path because as an adult, her career focused on speak. And she is still singing. Today, she is the mother of three children, two in heaven, and one son in Nashville, Tennessee, [00:13:00] and grandmother of one Juanita has been a part of Summit Church since the fruition of Pastor Al's.

Desire for a campus in Indianapolis. Married to Pastor Gary for 29 years. She supports him as campus pastor and as campus pastors, and also leads the praise and worship team. Amen. Amen. Amen. I, my place, Juanita says, the true gospel of grace is helping her to become who God called her to be. As she receives the understanding of grace, she has been able to give more grace and compassion to others and to herself.

She finds [00:14:00] herself to be more relaxed and forgiving and less of a perfectionist. She says she is having, and this is in bold, dark letters. Fun and the best is yet to come. Let's give it up for Juanita. That is awesome. Yes, yes, yes. The best is yet to come. Amen. All right, well let's keep going. Let's continue to, to just you hear from these o other amazing ladies.

And so next we have up coming to the stage. Nicole King. Let's give it up for Nicole.

All right. Thank you, Jare. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Good. Yes. You look lovely. Thank you. Yes, thank you. So go ahead and have your way and I'm gonna inter [00:15:00] I'm gonna interact with you. Okay. So who are you? I am Nicole King and I have been at the church. Pull your mic up. Okay. I have been at Summit for 26 years.

Mm-hmm. I started back in 1997 and I been coming, I started off in a touch group as a matter of fact, and I came in through a awesome lady named Hermina Clark. So she saw how I was, we worked together at Dana. She saw how I was at Dana and she probably said, this girl needs help, so let me invite her to something.

So she invited me to her touch group and I've been coming ever since. And that changed my life. And then I just went through the different levels summit we're at and grace just really set it off. But before then, I met my husband, Jimmy King at Summit. Woo. I met him [00:16:00] here and next month in May we will be married for 15 years.

Grace, God. Amen. So that is very exciting. And then I didn't like Dana cause I didn't like working in the factory. So Miss Carla had a women's group and I said, well, I need to get out of there. So, Miss Carla prayed for me and believe in God that I would start a daycare and that daycare has been going for 23 years now.

Wow. God is good. And I have kids at my daycare now. Their parents used to go to the daycare and I have two assistant twins at my daycare. They used to go to the daycare. So it's just just awesome and, but I would really wanna pick up on the grace that's just been when Pastor first started talking about Grace years ago, I was just like, well, I don't know what he is talking about, but I'm still gonna come and, you know, and I just, I was already [00:17:00] so rooted and grounded in the church, nothing could change it.

So I was like, okay. And then, you know, it just really what got me on to really clicking in on Grace was a lady named Connie Whitter and I just start going, I would travel by myself and go to her conferences, just listening, just getting the word. Just getting it and getting it. And I just have to tell you guys last year, 2022, it's not gonna stop.

But that was one of the best years of my life regarding. Mm. And I tell you what, I graced it out. Graced it out. Yes. From just everything. The biggest thing I have to say about gracing it out was businesses, multiple businesses. Multiple businesses. Yes. I started up salons. I have two salons here in town.

Great. Yeah. And I just collect rent. I don't care about doing hair, I don't care about eyebrows. I got lash tax, I got micro blades. I didn't even know what half the stuff was. I was looking it up. [00:18:00] Yeah. You come in, you just pay rent. I don't care. I just set the nice atmosphere, just rental properties just blowing up.

And that's all based on the grace. And from the grace, the biggest thing was instead of I would, I'm, now I know what to do. Mm. But before it was like, Lord, what am I going to do? Yeah. You know? Good. So just change my mindset and resting more instead of trying and trying. Mm-hmm. So instead of trying, I just receive.

Mm-hmm. I just receive, that's Nicole because I already got it. Yeah. From the finished work of God. That's good. So no more trying. Mm-hmm. I just receive it. And when I receive it, just, people just start coming up. Just from the rentals just coming up and I'm. Eating popcorn, watching tv. Oh yeah. There's another up.

There's another person up. There's another, cuz I receive it. Yeah. It's not me trying to do it. Mm-hmm. Because that was the hardest challenge of me [00:19:00] just trying, okay, let me do it. What am I gonna do? Let me call this person. I leave people alone. Mm-hmm. And the biggest thing with Grace is, That's helped me so much because I'm very direct.

I'm the opposite of my husband. He's very passive, and I'm strong-willed. I'm just like, go get her. I put that on the back of my license plate, go get her. So if people come at me wrong in the wrong way, especially when they're calling me or texting me, oh, I'm texting all night. I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna get you.

You know? But with. I'm like, I don't text them back. I don't call them back. I let them go off on me. And in the beginning it was tough. Cause I was looking at the phone like, I'm gonna get you. Then I'm like, Nope. Grace, who am I? Who am I? I don't defend myself to nobody. Yeah. Because I'm already approved.

Yeah. Therefore, since, since I'm already approved and accepted by God, they can talk all that talk. Yeah. And they can say, I'm not returning a text. And I even said to my husband, I said, I didn't even go back at that [00:20:00] person to death. Wow. And and he's even surprised. And he is even seeing, even the kids at my daycare, they're like, if they drop and break something on the floor, they're all scared.

Even the other kids scared for the kids. Now I just get up the, get the broom and sweep it up and smile. And I say, I love you kid. And they're looking at me like, wow. They're probably like, thank God for grace. Yeah. That's awesome Nicole. And I love it. And it, and it also sets you up too, because you're such a giver.

Thank you. And you just, you know, and it just puts you in a bigger position to be in a, a giver. And one business that you didn't speak of is rentals. Yes. Yeah. And God has just blessed you tremendously and that you've started to just believe and receive. Yes. Yeah. With the, and it just comes and comes. I just bought all these houses last year and I'm like, okay, yeah, I'll get that one.

I'll get that. Just being a blessing to people. Mm-hmm. And I have people from coming out of town like today at eight o'clock at. Tonight. I [00:21:00] got people coming in out of town to get 'em just, just out the loop. They're just coming out the woodwork. So praise God. It's all God. And I give them praise and glory.

