SPEAKER_00 0:00

Here comes a sun do. Here comes a sunda say it's all right.

SPEAKER_02 0:19

Hello, Fortitude audience. It is Amos and I sitting here right now. We wanted to come on and just thank each and every one of you for being avid listeners and continuing to hear the stories of redemption and hope and fortitude. A lot of these stories are really hard for people to share. And um the the care and the concern after the fact has been really beautiful, what has been happening to not only our guests, but what is happening in the community of fortitude. And so I'm we just are so grateful. And we wanted to touch base on our mission and our vision of the future now that I am no longer working full-time and we are really focusing in on the podcast and a couple other things that are that are coming down the the pike.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

And so never sitting still, are you, honey?

SPEAKER_02 1:14

Never. Uh but you're passionate.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

You've got passions that you're following and you're making a difference and you're following your heart and you're following God's will, which is beautiful, beautiful to watch.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

It is so fun. It really is. Um, and being able to spend time with our kids is gonna be amazing.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

Yeah, just amazing. I wish we'd done that years ago.

SPEAKER_02 1:33

We will have another whole episode on what the transition has been like for us. Um, we've had a lot of people who said they have been following and really been encouraged by this transition in our personal life with the alcoholism um and just pressing through in so many different areas of our marriage and of our transition with respect to alcoholism, that was three and a half years ago.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

But now fast forward three and a half years, and you felt like God was saying you need to go be a full-time mom, which you've done.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

And it was so inspiring that you had someone the very next day you told your story, you've had uh you've had a few people follow in your footsteps. Yes. Haven't you? Yes. Just take that inspiration and go, yep, it's time for me to jump ship too. And they've done it.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

Yeah. There are you talking about the career?

SPEAKER_01 2:23

For the career, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:24

Yeah. Yeah. There's it's yeah. There's been a several people who have said watching your story and watching your courage to follow what Christ is calling you to do because truly that's all it has been. Um, not only it's the big thing, is just Christ has really pressed in on a lot of different areas in my life. And I knew that he was calling me out and that my job was kind of done where I was full-time, as much as I loved it and loved my bot all of it. Like it, it was such a beautiful parting. And so I'm we're heading out to Wyoming, um, coming up in the next month or so. And we have it's it's exciting because I'm gonna be a commission minister. Um, I went through some courses and that is still being honored, and so that's another big step, which is which is great.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

I just never thought I'd be married to a commissioned minister. It just wasn't in any vision of what my future looked like. It's wonderful.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

Yeah. And I know it's just a a play in and terminology, but I think it's actually called constituent uh minister, just to make that politically correct.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

Um so I am gonna call you Pastor Heather, though.

SPEAKER_02 3:37

Oh, okay, great. So sexy. Um so one thing we wanted to just a quick touch base on is Fortitude's mission and vision is really important to us. We do not we we do not want to lose sight in that. We never want to lose our focus on honoring the individuals who have been through some really tough things. And as we share these stories, and um, you know, sometimes there is another side to the story. And we recognize that, we know that, and we really want to make sure that we're sensitive to that. But our biggest thing is speaking truth. And the truth being those who have been potentially hurt or have the trauma and are sharing these stories of redemption and hope and what they have done through those tough times, that's what we're here to share. We are here to share how Christ has been a huge part in that and what they uh what they know to be true, and then also the ways that they can encourage others who may be going through the similar situations and similar traumas. And um someone who has been on a lot of traumatic situations from the alcoholic side, Amos dealing with me, and just what that was like, um, what your side of the story is, what my side of the story is, um, then also being a victim of rape or a victim of narcissistic abuse. That's my story. That's what I get to share. That's that's the next person that comes in will be sharing another story. And what will not happen in our in our side of things is that we will not lose sight of what Christ is calling us to do. And that is to, again, share truth and to help others who are going through similar situations.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

In this world that's so filled with garbage information and just entertainment, there is a lack of true wisdom and understanding. And we see people go through this life with not knowing what they don't know. And through hearing other people's stories, they can start to relate and start to make some different decisions about their life. And through that, you're saving we're saving marriages, saving lives, saving futures, or say we're saving generations. And the platform is not to speak to those who have hurt others, it's necessarily we're not this isn't a platform for people to vent their stories, to vent right. It is a platform to for people to talk about it, and that's there's a healing portion of that, but they're not pointing a finger at anyone. And they want to tell their story so other people can experience it and do the do things differently and and change the course of their own lives. Yeah, and we will not bow to intimidation. We've had intimidation, and it's incredible how people can come out and and uh you know try to silence. Try to silence this podcast. But you know, when you're doing the work of the Lord and your heart's in the right place, we believe in our mission. And and when you have the backing of the Lord, the courage is one of those things that just comes easy.

SPEAKER_02 7:11

Yeah. And there's a lot of times that those who have done the hurt will try to silence um be for the sake of reputation or the sake of whatever it might be, and that's why we're being very sensitive to that. We will never speak names, we will never come right out, and like you just said, we won't, it's not here to to blame point fingers or any of that, is simply for those um that are going through similar situations that they can find healing through this, and also um that their stories will help point them to the Lord, which is the ultimate healer. Right. And so thank you to everyone who is continuously listening to us um and finds uh laughter in mine and Amos's silly humor and relationship. It's we're not done by any means. There is so much more to come.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

This is true. It's so true.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

Oh, so keep tuning in. We have a lot of great episodes that are coming up.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

Thanks, everyone. Thanks for listening.

unknown 8:15

Thanks.