Next Chapter: Continuing Wynter's Legacy

welcome I don't know I just keep start talking hey yeah we're gonna talking hey this is John my name is Jonathan Pitts and I'm sitting here with my cousins who I'll introduce in a second here but just want to say welcome and just want to say that I'm glad to be here with you and although it's kind of difficult why we're here I'm just really excited to show these next few moments with you and my family and winters family if you don't know who I am but you probably don't my name is Jonathan Pitts again and I'm married winter Danielle Evans in 2003 and she was a lot of my life for 15 years and we had four beautiful girls together and about halfway into that marriage not only we had four beautiful girls together but once it began creating resources for girls for our girls and just continued to develop resources for our girls that became resources for the world and for girls and probably your families and other families and I don't know the screens turning here so hopefully we're good but anyway I just want to welcome you out and just a couple things I wanted to share first of all I married once year 2003 we had a four girls minister you started to go and it just began to just grow and develop and winter built a branded ministry and for girls like you that was really bigger than her life like she passed away in July July 24th of 2018 about six months ago a little over six months ago and it's been the hardest six months months of my life but the paradox between the sorrow that I felt and the joy that I've felt at the same time seeing God at work and seeing God just continuing to use her life and use her ministry has been doing nothing I've ever known and God's been really good to me and I'm gonna cry I wasn't gonna cry but anyway I'm you guys were really good to be my family and we're here today winters birthday was January 29th should have been 39 years old and my twelve year old girl Caitlyn reminded me that she's one years old in heaven or that she turned 39 heaven says she celebrated her first year in heaven so we're really kind of celebrating her life celebrating her legacy of just being an incredible mom and being an incredible visionary I guess I'd call her in terms of ministry and mission and I'm really proud of who she was and what she became I'm proud to be associated with her great for what for what God gave me her so I'm grateful so now look at this introduced only about the story starting what's really neat is we married in 2003 but we moved to Dallas in 2005 kind of on a whim our family thought we were crazy except the family that we were coming to you yeah the other people sitting on this couch so winter had a bunch of cousins but four amazing cousins in Dallas and I'm sitting with all of them Jonathan Evans right here we call Peter John John Chrystal the oldest of her so they're all these are all Tony Evans kids which you probably already know winters uncle her dad's brother so Jonathan's the baby then crystal is the oldest then crystal Hearst perso Shire who is right under Crystal and then Anthony Evans Jr and hello so anyway over the last I feel like you have to say it a little slower because we get this question all the time how good dad is Tony I mean he's our dad and then winters dad yeah it's brothers with our dad did I say that right okay so there are others and Ben all of us are cousins because people ask all the time about it how what's the connection and how exactly it works yeah yeah so we actually we moved here in 2005 and one of the beautiful things is we've literally raised our kids with them as they've raised their kids we all had babies when we moved here and all of our kids have been growing we've all got teenagers now I didn't have babies so and then John John actually had the youngest baby the feather now and the baby's name is Jade winter and was born on winter solstice with a born on when the first day of winter winter solstice yeah I did that on purpose no we don't we never find out what we're having so everybody's waiting and Jonathan already told me the baby's gonna be born on December 21st because that's the first day of winter it's gonna be a girl and you're gonna need a winter I was like yes sir I knew I knew the baby's gonna be born on on the first day when I was like that baby's rumors which was the day that they scheduled to be here yeah we were hired to even knowing and you know they just already had scheduled it and then the baby came out as a girl and you said oh it's a little weird this little whip and then we named her Jade winter Emmons I always want to say Pits [Applause] so the first name was supposed to be winter but we wanted to honor winter while also honoring winters daughters so that her daughters would have the opportunity to give that first name to their talk yeah they wanted to do that so if you're just joining us I'm Jonathan Pitts these are all the Evans kids what's your first cousin so people can see oh and share it if you want to share if you're on Facebook live we'd love for you to share it if you're on Instagram live anyway they're sure right now oh yeah we're here we're celebrating winters 39th birthday which was actually last week on January 29th we're celebrating we went out the family went out to Cracker Barrel to celebrate our birthday a church if she would have wanted us to have biscuits in pancake cracker broth because I went to Cain prime in Nashville which is a great steak house with anyway if you're joining us what I welcome you out we're celebrating winters birthday we're celebrating her life