And I don't think if I didn't have grace, none of that would happen. Just, just that. Receiving. Yeah, just receiving, learning how to receive because you, like I'm a goal setter and I write stuff down. I'm very anal, but it's still nothing what God has it. It's, it's exceeded what I did. I'm like, God, I would never even thought of that.

Yeah. Who would think of just doing some salons for passive it who, you know, I don't do any of, but it's God. Yeah. It's just God. Like, this is how you do it, this is how you do it. And I'm like, I would've never thought of that. That is God. And just receiving from him. Praise God. Amen. Yeah. That speaks to creativity.

Yes. Right? Yes. And it's our excellence having, or intelligence having fun. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. I love the trip and I just, nothing but the best for me. And you guys haven't seen nothing yet. Praise God. [00:22:00] All right, we'll give it up for Nicole. Amen. Woohoo. Oh, okay. Thank you. All right. So I'm, I'm getting all my signals from my text messages and then my, my staff.

I love it. Okay. You gonna give that to Allie? Okay. Thank you. Okay. I'm working out this, you know, my own TV show, so just vibe with me while I vibe. Yay. So next we have a beautiful Allison jury, so hey Allie. Hi. And I have some notes on my phone because I might get distracted. That happens sometimes. That color looks good on you, by the way.

Thank you. Thanks. Yeah, that's a great color. My husband Doug and I have been married for, it'll be 22 years this year. Awesome. And we're Woohoo. And this summer it will be 20 years that we've been here at Summit. Wow. Because our daughter was born in 2003 and we kind of, we had visited a couple [00:23:00] times through our business.

We knew three separate couples that went here, so we had visited Summit off and on, mm-hmm. And always completely touched by the message and just, it was a, just a different experience than we were used to. And, you know, Doug was raised in a Catholic church, but like, CRE Easter Catholics. Mm-hmm. Like go on Christmas and Easter with a family, that type of thing.

Kinda that. And I was raised Lutheran Lutheran private school all the way through eighth grade and then into a public for high school. But so we had a lot to unlearn, really a lot of religion to cast off and work more toward relationship. Personal relationship with Christ, which we got right from the get-go.

You know, that, that week we prayed and we've prayed this a couple times through our marriage, like, okay, we have this decision to make God please make it obvious for us. Okay. Because we are both overthinkers and Okay. So we did that and we attended with our newborn daughter mm-hmm. One week. And the message was finding [00:24:00] the right church for your family.

Wow. And we literally just went down the checklist and it was like, yep, yep, yep. Okay. I guess we're switching churches. We had been going to a different church you know, 15 minutes away or so, but yeah. So that's how we got our start here. Okay. Regarding the grace message specifically I'm a homeschool parent, so I have three kids, Doug, two, we are homeschool parents.

He takes a pretty active role with working with them and helping them through different things kids need to learn, be successful in life, and I so appreciate that about him. That's not something I ever would have thought was in my story. Like I didn't ever see myself as a homeschooling anything because, you know, when I was growing up, the homeschoolers were weird.

So I'm like, I don't want any part of that. So just saying not all of 'em, but you know, they were different. So Doug had a lot of belief in me being able to stay at home and our daughter had some learning struggles early on and it became clear [00:25:00] that that would probably be the best fit, at least starting out Yeah.

Would be the best fit to help her one-on-one. Mm-hmm. And we started and never looked back and Wow. So she's gonna be 20 this year also. Mm. And then Dawson, our middle one is 16 and Corbin, the baby's 14 and they're just, I'm learning right along with them. Yeah. I call myself a recovering approval addict, other people, but the grace message has helped me, you know, find my identity and who Christ made me to be and what he's done for me and Grace, which has helped me show grace to my husband, to my kids.

Mm-hmm. Also very type A personality like Nicole said, like, you know, I am gonna be direct and I say what I mean, I mean what I say. Mm-hmm. If I ever tell you something, you can take it to the bank. Mm-hmm. I don't mince words. I don't, I'm not rude. I mean, I can be, I can be. Yeah. But I just feel like if everybody did that, how much better would the world be?

Okay. [00:26:00] Sometimes, you know, just tell the truth. But anyway so he showed a lot of belief in me being able to homeschool the kids and we had started our own business by that point on the side and we thought, well, that's, money can come in through that. And that's kind of. Make income at will with that and different seasons of our life, you know, it's ebbed and flowed and kind of fit where we needed it to for what season we're in.

But the calling to be homeschooled parents to our kids has made our family something. I don't, I, it way blows away anything I ever imagined. I didn't see myself as being a parent. I didn't see myself as getting married and having kids at one point. Mm-hmm. Because my family with my parents kind of fell apart and it was very traumatic and I didn't wanna set myself up to be hurt that way.

Yeah. So of course then Doug comes along and I'm like, well, what else can I do? But Mary didn't have his kids, so that was the end of that. Yeah. But the, the kids are close. They are each other's best friends. They [00:27:00] fight, they're siblings. Yeah. They're very different personalities from each other. So there's that too.

But I, you just can't put a price on the close-knit family unit we have and it's, it's all God. Yeah. He showed us, that was his plan for us being able to originally to help through some of those learning struggles, but then they get to lean on each other. They get to learn from each other. Yeah. They're each other's best friends and it's incredible.

That's awesome. And so I, I learned you know, comparisons the thief of joy, right? Mm-hmm. That's. My two biggest things when I'm asked to speak in a homeschool situation or, you know, cuz you know, being in that world for so many years now I realize now I'm one of these people being asked to Yeah.

Speak for things. Yeah. And it's very humbling because in the beginning of my journey I put those people on a pedestal. Okay. And just getting to the point and realizing they're just normal people that have just been doing it longer. It's humbling realizing that and that [00:28:00] you really shouldn't put people on a pedestal that's so much pressure to them.

Mm-hmm. I think showing other people grace is keeping them on your level because nobody's better than another or worse good than another. That's so good. Also that quote about the moon and the sun and the Yeah. Okay. Kind of, but the moon reflects the sunlight. Ah. And so to me, I just got this I was thinking, putting together some thoughts that I haven't looked at my notes at all, but when we do show our creativity and our differences mm-hmm.

