#BlackGirlMagic: Mekdes Haddis

Truth's Table

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 30 September 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Episode Description: We are delighted to have Mekdes Haddis, author of Just Missions, as our #BlackGirlMagic guest for September! Mekdes Haddis’ turns one this month, and she is at the table talking to us about the various ways her book Just Missions has been received.

Mekdes is the founder and executive coach of Just Missions, an online community that elevates diaspora voices and equips Western allies to become mutual partners for the work of the gospel. Originally from Ethiopia, she moved to the United States in 2003 and earned a BS in communications from Liberty University and a master's degree in organizational leadership from Columbia International University. She is also the project director of the Racial Justice and Reconciliation Collaborative for the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). Haddis has worked in several churches, building discipleship and outreach strategies that are holistic in their approach to include people on the margins. She and her family live in South Carolina. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

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0:00.0	This episode of Truths Tables brought to you by University Press, whose vision is to
0:04.6	catalyze redemption, restoration, and revival in our divided and broken world.
0:09.5	Visit IVP's website at www.ivpress.com.
0:15.1	Sisters, how y'all feel? Brothers, y'all all right? If this is your first time at Truths Table,
0:20.9	welcome to the table. If you've been sitting at the table with us all these years,
0:25.0	we are so grateful that you have been listening to us through these years
0:28.3	and we are inviting you to partner with us and support our work at patreon.com.
0:33.6	Slash Truths Table. Now pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us.
0:40.0	Hey y'all, welcome to Truths Table.
0:42.0	Move on to the culture for grace and truth. I'm a Camini and I'm Christina.
0:46.0	This table is built by Black woman and for Black woman. So welcome to the table. See how you doing,
0:50.4	girl? I'm doing good today. You know what? We were just chatting off recording.
0:56.3	Off recording just a moment ago about about hairstyles for upcoming events and all and so
1:02.4	that was a conversation. I thought you were talking about the moment that you
1:06.8	therapist me before we came on. Yes, but that's true. Therapy and hair. I'm sorry.
1:13.6	Faithful are the wounds of a friend. I appreciate what you do. I'm doing great.
1:20.2	I did a huge look. Liberty also gives me real talk too. It doesn't even be advised.
1:24.6	Now let me tell you what I would not be XYZ. I'd be like, okay.
1:29.6	That's true. That's exactly how it is. And I received it. I put it in my little pot of
1:34.8	keepings. I'm like, let me keep it over here. I gave her a word of keepings as well.
1:41.9	And I receive, I receive, I receive. I'm like, you right. You right, girl.
1:47.2	Or right enough. Right enough to keep.
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