and her ministry for girls like you and actually just going to share a little bit about the next chapter what for what for girls like you is going to continue to do but also what it's going to grow into based on what your vision but as we do that one of the ways I wanted to do it is start with just a question for her cousins who honestly like winter we could consider Priscilla and Krystal with her best friends like she did life with them all the time they just knocked on our door tank and kanika his wife kanika best friends but they would just knock on her door and winter was what you'll probably tell us throw our honorary enter was just kind of annoying enough to not answer and then answer but she loved her cousins and then they go to movies together they have a life you don't describe it but he didn't have a collar and she wouldn't answer so I would just go over be like I know you're in there the door we'd happen to live like a couple houses and their dad so just made it all the easier these go nothing no I just being just but anyway one question for you guys question is what did you love about winter and how's that live on let's start who wants to start regular first of all big shout out to Shawn winters brother yeah surely we love you he's here in Dallas with best as well yeah with drea and so we love all of you Brian Blake Paige love you but winter winter for me we had a big sister little brother relationship I mean everything from me walking into her house and she being like what are you doing here you know to you know when we were young I I took her to drastic park and she was cuddled up under me as we were in the movies by ourselves I guess she was scared of the the dinosaurs and so we just hung out we had a great brother-sister relationship I remember one time I pulled her braid and I was like does that hurt and she was like does that hurt so we we we had a great but she was always inviting whenever I showed up it's not like the pine cone house and she was already there first she would say Georgia little brother right there and so that's that's what's gonna live on is just that realness that realness comes through in all of her work that realness comes through and how she parented that realist came through and how she was a wife and so that it was just real person family real family and so that's what's gonna live on as people are gonna experience realness when they experience the things that she produced because she was just real yeah I would say so I'll just jump in and say what I really loved about winter I mean obviously I loved her a lot she was my wife 15 years in one month I'm so grateful that God allowed us to get to 15 years as opposed to 14 years and 10 months or 11 months or whatever but when I really loved about her and I didn't I didn't know I didn't know who the heavens as were I didn't know that world so I just met this girl in Philadelphia in college that was just your regular girl and she was super simple there was nothing complicated about her like what you saw what you got she'd say what she met she'd say what she thought I mean she was just really normal so I think that translated in some ways and actually me not necessarily on this is gonna make me look bad but not necessarily thinking that I would never thought the vision that God had for our life and I would have never thought that what God was doing their life would be as grand as what he'd created and that just speaks to my immaturity I think but at the same time like when I watched what God was doing in her life and her ministry and how she blossomed it just makes me really grateful to been a part of it and was a reminder that doesn't matter who the girl is that God can do amazing things to her if she's just obedient to him and so I'm really grateful for that and it's always be just grateful for that are we looking at this camera now is that what we're saying okay so so that's what I thought about winter I mean just regular girl and so yeah I'll probably say more because I feel like I should but anybody else crystal you want sure yeah I think you said about simplicity winter mm-hmm winter just because she just wasn't gonna put forth more energy than required for anything that wasn't important she could just see really clearly to what was important so I I would call her a lot and say okay so listen I just need to go into a quick quick crystal ISM just let me do the thing and she could just pierce through really quickly was super a high amount of clarity of what was really important and made things simple and you've heard me talk about just her attitude about wrists it was just she did a lot that's always from a place of wrist so now when you ask what's important and you know kind of how that connects to me right now she's she is in my head all the time about is this important are you doing too much you know and so so that's kind of it I mean she just had a great just let it live by example in a great way in that way and then maybe feel like I was just wise like even you called me a few weeks after her passing you had a question for him you're like you know you just have wisdom that's what you do and I was like I do but she would say that to me and she would say hey you know you just kind of you've got some years on you a little bit ahead with your child rearing so you know what do you fake and kind of helped me to see myself in a position I don't really think I saw before that well crystal does have wisdom because I was boxing her last night about what to do about a parenting thing so I fell for that and now winters not