Lewis was born and raised in Kansas. He and his son moved to Virginia in 2020 and his not wife joined them about two weeks later. Lewis joins us today to share how God has delivered him from a life of drug addition, how he is apart of Celebrate Recovery at Church of the Nazarene and hopes to be a leader in CR. Below is a link to a five minute video that we played on Easter Sunday of Lewis’s testimony.

Experience a real life story of God exchanging beauty for ashes, trading death for new life!

https://youtu.be/hGSJ6e_NUgs

Also here is a link if you want more info. on Celebrate Recovery

Celebrate Recovery

On Today’s broadcast of Hope Talks Pastor Margaret Michael & Grayson Willis reflect on  Palm Sunday, its significance of it and also give context in relation to culture and the time period that it took place. The main scripture that we focus on today is Luke 19:28-40 as well as a few others.

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Yolanda grew up on the westside of Harrisonburg and was raised in a Mennonite family. She has two sisters. Yolanda is married to her husband Ben and they have two kids, Anya and Sam. Yolanda and Ben are builders. Yolanda joins us today to share her testimony.

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Jenny was born and raised in Shenandoah, Va. and was one of seven children. Jenny married her husband Rick and moved to Elkton, Va. at the age of 20. Jenny joins us on Hope Talks today to share her testimony. Also Jenny shared about working for Hope Distributed for eight years and about how she still volunteers there. For more information on how to get involved as a volunteer or if you and in need org know of someone in need of clothing, food or furniture you can visit their website https://www.hopedistributed.org/

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Today Pastor Margaret Michael & Grayson Willis share on Hope and the importance of it. At Church of the Nazarene our mission statement is that we are Transformed by God to bring Hope to others through Christ. Also going forward our podcast will have a new name Hope Talks. Some of the scriptures that we share today are Ephesians 3:14-20, Jeremiah 29:10-14, 2 Kings 6 and Revelation 12:11.