And how when we all come together, we're so much stronger because we can glean from each other. If we have an open heart to, you know, to be receptive we reflect the sun's light, right? Mm-hmm. We reflect the light mm-hmm. From the sun. Mm-hmm. We reflect, we have our Yeah. Our own kind of reflection of it.

But it's all the light from saw the light from the sun, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I love that. Mm-hmm. That was really, yeah. That's great. Yeah. One, one question. So how were you able to apply or the grace message in your homeschooling? [00:29:00] In what way? So definitely not finding, you know, not finding my identity in things my husband or my children might say or do.

Not finding my identity in well-behaved children. Mm-hmm. They've been taught right from wrong and they know, but they're humans and they're gonna make mistakes just like I make mistakes. Mm-hmm. And Grace again, we're all, I mean, yes, I, we're their parents and we're in authority, but we are together.

Mm-hmm. And we are not above or below each other. Mm-hmm. And when I mess up, I apologize. My kids have heard me apologize a lot. Mm-hmm. Because I do tend to fly off the, you know better as I've gotten more and more revelation with grace. I a lot of the time and, and I was talking to Nicole about this too, because, you know, how long, how many years has it been now pastor had this revelation of grace and started sharing it with us all.

It's not something you get like all at once. It's coming in waves. Yeah. And there's just like fresh revelation. Mm-hmm. Almost weekly. Yeah. Like, we're hearing these messages and when he was talking about not depending [00:30:00] on your logic, not depending on your emotions, but mm-hmm. Being spirit led. Yeah.

I know, I've heard being spirit led before. Mm-hmm. My logic, I want to figure it out. I want to read all I can. Mm-hmm. And I wanna logic something out and figure out my problems. Right. Yeah. And I think moms tend to do that anyway. That's kind of a, you know, we're like running the household, doing our thing.

So Grace has shown me that I don't need, I do know what to do. Like pester says, yeah, we know what to do. Yeah. Like, just this Holy Spirit is expert in all things. He's with us all the time. Ask him. Yeah. And so when little things come up and I'm missing it, and my kids have been the ones that have taught me Uhhuh a lot of the time, they will fly off the, you know, fly off the handle and start, what am I supposed to do?

What am I supposed to do? I remember distinctly one time my daughter just kind of meekly said, I think she was probably like 12 or 13 at the time. She said, have you tried praying?

Well, no, because we're figuring it out mode. Right. You know, as parents and stuff. But we can [00:31:00] learn from anybody. We can learn from each other, let our light shine and yeah. Clean from each other. So. Well, I commend you as you know, doing your homeschooling and, and just, you know, staying in the, staying in the work, staying in the game, you know, work as in doing that.

And so we celebrate you. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Let's give it up for Allie. You can put the mic on. Woohoo, Allison. All right. We're gonna keep it going. And so next we are having here an amazing Dawn Roseman. And we're gonna, we'll keep the platform or the podium down JIRA. I don't wanna overwork you, but No, my staff said to leave it down so I obey.

So, so come on over, please. First. And so this is none other than the Dawn Roseman. Are we doing Chris? Yes. So Dawn will also first read from someone from the indie campus and then we turn it over to herself. So, oh, [00:32:00] I have it. You have it? I have it unless you want me to bring it up. I'm barn it.

I didn't know if I, okay. I know. So, but no, you, you do what you do. Take your time. You're fine. So you guys, how you doing out there? Everybody good? You having a good time? You like receiving and hearing from you? Understand? You can do whatever you want. You can do it. You're the boss. I can lay down. Yeah, well whatever you So I, I should have planned cuz I can't see outta these glasses only far away.

So we gonna try this. Okay. So I get to talk about the amazing Chris Barnett in our from our indie campus. And this is what she wrote. She says my name, hi Chris. She's like, she says, my name is Chris Barnett and I am a member of Summit Indie Campus. I belong to. Summit for about 10 years. Indianapolis has been my home since birth, except for a period of two years living in, in Ogden, Utah.

I am a retired educator of the Indianapolis public school system. During the, that 30 year tenure, I held capacities of teacher, vice principal, and director of a national high school educational initiative called Diploma Plus. [00:33:00] The message of grace has been life-changing In my walk with the Lord, I no longer feel I have to measure up to anyone's standards or anything that the world deems unsuccessful the father.

And Jesus accepts me just as I am and I don't have to work at earning it, earning his love. I am strengthened daily because I walk in his amazing grace Shalom. Mm. I love it. Yeah, I love that. So do I, do I go out now and come back in? You? You can do whatever you like. How would you like to enter? I mean, I mean, it's your show.

I know. So let's, why don't you just walk out Okay. And then make a dawn entrance. That's how we do it. Okay. You have theme music? That, see, that was part of the planning part that I, I'm just not a planner, right? I, I have my own, but this is your show. All right. So go. Hold on. Play your, play your entrance.

Give it a play. I, I want your entrance. Does that work? Oh, yeah. Come on. Hey, hey, [00:34:00] hey, hey, hey. Next. We have none other than. Dawn rose and enter into the steak. Let's go, let's go, let's go. Hey, hey, hey. We'll work on that next one. We'll work on that. So I need, I need you as my planner, so I got you. That's just not my thing, but we'll get it together.

We'll get it together. So welcome. Hi Don Roseman. Good to have you here. Jenny Show. Yes. I love it. I love it. I love that you're here and we do have a, something we're gonna do at the very end Okay. After you share about you. Okay. Are you gonna ask me questions or you want me to just you flow and then I'll go.

Okay. Okay. So, hi. So my name is, somebody gave their government name earlier, so I'll do it. My name is Dawn Rochelle Roseman. Okay. Yeah, she calls me Donny. Don't call me. She calls me Donny. I do. And I have been at Summon, I did the math over there [00:35:00] 26 years. Wow. I think I came home in 1996 for, from law school and I joined Summit, or came to Summit shortly thereafter.

I actually came to Summit. Through another, another. They used to call me, called touch groups. I came through a touch group with my cousin. You guys know him as Calvin. He's chewy to me. I went to Chewy's touch touch group because I'd always grown up in church. My mother is here, my beautiful mom is here.