calling her items Priscilla yeah actually I was gonna say pretty much the same thing that winter was always interested in refueling herself she cared about herself not at the expense of the other things that were important to her but she wasn't going to do them at the expense of what mattered to her yeah whether it was her family or whether it was just self care like I really need a nap I'm gonna take a nap and so again we are all marveling at it seems like the more she just yielded to the Lord and what he had for her and wanted for her it's like God just fast-tracked the ministry that he wanted to produce to her life before you know she went to meet him face to face and so those 10 how do you write 10 books in four years who does that nobody you know how do you produce a magazine over and over and over again that is excellent in quality that reaches thousands of people that has all these subscribers and you don't have some big big machine behind you pushing or publishing the book while you're publishing the books at the same time and raising for roles and yet you still have time for a nap like I mean it's kind of funny but it's like she prioritize no actually this is what I need and I'm not going to let that wane and like crystal said she's in my voice now she and I had similar personalities in that way that we just sort of our life it'll be okay but I was a notch I'm an on-camera I'll get going on something and sometimes at the expense of things that are just the simple pleasures of life that I can hear winter saying but what do you want to do just do what you want to do do you need to sleep right now well let's sleep are we going to the movies let's go to the movies I mean it'll be the dishes will be there when we get back let's go to the movies you know and so I hear that in my head that that pulled towards the simple pleasures of life that really do give you the fuel you need to be productive in all the other areas of your life so I missed that you know I missed that in my friend that constant friend that's always like let's just let's go do the thing you know and we'll write again tomorrow and while we're writing by the way let's sit here and enjoy the coffee wheel like while we're right because he said let's get our fuzzy software on let's get up there's some blankets I mean if we're gonna do it we might as well do it in a way that is super enjoyable for us all along the way yes I appreciated her continued emphasis on self-care yeah it's a it's actually a lesson I've been learning because you know she passed on July 24th and from that moment on I didn't know whether I would because we were in a transition from Dallas to Nashville and I'm like I don't know does that need to stop I started questioning everything but the one thing I never questioned was does her ministry need to live on and will it live on and I was like nope that's happening like I'm on it like I'm doing it and so for last six months and my energy is I'm up when he enters down here I'm up here so I'm like okay what do we need to do who need to be on the team how do we I'm doing all that and I've heard her pretty much every day be like jonathon like slow down what are you doing you're doing too much like all day you know so yeah so I'm still I'm still learning it and she's still speaking that to me all the time and I'm still failing she's you know I just like she is but like she was and you were that you were the perfect complements to each other in that regard I love how the Lord does that he takes these puzzle pieces weaknesses and strengths on both sides and he fits them together yeah and you guys did that beautifully because you'd put a fire under her when she actually needed one this one like it was a bar line coming you were like that's great my favorite thing has it's all this but also it's kind of like a little thing me and went we would she would call me and we would tag team Jonathan if she had to go do something or believe in something bigger that that's my favorite thing she's like Anthony okay we need to convince Jonathan that we need to get this couch okay so just help me get this so that I mean all these things are beautiful right that's my favorite thing is when we would go on a vacation in the whole trip we'd be talking about how we're gonna convince John to let us go spin what do you a part of the house purchase to last your last three houses you know well I'm super conservative [Laughter] believing in what you're capable of and I saw what winter as well both y'all are capable of even when the books first started yeah cuz he whether it's the book thing or the house thing or whatever sorry that's I love that dynamic you know that well that's great yeah and what you don't a lot of you don't know about us and normally like I'd be on the other side of these cameras because I've supported all of them in some way but I worked directly for anthing for seven years and his music career and so he built like a friendship over I don't know yeah 15 years we have 15 years now and so I've worked with each of them as a part of working with Anthony and then we work together when I worked for their dad we're never been alternative his national ministry so then Wynter helped me but you know she said cuz he do what you doing you got there cuz Pitts talked about working with me and so I'll just say Quay into that just for a second so if it winter were not our cousin if we were not related and Jonathan Pitts who just worked with me for seven years I would still be sitting here because of my belief in him yes as a as a human being like my whole