Hey, this is Beth. Listen, what we live for at Living Proof is to serve people the Word of God.

We base our ministry on Hebrews 412 that tells us that the Word is alive and active. We pray this message is going to serve you in some way today and that God

is going to speak through it. Thank you so much for giving us this privilege.

Turn for our very last few minutes together to Acts chapter 27. Only this time you're looking

at the very end of it because we're going to bridge to those first few verses of chapter 28.

I want to tell you something.

I hold something precious in my hands today.

I'm going to try to get through this with a lump in my throat.

Your stories mean something to us.

It was just woman to woman.

I'm moved by the things that you tell me,

but team to people,

when you tell us something God's done

or something you're going through,

I want you to know we're moved by that.

We've never gotten over that.

And I'm going to have to back up to an event in 2008 when we met at Atlanta for what they call a deeper still conference.

It's where Kay Arthur and Priscilla Shire and I come together and teach a conference.

And it's just really a cool time.

And over the course of the previous year, maybe even longer than that, I'm not absolutely

positive how long they had been in touch, but through the blog world, which can have something

significant to offer, a group of women got together, began connecting with one another with

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