I'm always never gonna not miss the miss the opportunity to, to acknowledge my mama. And she, she taught me about God. So I always grew up in church, but I'll be honest with you, and I've told this before, I never liked church. I didn't understand it. I certainly didn't have any sense that God loved me. I didn't think he talked to anybody but old people, pastors and like babies.

And so I was like, okay, so they make me go to church. I only liked church on, on first Sundays because that's when the youth choir would sing. And that's the only thing I kind of understood. And otherwise I would be really sleepy unless it was like, sometimes I like communion, cuz not because I understood it, but because it was snack time.

That was what in my [00:36:00] hands, like it's snack time. So I didn't really get church. I didn't like it. But, but I, you know, but my cousin asked me to come to this thing called a touch group, and I, I said yes more because I felt like what's, I don't have anything really to lose. I was searching, I've been raised to go to church and so I knew, I, when I came home from law school, I knew I couldn't go back to where I grew up.

I just outgrown it. I changed, I was hungry for something I didn't understand at the time, but I realized now I was looking for a teacher, somebody to help me. But I, I didn't have those words then, but, but I, so I went to the winning group because it was my cousin and I felt like if it was horrible, I could just go upstairs and hang out with the kids.

And I just seriously. And I just was like, I just won't, I'll be. And I went and if you guys remember then it was Mr. Shane McIntosh was leading that winning group. And I didn't know what was happening, but I was changing. Mm. And I I didn't have Mark then my amazing, most amazing husband Mark.

I didn't have Mark that I was just going to this thing and then he, they invited me to come to church and I would sit way back there in [00:37:00] the corner. I can't even see it. And I would sit back there, cuz again I was at an exit strategy like this. And this blows I'm out, you know? But it was really crazy cuz you come in here and you would just be bombarded with niceties and Ms.

Deborah Brown. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Just, I thought she was, I think I've told this, I thought she was a stalker. She was like, how are you? And you're wonderful. And she called me and How are you? It was so good to see you. I'm like, how do you get my number? I was like, oh, I gave you to my number. And I was like, all these things was crazy, but they just, this place just wouldn't let you go.

And I sat back there in that corner and I sat here and listened to the music and I hated it cuz it was crazy and different from anything I grew up. But then this man stood up here and I was like, what's happening? Mm. I should have brought the Kleenexes. Yeah. Me. Right. I was like, what's happening? Because I'd never okay, so there's this it's good.

There's this song that I love. I tell Mark, I did this every time I talk about this song by Tasha Cobb. It's called Jesus Is Mine. And it's not even really about any, the words are phenomenal and she just says over and [00:38:00] over, Jesus is mine. She just keeps saying that over and over again. But she gets into this refrain and she's like, Jesus is mine.

And she's like, he wants to spend time with me. And I never knew that. Mm. Yeah. All those years growing up, I never knew that God wanted to spend time with me. Mm. That he loved me. And you know, pastor made this comment, he wasn't my pastor to them. Me, he made this comment. He is like, I'm sitting back there doing things I wasn't supposed to be doing new.

I wasn't supposed to be doing them. And he was like think about all the things that you've done, all the bad things, all the things you've said, even just said a few minutes ago, whatever, think about all those things. Mm-hmm. And then think about this. And he was like, God knew all of that. And he made you anyway.

Yeah. And I just started sobbing. I was like, he's like, that's love. I was like, yeah. Right. So I just started hanging around. That 90 day thing is real. It's a trick cuz you get stuck here and you be [00:39:00] 26 years and so, so, you know, so I just, you know, hang around and then like, I never sang in church one day until I came here.

And I remember came in on a week and there was a sign out there and it said rehearsals for the posse. Remember I didn't like the music. And I was like the rehearsals for the posse. And I was like, All right. I literally, I didn't know anything about the Holy Spirit either. And so, but I heard, you know, it's almost like, it must have been like that scripture where I forget who it is, I'll be messing up the Bible, but I read it.

But that guy was like, you know, whatever he is calling his name, he is like, huh, you know, that was like me. He was like, go do the, do the, the tryout. And I was like, who? And then it was like, go do the tryout. And I'm like, who? And I was like, and I forget, I forget. It was some song that I went in there and they were like looking at me like, okay, you're here.

And I'm like, guess I'm here to try out. I guess I'm here to try out for this thing, or whatever it was. I don't even if it was called a tryout, but you could, whatever it was. But that thing, man, I go in there and just change my life. And I never knew I belonged. Even then Miss Kitty can talk to you about it.

I mean, like, for so long I always thought like, [00:40:00] like everybody else had a sh you know, a, you know, I'm getting to the place of grace. Like everybody had a, you look good, like a different connection to God than I did. Mm. So I couldn't sing like Kanan, I couldn't do these things. Kanan taught me how to worship.

Mm-hmm. And I couldn't do so many things. I thought this is the way I talked to myself. Mm-hmm. And I was just sitting there, I was like, I just couldn't figure it out. And then Grace came along. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and I remember we used to have a winning group in my office. I'm a lawyer. I've been a I've been a lawyer, I've been practicing why I've been, I came back from law school.

I've been practicing for, you know, for 26 whatever, plus years. I'm now in 20, in 2016 though, because of this ministry, ministry, because of grace, I, I stopped practicing traditionally and created a whole new position that didn't exist before. And so now I'm like, yeah, the firm, they were like, what is it?

And I was like, I wanna get paid this and I wanna do this. Yeah. And they're like, we never seen this before. I know, I know. But I'm, you know, and, and, and, and so I'm the firm diversity partner for all 22 offices. So I go around and drive inclusion Yeah. And strategy and love it. Belonging. And I have a, my, my title really is like, I get my chief.[00:41:00]

It's, it's like I get to see people for a living. Mm. Which is my heartbeat. Heartbeat. I get to point people to their greatness. It's funny, I used, when I used to talk about rain all the time, I would tell God like, it's a fail if I'm here for five years more because I wanna go pursue rain. He goes, you are rain.

What are you doing where I put you rain? Yeah. Do that there. And so he is like, so it's like funny because I actually get paid. He fun, he uses them to fund rain, to do the things that I get to reign there and push people to their greatness and, and, and, and, and, and educate people. Put people up on game that they're an unrepeatable masterpiece every day.