ministry I've said this before one other time in public my whole ministry is built on his faithfulness to the heart of people not just building ministries and making sure that right now if he is about the heart of people so that's my belief in Jonathan and then on top of that the family dynamic makes it huge but I would be sitting here if winter were not our cousin I'd be sitting here with you because of because of my belief and you and I just have to let every everybody know that that there's it's it's multi-layered here this is very linear at least yeah yeah we all feel that same way in the sense that it feels like such a gift to us that winter gave us you you listen and when I look at my you know now I'm gonna cry but when I look at my little nieces those four girls what a gift that winter gave her daughters you I mean you are like you are our brother you are our family and so it just like Anthony said even if we weren't by all of you I mean I'm connected via family we'd still be here because you are spectacular in every way it's the same thing that Sean said Sean sit at the funeral this winter Sean's winters brother and I just remember him saying people say well now you're the only one because you lost your one's only child because you lost your one sibling in these states no I'm not because I gained a brother yes you're a brother for sure brother for sure that's why I'm glad just to be sent with yours I feel the same way like and the fact that we're still connected like we did Christmas with them and our kids did Christmas together and just I mean that's what we're gonna do we're gonna you like together but I'm grateful to have like done life with them like very deeply but also to have worked in all of their ministries at some level I've been a part of all the stuff they're doing but just I do want to share a little bit about what's next because one of the beautiful things about winter and one of the simplicity I don't you know how she did it but God allowed her to God gave her a vision for a ministry for girls I remember looking back at a facebook video she did in 2011 when she was starting for girls like you and at that point she had literally borrowed a laptop down into the free version of Adobe design and started creating something and I'm like what does this girl do it is two o'clock in the morning and she just felt like she needed to create compelling content for girls that was both entertaining but also christ-centered got honoring however you want to say it she just felt like the content that was out there for her then seven year old our daughter Alena that it wasn't it was either too mature like in terms of content or too baby and there was nothing in between for tween girls so she started to create this resource and I'm sitting there thinking to myself like what is she doing like she I was trying to get her to do hair cuz she could make a couple extra dollars a week doing here literally quit she quit her job she was a grant writer quit her job to come home because she felt he should be home with her girl so she did that and God was just asking her to engage with her girls I never forget it Psalms 37 five delight yourself in the Lord he will give you the desires of your heart and so she started to blame herself in the girls and God gave her to her her desires which were too right she always wanted to write when I married her she said I want to write a book and I'm like write a book about what and she's like I don't know and I'm like I'll figure that not first you know a beautiful is because she didn't have that figured out she allowed God just to speak about what he wanted yeah and that's what she'd be gonna do so she started with a borrowed laptop and a trial version of Adobe InDesign did that with two more laptops two more trial versions don't tell the do because she pride was cheating the system but anyway full fledged ministry that she was doing on her own like we'd never hired anybody it was winter designing land and laying it out producing it working with the printer all that and then other resources she was developing resources she was developing as well and just she continued to do it day after day faithfully saying no to other stuff and God just blessed that and so when she passed like I knew that needed to go on the brand had grown bigger than her and the sense that was God's vision it was God's mission she was doing it and she built it but what's neat about winter is she would never want to engage and what was next in terms of like beyond the creation she didn't care about distributed now that she didn't care but she wasn't didn't want to be involved in distribution didn't know it wasn't her call she wanted to be involved the marketing knew it wasn't her call she didn't want to be involved in like anything that was behind the scenes that wasn't her like she was a creator so it's like God birth in her that is our decree she created what was hers to create set up the foundation of this ministry and then she moved on like she accomplished dr. Evans always says acts 13 says that David was a third of the firmament David said David's are the purposes of God in his generation and then he fell asleep and the reality is we all have purpose that God's given us and then we're gonna fall asleep one day and once I fell asleep having accomplished the work that God gave her to do yeah that makes me grateful but I want to what I feel like I'm convicted of is that her ministry needs to go on and that the brand is growing that there's so much opportunity for the ministry so many partners so many