Yeah. That's what I get to do. But I, I was, you know, I was, I was sitting there, we used to have a winning group in my office and pastor would come and he was, I remember he was talking about grace. And it was hard for me because again, I remember used to teach, had taught a sermon on orphan's heart. Mm-hmm.

I had a clear orphan's heart with regard. God loving you. Mm. And so when you talk about grace, I was like, this is what I think. I always thought it was supposed to feel like, mm. But this is [00:42:00] not, this can't be Right. Come on. Because then what do I do? Mm. It's nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm gonna handle whatever.

Right. That's me. Okay. I'm gonna get it done. Yeah. I'm gonna handle my business. What do I do? He's like, let me love you. And that's never been a strong suit of mine. Yeah. Even when my relationships, it's hard to let people love me. Mm-hmm. Because I'm used to, I'm good at going this direction. Yeah. And so it's just open me up.

I feel like I'm a, I I I cry a lot. But it's because I have these moments where I have these, like, I feel like these absolute encounters with God, where I'm like, you, you do love me that much. Yeah. You want to spend Yeah. Time with me. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. I didn't I am enough. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's grace.

This, this message, this ministry, you raster. Being connected here literally changed my life. Literally changed. I would not be married, would not have kids. It just real talk. I just wouldn't have, cuz I would've wilded out. I would've [00:43:00] messed it up. I wouldn't, it just wouldn't have worked. Mm-hmm. But I, I, I, I have an anchor, mark and I, they're, they're, they're three person personalities in our mar in our marriage.

Me, mark, and then the Holy Spirit that helps us act right. Mm. That's good. And, and, and our boys lean into this. They, when they're af off at school, they, they watch and we study and we, you know, it just, it's changed my life. That's awesome. And it's a con, it's, excuse me, it's changed my life and it's changing my life.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All the, all the financial, you know, if you know anything good that you deem about me, about Dawn Roseman is cuz I'm connected to this ministry, rain is simply an extension of what I learned here. I stood right over there when you said you're the sum total of your thoughts of you. And I had to answer the question, Dawn, what do you think of you?

And I said, not much. I had to fix that. Yeah. Fixing that led to rain. Wow. Yeah. Fixing that led me to realize, [00:44:00] hey, I need to tell other people who I know feel like I used to feel that you belong. That you came here with a purpose. That you were designed by greatness, in greatness to be great. You, you, are you we were designed to take up all the space.

Yeah, yeah. In every room that we enter. Yeah. That's, that's who we are. Yeah. You can't, I told somebody this the other day. I used to feel, I'm like, what? What'd you say Alison? You like, you're recovering. I forget what you said. I'm a recovering people. Pleaser. I'm, that's over you like is secondary. You ain't gotta like me.

I love me. Yeah. I'm amazing. Come on. I didn't know that before Grace. Mm. My God thinks I'm awesome. Yeah. Yeah. And your your rain platform. Yeah. You get to go and like you said, not only personally have rain tables and Yeah. Raindrops. Yeah. And share your raindrops, but you are, you're the, the the position you're in at your job.

Yeah. You get to show up like that. Yeah. Every day. I don't have topology. I used to think, I used to hide. I, [00:45:00] when I wrote my first book, I didn't even, I didn't even publicize it because I was concerned that the firm would think that I was moonlighting or cheating on it. And I didn't want them to think I was divided in my commitment because I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm raised to be honorable.

My mama raised me to be respectful and have integrity, and I struggled. Mm-hmm. I struggled and one of my partners was like, I told her that I wrote the book and she like, cussed me out. Literally, she was like, what's wrong with you? A whole bunch of words. Get this out. And then she took it and then she ordered a whole bunch and she keeps a stack and she gives 'em the clients.

I was on a client call the other day and we're talking about business, all these things and blah, blah, blah, all these things. And I said to them, they're a multimillion dollar client of mine. I said, Hey, is there anything else I can do that we need to do to facilitate you, you know, us doing whatever it is we had just talked about and you have any other questions for me?

I'm sitting there and I'm like, wait, thinking she's gonna say something, they're gonna say something about what we just talked about. They're like, can I get a signed copy of your book and when is your next book coming out? I'm like, what? God is funny man. He's tripping. [00:46:00] It's awesome. It's so awesome when you do.

Yes, yes, yes. When you show up and do the thing that you were created to do, sing right at, create draw you know, whatever it is. When you do that thing and do it under him, not for these people. Not for likes, not for coin. Mm-hmm Not for when you do that. My gosh. He's like this about to get serious.

Yeah. I'm about to show myself strong through them. I'm about to show them. Can't nobody outdo the goodness of God. I'm trying to tell you, I have not billed time. It is the, it is the ex, it's the, it's the what? Lawyers at working firms. It's how we get paid. We build time. Six tenths of an hour. My life for 2020, thank you.

Mark. 25 years was nothing but six tenths of an hour. So much so that it was hard for me to relax cuz everything was about, if I spent time with you and we had a good lunch, I'd be like, how was your day? Well, it was good and fine, but I didn't bill any [00:47:00] time. Everything in my life was around, but I didn't bill any time.

So it can't be good unless I bill enough time. So when I stood there in 2016 and quit not, Hey, I want to be the diversity person that I am now. I literally quit. I told them I was leaving, I was trying to get my buy-in back, I quit. And they were like, we don't want you to quit. Let's figure this out. And then God reminded me, tell them, this is the position you wanna take.

I'm like, but I don't want to take that position. He's like, tell them this is what you're gonna. And then he gave me the thing to give to them. And then I started thinking, because when I get nervous sometimes I'll make jokes about things. And I was, you know, I got babies at the time. They were, I was like, I, you know, and my mentors, you gotta be careful.

Even when people love you, you gotta make sure God don't need no co-signer. He tell you to do something. Do what he said. You don't need nobody else to be okay with it. And so I was sitting there and my mentor was like, Hey what about them kids? It's like the devil gave him a playbook of every one of my fears.

He's like, what about them kids? How you gonna pay for 'em to go to college? How you gonna keep up your [00:48:00] lifestyle? Yeah. How you going? I was crying in my office. I called Mark and Mark was like, he was like yelling at me. He's like, what did God tell you to do? Come on. What did he tell you to do? Yeah, that's what we going to do.