girls out there already they're being blessed by the content and that she set up the philosophy and now we're continuing that continuing that philosophy it's simple it's relevant it's beautiful it's appreciating beauty and design the way that a lot of ministries forgot about and so not to say anything bad about any other ministries but the reality is that there's a specific way that she's done ministry that she's created the ministry to work that we all now know and we're going to continue and in the last six months gotta set people around me put people around me a lot of them are right behind this camera right now that have been working in the ministry to help it go on and help it grow and the reason I know that it needs to go on is because in the last six months her ministry in terms of subscribers has tripled and God's just blessing and just increasing what she's doing and then he's sending me a team to work on it so we're here today just to talk about the fact that that's going to go on it needs to go on and we need your help because the only way it goes on that publishing is an interesting thing especially magazines it's a very niche thing but it's not really profitable what I always joke about is that for girls like you has always been a for-profit nonprofit like once I've never made a dime on this ministry it wasn't something it was all passion so she was doing it investing in it just to simply just make sure that keeps going on not because she was making a bunch of money doing it so what we've decided to do is turn it into a nonprofit that way we can continue to support and push forward the work that God is birthed in the ministry through winter and so we're asking for you to join us in that effort if you've got it for girls like you com4 slash next chapter which I think should be linked on all these different ways you're watching you can find out more about that how you can get involved just from subscribing to our our newsletter or you can actually give today at that place as well but just wanted to show that we're really excited about it I believe in it that's all I've ever done actually well not all but most of what I've done over the last 15 years is working the backgrounds of ministry and keep ministry flourishing so God's even created me and built me in a way where I can continue this all and kind of manage all those pieces and be a part of that and I have four girls so I'm still really passionate about this work so they don't want anybody wants anything I mean I just think you know one thing that that I can't do that winter did great is is I have three girls but I was five kids but I've got five kids so we're rolling we're in the middle of the woods with no navigation okay three girls but just being able to impact on a large scale and bless girls you know and girls be a focus you know especially in our culture today just girls being a focus and helping them to realize that God wants to do big things in their lives too yeah and so you know a lot of a lot of people you know don't know how to do that but not you do because you can be a part of someone that God is specifically blessed to do that and and giving is just as is just as important as what is gonna be achieved through winters ministry because that's how it's been turned into because it was for profit with the subscribers now it's a nonprofit which allows you to be a part of something that you originally couldn't be a part of if you don't have daughters so you don't know how to little s girls like that so now it opens the door for everybody to be a blessing yeah one more thing I'll say about that so we'll still have subscribers you can still subscribe just like you would have before as a mom of a girl but three things that ones are always wanted to do one was published and she did that for the magazine we're gonna continue to publish the magazine but we're also gonna publish other resources for girls and their parents the second thing that wins are always wanted to do and she talked a lot to Anthony about this was events like girls events because her desire was to show the girls that that regular girls could do big things for God so like she's an example that these girls are an example that our daughter Alina who was in war room is an example of that like she was a regular little girl when she started this magazine and all the sudden Alina lands this part in this movie and she's a regular girl doing big things for God so we want to produce events that will allow girls to see regular girls doing big things for God I think another but can i interject - sure I think another aspect about the ministry that I think needs to be highlighted was winters interest in diversity and in reflecting that in her resources so this is you mentioned war room so I'll bring this up because this is just kind of a little small little thing in conjunction with the bigger picture of diversity but when we were on the set of War Room as he said alena their oldest daughter is the one who played my daughter in war room and there was this huge conversation with the directors and the writers and everything about me and Elena's hair about what our hair needed to look like in this film and I was pretty adamant about the fact that I felt like it needed to be our natural african-american hair which is its own it needs its own continuity over days and everything and winter was like it was so important to her that we look like black women who we are on screen that literally if you look at the end of war room you'll see winter pits has a credit for hair because she literally