So I quit and then I gave them that proposal because that's what God led me to do. And then I was gonna make a joke cuz we went to go buy school supplies. And I was I was thinking in my head cuz my friend told me I was, I was kind of testing the waters of if I should quit. And I said, what if I quit?

She's like, I don't care if you quit, you just ain't gonna be able to buy organics. She's, she's joking. And so I was like, Hey man, that's not funny. So we're getting ready to buy them some stuff and I heard the enemy say to me, he's like, enjoy this cuz you're not even gonna be able to buy them school. And I started getting ready to say something.

The Holy Spirit said, don't you dare think that I will ever let you go backwards for choosing to work from me. Thank you, Jesus. I have made more money, not billing time than I ever made in the entire 25 years. And it is not about money. Yes. It's about God. Yes. Because if it all went away, [00:49:00] I'm still rocking with him.

Come on. So I'm just trying to tell you like this, this place, this boldness, this is me. Mm-hmm. But this has been cultivated because I sit here, I need to be pastored. Mm. That's good stuff. That's good stuff. And not just anybody. Mm-hmm. Not, I mean, I watch other things and I listen to other ministers and I get other good things, but I need, you need to sit under someone who sees you and holds you accountable.

Mm-hmm. Pastor used to walk by me sometime. He like, Hey, watch who you hanging with? I was like, who talking?

Yeah. You. I, this ministry has literally changed my life. It's changed every ti I've been mad. I've thrown fits. I've quit. I've quit the music ministry 30, 40, 50 times. I've, I've, I've, I've been mad at pastor. I've been mad at you. I've been mad at [00:50:00] myself. Yeah. I've been mad at, oh, I've been mad a whole I, but.

Mm-hmm. This is my home. Mm-hmm. Yes. Praise God. When I travel, I miss it. Mm-hmm. And I, I appreciate y'all for showing up in good times and in bad times. Yeah. To give out what the Holy Spirit is giving you. Y'all, whomever listen out there who don't come, like, I can get this and just stay here. Come. You can't.

It's different. You gotta come. That's good. You gotta come, you gotta belong. You gotta let somebody put some arms around you. You gotta let somebody love on you and challenge you. Miss Kitty gave me so many books that I was like, she trying to like handle me. Yeah. She be like, you need to stop. I was like, she gave me a book, like Seven Deadly Sins.

I was like, what? I was like crazy. Yeah. But it's been amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Changed my life. What? You asked me, what's you answered all of 'em. So, so what a, what a good setup to end. Right. So [00:51:00] Donnie is also just, she, she loves hard. Right? And she's, she's an awesome friend. And so this so, so we're gonna do a little quick duet and Yes we are.

And so is Tommy still here? Come up real quick. Tommy. If you're here, Tommy. So that's what friends are for. Oh Lord. I know, right? And so what'd y'all go? And so I got the lyrics. Did you know the words? No. We gonna soon do the first, the first little, little part. And and come on now. Don't be trying to trip on me.

I had it right here. I had the lyrics. I got the lyrics right. There we go. All right, so we're just gonna, yeah. Does Tommy, no. Does Tommy? No. No. Tommy? No. No. Oh, okay. Okay. So, okay. So how's it go? This is it Uhhuh? This is it. Okay. I, I know I know the, you gonna play it? Yeah. Okay. Awesome.

Oh, no, that's not it.

There she is there. Okay. Are there words? Yeah. There's[00:52:00]

only you,

you first. And I never thought I'd feel this way. And as far as I'm concerned, I'm glad I got the chance to say that. I do believe I love you and me, and if I should ever go away, well close your and try to feel the way we do today. There I moved it. I'm sorry. This will end here. We're in here. Oops. Keep smiling, keep shining.

No, when you can always count on me first. [00:53:00] That's what friends are for. In good times, in bad times, I'll be on your side.

That's what friends are for. There you go. Awesome. Woo. That's all. Give it up. Love you. Awesome. Sorry Tommy. I'd put you on the spot at the last minute. All right, let's give it up for Dawn Ro Rosalyn Roseman set her middle name all wrong. Awesome, awesome, awesome. I love putting her on the spot. I love putting her on the spot for singing.

So next we have the amazing DRA Campbell. Woohoo. Yes, yes. Hello. How are you? I'm pretty good. Good. How are you today? I'm great, dra. So you're gonna pull [00:54:00] your mic up. Don't be shy. So good to have you here, dra. All right. Like, thanks for inviting me. You're so welcome. And so just give the peace. Oh, Lord.

Okay. Of course.

Okay. So give us a little information, a background about you and as far as being here and all that good stuff. Okay. So I am Dondre Campbell. Mm-hmm. And I started attending Summit Church in 1999. I had several clients that attended here. Thank you. And had small groups. Thank you. Including Dawn and several other people.

So when I say clients, I am a hairstylist and I knew quite a few of the clients or [00:55:00] members from my salon. So I, when I begin attending Summit Church, I was heavily involved in a 12 step program called Narcotics Synonymous, which they use the steps to help you evolve and change your life from a life of addiction.

And I served on the area chairperson or area committee, and I remember the chairperson telling me something's different about. And so let me roll back. When I made the decision to accept an invitation, thank you. Mm-hmm. I was driving home. I had one child and driving home to my house, and when I would turn the corner, I could tell that a light that was always on was off.

So my my lights were off and my response before I went in the house was, I'm going to Summit Church. Didn't people got direction in they light [00:56:00] based on what I would hear about, you know, the experiences and services. Well, it was services then, and it changed the experience. So I started attending and just started using the principles to live my life by, to raise my children, by and to operate in my business.

And one of the first things, or the first time we had Ms. Tanya was here and I would share with her about my clients and the inconsistencies and the expectations of the clients and coming short. And that's when I first began to really pray over my business. And she told me to ask God to. Send clients with the means to pay my fees.

Mm-hmm. And I know many people here are entrepreneurs and one of the hardest things about providing a service directly to people as opposed to going to a job [00:57:00] and they give you a wage is price. You know? Mm-hmm. Your, your, your, your fee and it makes you uncomfortable. And I mean, some of the, I've dealt with some really powerful entrepreneurs and when it came time for them to charge me, they would, you know, thousands of dollars, they would be uncomfortable.