took her own hours on set where she was just there to govern her daughter and make sure that everything's good with her childhood but she got in there and had to spend hours helping us make sure our hair yeah was taken care of because that was important to her that the our diversity was reflected on film my point is that when you look at the cover of her magazines she's got black girls she's got white girl she's got Asian girls she's she's trying to make sure that everybody is represented as king and that it's Kingdom and that you're whoever you are and whatever your daughters look like your children are biracial in a sense that she wants to make sure that they all feel represented and and valued that holiday look is significant that God planned it that they don't have to fit in with a mold to be pretty that they can be exactly who they are when their hair texture and their skin color and all of that stuff and that God celebrates them exactly how that's how they are and that they should too and I appreciated that about winter and she invested herself and making sure that was shown in the resources she put it's actually I joined this family and this ministry that I've worked in for the last 15 years up until recent like it's who y'all are so I just love that we can do that in a very authentic way like Anthony's it's just like natural it's just who we are it's the air we breathe that's what we want to do but yeah so publishing continuing the magazine growing the magazine publishing other resources events which we plan to do two events in 2020 and then also the other thing that we wanted to do was missions trips like she always wanted to take girls on missions trips to expose these girls to a bigger world to a bigger Kingdom apart over there there to be investing in and being a part of so you know like that those are the three main things that we will do as a ministry so it's a growing kind of expanding thing and so if you're just joining us sorry if you're just joining us go back what's most about the end here but just what encourage you guys to be a part of that to join us in this on this journey and to join us in this effort we need your help we need your support a lot of you have already been apart in some ways of being subscribers I've loved seeing like amazing messages just from moms and thanking us for just winters investment in her girls that led to an investment in their girls and just the commitment to it and it's really grateful for them and where do they where do they do that if you go to four girls like you calm foreign / next chapter you'll see more about just what the next chapter looks like we'll also be opportunities to give right there you can support us move both monthly and just with a one-time gift you can also go just to the four girls like you calm and you'll see it there as well but for girls like me calm for / next chapter yeah and again you're investing in the lives of there's so many cameras you're investing in the lives you don't have to be a father of a bunch of girls or a mother of a bunch of girls to invest in something like this and I'd not I don't know why I just feel like I want to say that if you are looking for an opportunity to make a difference in somebody's life this is something that you can do and we can vouch for not just because again it's because it's family it's because we know that our cousins setup something that is very focused about an intentional about changing lives so again that's that's why we're here in support and the thing is she was doing it for her for girls she did not know it would be this she was just doing something that she wanted to do to make an investment in her or and it mushroomed into this and so you can you can know that it's soil that is good soil worth sowing a seed into when it was something a mom produced out of the goodness of her heart for her own for it was important it wasn't a problem there was no publishing company behind it it wasn't shiny and savvy it was just what can I do for my girls to help them to value their significance and to lead them toward the Lord at the same time and so anyway I I just think we're always trying to find ways to feed into our children good things and also as believers we're looking for opportunities to partner with organizations that are really doing the thing and we're trying to find who how do I know how do I know where to sell my seed of prayer encouragement but also finances and we're just saying this is a doggone good one this is a doggone good thing you know I would just add that if you are a woman you may know this firsthand if you're a man you may have seen this firsthand but what a woman learns about herself happens so largely in this this specific time when you're an elementary girl everybody's like yeah you know yeah when you're a teenage girl you kind of things have been cemented but right here in this twin spot is when stuff can attach itself to you that you see in terms of your own identity how you see the world your worldview what you think about God and this is just a sweet spot that winter poured herself into so if you've been that girl who kind of got a little tilted during that sweet spot or you're the mother of our aunt or a big sister or grandmother and you want to ensure that there's a resource available to the own young girls in your life your own young girls or girls of other people you know this is a way to say hey this is a sweet spot and I want to be a part of making sure that girls during this season get right messaging get messin the messaging that is based in the Word of God that that the what the world is telling them about them that there's another message and there are not a lot of messages at all for this age group out there in the world particularly as it relates to what God would have young women know and so you know so much of what we try to fix when we're adults we need to look at fixing or supporting when kids are in that season and this does that and so this is a really unique opportunity to partner in that way yeah so persona if you can really quickly I know you know obviously you're known for your teaching and like one of the things that once you really wanted to infuse into the magazine we call it kind of edutainment like edutainment being both educational and entertainment but truth was always a big deal for her so if you can just encourage moms encourage parents like 1/y truth matters or just encourage these people that are trying to do these things for their girls while they're in this vulnerable space like just talk about whatever you would talk about well I would say it kind of brings up something that I was thinking a few moments ago and that was just the encouragement to two parents that right where you are in the season that you're are you are with young children around you like you said just trying to navigate a season where you're unfamiliar and you feel like you you're not sure you're doing the right thing or whatever just do what you can like what can you do it doesn't have to look a certain way or be all shiny and savvy and flashy and amazing and worth instagramming just what can you do with three or four kids that are sitting around your table all of those little things matter winter is just a shining example of that that she just did what she could with the borrowed computer and to produce information and insight for her own children and what she wanted to instill in them was was an appreciation for an incorporation of truth in their life as Jonathan mentioned and truth is something that is so relative these days in people's mind it's wavering everybody's supposed to have their own standard of truth and be happy and whatever you want to do if your kid doesn't have an anchor they're gonna be so pushed to the left and to the right they're gonna falter underneath the pressure of culture that is telling them that there's no set standard that they just need to sort of enjoy their life without having any anchor any compass at all but without a compass a ship is going to sail off off course and so the question is what creative ways can you use as a parent to put truth into the life of your kid well we were growing up it happened a lot around the dinner table my mom and dad would prioritize dinner mom would actually make a meal home-cooked meal which seems like you know so difficult now that I'm a mother but um she would do it and now I know that that took intentionality and a lot of dedication to make sure we had a whole you know we sat around the table four or five times a week and then dad would share truth he would give us a devotional and just in case you think we were all cherubs and sat there just like this listening to our Father dr. Tony Evans share truth please get the opposite picture in your mind exactly what your kids look like when you're trying to share truth with them it's exactly what we look like was dancing yeah it was chaos we turned out okay and the nuggets that they shared with us then they even though I'm sure to my parents look like I wasn't even registering because it was so much chaos at the table trying to get us to just listen for two minutes those things registered with us they anchored us they came back to our mind in our teenage years in our 20s and even now there are little things that will bubble up in my mind and heart while I'm speaking or if someone asked like your question-and-answer session sometimes in front of a large group somebody asked the question and I will hear myself responding not out of something that I can remember studying on my own per se it's just the Nuggets are in there from sitting around the dinner table as a kid and my dad given us some truth and so I just want to encourage you to give your kids some anchor of truth and that's what resources like this will help you do you stick that magazine in their hand and say hey just read this enjoy it on our car ride to run errands today and watch how those little little seeds just take root and blossom in your life so you know the anchor of our ministry is for girls like you magazine that has blossomed into so much more but the anchor that magazine is Jesus and you know that that's what Winchell was building was this ministry that would just just promoted and push forward Jesus and you know more than anything else like I love what you said like it was all about intentionality not perfection like once your perfection was never the top but the top of her mind it was just intentionality just get it done getting it done getting it done and that's the commitment we have we have a commitment to intentionality intentionality in our ministry and seeking perfection which would be Jesus so we just would invite you guys to join us in that journey if you go to four girls like me com4 slash next chapter we'd love for you to join us we appreciate your time I know I think we were supposed to go like 20 minutes it feels like it's been two hours but it's good a lot of fun I appreciate you guys but I appreciate you joining us we'd love for you to join us on this in this next chapter love you guys

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Published: Sun Feb 03 2019