So that's kind of a familiar thing when you say it's gonna be this much. Yeah. And I had to build confidence and, and believe, and, and, but I couldn't really do that. I could say it mm-hmm. But I really couldn't do it without the word and knowing that I'm valuable. Yeah. My time is valuable. Yeah. My service is valuable.

I provide a good service. And so I came here in 1999, so that would be, I didn't do the math. I was listening. But there became a season and I was reviewing my notes. I, I, I'm a journal junkie, but [00:58:00] don't tell pastor I don't. The a Straight Out Summit Journal. You don't, but I'm going to get back Okay.

To that. Cause you are, I had, I've had and I appreciate your what did you call it? Like urgency. Okay. Because your urgency brings healing. So, as you know, I've talked about, I've been a, a, a stylist for over 40 years. I'm a third generation entrepreneur. My father, his family in Alabama had a dairy farm.

And he came here and when we were young, he had this car wash that was, it was a concierge car wash where he would pick up all the big players, the old players cars, and, and I got to do the ashtrays and any of the chrome. And then my parents opened a restaurant that was here for over 20 years, my mom and my dad.

And I've worked in there and just learned about serving people and being kind to people. I've only [00:59:00] seen my dad get upset twice and once. Yeah. Anyways. Mm-hmm. So what I was saying was there was a season, so I was speaking about being an entrepreneur. Mm-hmm. And how the grace has helped me in that is knowing my worth.

Understanding that everybody isn't for me. Mm-hmm. Ms. Carla taught me that some time ago, but just the messages and knowing my words and valuing myself and, and, and, and the industry is changing so much and being okay with how I provide service and the services I provide. Yes. And not comparing myself.

Yes, absolutely. There's, there's hundreds of wonderful stylists. Mm-hmm. And there's hundreds, not hundreds, but there's wonderful stylists just right here in our family. Yes. Mm-hmm. And I get to be who I am Yes. And provide the service I provide. Yes. So in the interim of [01:00:00] raising my children you know, and understanding that trouble come to us all.

So I talk about how long I've been here mm-hmm. For a season. I did leave and while I was gone, that's when pastor started teaching the grace message. But here's the big thing. Someone talked about finding a church, and I remember there was meth. You know, pastor would talk about, you know, you can look for a choir, you can look for the children's ministry, the teen ministry, but you find a pastor.

Yeah. And then when him and Miss Carla would pray over the babies and babies would recognize their voices because the parents was playing the CDs or listening to the messages. So so I turned into the pro called Child and I ran away and I I wasn't mad or you or pastor. Mm-hmm. You know, like anybody else.

And he said, why they doing that? But [01:01:00] I, I was very hurt with the circumstances that were going on in my life. And there were people there to love me through it, like genuinely. Mm-hmm. But I don't know, I didn't mm-hmm. Recognize the love. Yeah. Because I hadn't quite really learned to love myself.

So I ran away. And the funny thing I, I did go to another church or like three or four of them, but I, I went on this trip and the roommate was on Facebook. I was like, dead sleep. And she started listening to something of Miss Carla. And so I'm asleep and I hear this person talking and it just woke me up.

And I said, is that Miss Carla? And she said, mm-hmm. And I think she was talking about crying. I can't remember what she said, but my response [01:02:00] was, I'm going home. Praise. And that's why I refer it to the prodigal child. But even more, I think it was like a new, it was, it was at the beginning of the year and they were having something here.

Well, first I ran into Nicole and Jimmy and I said, I'm coming to Summit tomorrow. And she was so excited. She was gonna text pastor, but she text me. But, and that's how I knew she was so excited. But when I went up and spoke to pastor, his response, if you know about the prodigal child or son mm-hmm. He, every, when he came back, he was always received with open arms.

Yeah. And I didn't expect Pastor Al's response cuz he was like, I'm so glad. Like he almost went down to the floor and came back up. Like, and that just showed the heart. Yeah. The love that no matter the [01:03:00] personalities or exchanges or anything. So that's what I do. That's my calling as a hair stylist.

I've, I've known Pastor Miss Carla for many, many years. I, I knew and Miss Carla isn't that much older than me, but I, she was just always.

A good girl. A good girl, she always set a great example. She was always doing great things in her community and she was just someone you would like look up to because I was running around being bad. So anyways, in that process as far as the grace message, after returning and, and I just started building more confidence in myself, I, I began to work corporate after well I worked in education and then corporate and I worked for a company called Brotherhood Mutual Insurance.

And it, as you know, is, there is no such thing as [01:04:00] a Christian company, but we provide insurance for churches and parochial schools. And so we have church every Thursday, but it's, it's like a church cuz it's stuff. Mm-hmm. And it's people. Mm-hmm. And so, one of the things, and that's what I have in my little notebook here, when I came back and pastor was talking about waiting for it, but you know, he's a techie, so he.

In this message, he started talking about something he had been waiting for, and it took a long time. So when I was hired into customer service, I looked around and there was a specific position I wanted. So I wrote it on the refrigerator. And if you've been here any time you're gonna hear Pastor Al or Pastor Out, or Pastor Tracy or talk about writing a vision and just, and, and when you first hear that, it'd be all complicated.

It'd be like, buy pages long. So what I did was I just put a whiteboard [01:05:00] sticky on my refrigerator, and I wrote the position with my name and the company, like a business card. And it was up there for two years. Wow. And so, you know, we cleaned more after Covid. So I'm cleaning, I'm like, I'm a, so that Sunday pastor was talking about Wait for it, wait for it, you know, like on TikTok, wait for it.

And that part of what he was saying went into my spirit because I was, I was like, it's been two years. I'm gonna just watch this off. In that he's been talking about listening, being quiet long enough to hear this Holy Spirit. And it said, no, wait and see what I do. Mm. So I applied. And anyways, I ended up, they created a position for me, didn't post it.

And then, And so I was gonna come back because it wasn't the exact position and I was gonna wipe it off again. And it was [01:06:00] like, this what you asked for, he will give you what you asked for. And, and, and Grace is teaching me to wait, because there is some things that we have asked for that hasn't come to fruition yet, and we have to keep waiting or if the spirits ain't do something else.

Mm-hmm. But I'm just saying it has really taught me to wait and to trust. So with that being said, when I, when, when Ms. Carla called, I was in my head I made a really silly mistake, which we do, and I tend to be so hard on myself. And so I got like a little chewing out, a little correction, and my manager is a manager.

I want it because I'm very direct in my old department. If I ask a question, she mad, you know? Mm-hmm. So that's another part of that I've learned is quit letting people define who I am. [01:07:00] Yeah. I have to let seek God and, and sit still and listen, listen more, say less. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So Okay, I'll just, you said when I called you and I called, oh yeah.

When Miss Cara called, like I wasn't working from home, but I was under distress cuz I had a meeting and, and, and, and when I just, I made one little simple mistakes and one little email, but he was just on and on and on. And so I'm trying not to let that person in my head, it was something like, you are the dumbest person we know.

Mm-hmm. You are this and, and you know that you guys sing that song about, you know, our, our our, those what we hear and we can't, you know, we have to cast that down. So she called and invited me to her show, which I didn't know it was a show, but anyways, I didn't there was some great news, there's some great things.

Promotion is from the Lord. I can't talk about it yet. I'm like, come on y'all with, with the [01:08:00] stuff. But I'll tell you this meeting I had about what's coming forth it was with my manager and my manager's manager and my manager saying, or his manager is saying all these great things and on and on and on.

And then finally he said, and you know, it will come with this, that or the other. And what threw me off is, you know, we cannot lose hope in faith. Yeah. You know? Mm-hmm. Because he said what he had to say was, I'm so glad you ain't asked about no money. I trust God. Yeah. He brung it last time and he gonna keep bringing it.

Yeah. Amen. And so, I don't know if that's all you wanted to hear, but there's a lot here. But it's good. I love pastoral and Miss Carla and Miss Kitty and Pastor Tracy. I love everyone. And Dawn, Dawn is always gonna tell you that she loves you and she means it. Yeah. And and everyone here, so you were awesome.

Thank you so much. That was [01:09:00] great. We can put it on your seat. Thank you so much. Yes. We celebrate you. Thank you. And we know that God is continuing to move. We have a few more. We're gonna have you stand up for a minute just to stretch your legs, and then the next person is coming up.

Oh, thank you. I I'm still using the mic. All right. So are you getting blessed though? You know, it's, it's, you know, we are the word walking word. We are because of the word that we receive. And so Fifi's coming and she's gonna do an Indianapolis individual. Oh yeah. You do need that, don't you? Yes. All right.

Alright. Hey y'all. Hey. Good morning. Good morning. I am doing Miss Sheron Agnew from our indie campus. I'm gonna read little bit about her and I [01:10:00] gave it a title because that's me and I'm gonna call it a Woman with Purpose. Okay. My name is Sharon Agnew. I have been a member of Summit Church Indy since November, 2014.

I was born and raised in Evansville, Indiana, and I moved to Indianapolis in 1997. I graduated from the University of Southern Indiana in 1997 with the Bachelor's of Science and Accounting. I served in the Indiana Army National Guard for six years. Thank you for your service. Mm-hmm. And was honorably discharged as a specialist, E four in 1996.

In 20 2007, I received my MBA from Anderson University, and in 2014 I obtained my C P A license. Currently I am the Deputy Chief Financial Officer and senior Vice President for Pet Corp Investments, overseeing strategic planning and implementing policies [01:11:00] for accounting and treasury departments. I work closely with developing financing and banking departments in the areas of new developments.

Acquisitions and rehabilitations of loan refinances. I joined Petco Investments in 1997 as a staff accountant, and I have received several promotions during my tenure. I serve on the Board of Inclusivity Institute focused on contributing to the mission of dis disrupting housing segregation, eviction prevention and special projects aim to reduce the harms of predatory lending.

In addition, I was a volunteer for Starfish incentives, serving a four year commitment to mentor a high school student. I enjoyed serving and encouraging people, especially young minorities, to achieve their education and career goals. I am a child of God. God has blessed me [01:12:00] and continues to bless me. I am so thankful for all that God does for me through Jesus Christ.

The message of grace reached me at a point in my life when I needed to be fed spiritually. I was raised in the Church of Christ and was baptized at 16. I love my Church of Christ family, but the church system resonated with me as do good, get good system. Mm-hmm. The message of grace that I am saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, changed me from the inside out.

I have stopped trying to fit the ideal Christian and started listening to the small voice on the inside, known as the Holy Spirit. I truly believe that a small steel voice led me to Summit Church Indie. And one Sunday morning I was watching Joel Osteen program and I saw a commercial for Summit Church.

I heard the Holy Spirit say to me, [01:13:00] visit that church. Mm-hmm. It took me a while to visit by I eventually obeyed that obedience led me to the message of grace and having a personal relationship with God, the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. One of my favorite scriptures is Proverbs three, five and six.

And this scripture, along with others, provides direction for me personally and professionally each day throughout the day. I thank God for the finished work of the cross through Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Yay. All right, so we got a switch of, of our plan. Yes. As you may know. Yes.

Team. And so because we still have to do offering, not offering communion. And so what we're gonna do, and, and I apologize as a host, that those of you that are still on the agenda, we're gonna honor you next week. Okay, so I do apologize. And [01:14:00] so at this time mm-hmm. I'm gonna say thank you to Fifi for being so amazing, and she's one of them that will be honored next week.

So, but so thank you Fifi. So at this time honey, you gonna come out, come on back up. But I, I apologize. We did have on the schedule Peggy Stevens. Peggy, can you stand up? I wanna acknowledge you. Anyways, Peggy Stevens. Yay. Tiffany Shannon from the indie campus, Janae McGill here. Molly Thomas, who's gonna be sharing one of the Tiffany's.

So we will definitely honor you all next week. So you see, I need you all, I need planners. I need people that are very strategic and know how to do time. I don't know how to do that. I just go. And so I love you all and I appreciate you. Thank you honey, for giving me this opportunity to to be here. And so the show is yours.