The One Thing Your School District Needs Most, with Fern Nichols and Mel Wubs

Imagine what would happen if every member of the Grounded sisterhood adopted a campus and prayed for God to move. In this episode, you’ll hear from Fern Nichols, a woman who has been praying for God to move for years. She’ll inspire you to pray for the schools in your community, whether you have school-aged kids or not! 

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Episode Notes

• Samaritan’s Purse website
• “A Grandmother’s Gospel Ministry” video
• Moms in Prayer website 
• “The Mighty Influence of a Praying Mom” video  

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Portia Collins: What would happen if every member of the Grounded sisterhood adopted a campus and started to pray for God to move in that school? I'm Portia Collins. And this is Grounded.

Erin Davis: Ooh, that's something that's exciting to think about. I'm Erin Davis. 

And you might be wondering where's Dannah Gresh? By the way, she's serving the Lord in the Dominican Republic. She will be back soon. 

You have probably already heard of the revival that broke out on the campus of Asbury University last month. And you've probably heard – I hope you've heard because we've been trying to tell you – that that revival is now spreading to college campuses around the world. 

So, one thing we want to do is celebrate that God is at work and He is working in schools. And He's pushing back the darkness on many campuses. And we admit there is a lot of darkness.

Portia: Yes, yes. You know, I love it when we say pushing back the darkness. 

Erin: That’s what we do here on Grounded. 

Portia: Yes, it honestly is what the Lord does through us.

Erin: Mmm, that’s right. 

Portia: It’s His light that pushes that darkness back. And you know, I'm just so grateful that we can be a part of that. In fact, I am happy that we have a guest today who we see that the Lord is working through her. She has been praying for God to move in schools for many years. And I've got a hunch that she's not content just to see God at work in a handful of campuses. 

Erin: That's a good hunch. She has already got us fired up and eager just in our pre-meeting before we started going live. So, Fern Nichols is with us. She's the founder of Moms in Prayer International. If you don't know about Moms in Prayer International, today is an important day for you. Because that's an organization that's founded on the belief that moms and grandmoms and aunts and neighbors can make a difference by praying for kids and schools. And she's gonna get you fired up to pray for the schools in your community, which is exciting to me, because no matter where you live, there is a school district in your community, and she's going to rally us to pray whether you have school aged kids or not. This is a call for everybody.

Portia: Yes, I am ready. I'm ready, ready, ready. 

Erin: Good.

Portia: God’s Helping Hands Learning Academy is actually where my sweet Emmy goes to school. 

Erin: Ooo I love the name of that school, God’s Helping Hands Learning Academy. So cute. 

Portia: Yes, and look, she will tell you too honey, it's like somebody will ask her, “Emmy, where do you go to school?” And she’ll say, “God's Helping Hands Learning Academy!”

Erin: I can picture it. 

Portia: That is where she goes. And I want to pray for God to work in her life and in the lives of her teachers and her classmates. And I know I'm excited because Fern is going to coach us up on how to do that. All right, but first, you know what we need, we need some good news. Give it to us, Erin. 

Erin: I get to be the good news girl, again, which I just love putting a smile on your faces. I am grateful to be the one to bring the sunshine today. Today's good news comes from a really unlikely place. When I say it, you're not necessarily going to think of it as a place of good news – Turkey. 

That's the site of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. There's actually been some follow up tremors since then. And so far, the number is 40,000 people, last I read. But the number of those who were killed or lost their lives because of that earthquake continues to climb. And of course, it's left countless others homeless. 

And there's a special team of people who run toward those kinds of crises. Our guest Mel Wubs is here to tell us about it. She is – I want to get this right – a technical specialist with the International Health Unit of Samaritan's Purse, and she's been the medical field director for emergency field hospitals in lots of hard places, including Mosul, Iraq, the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian, Haiti after the earthquake that rocked that island and 2021. She served at the New York Respiratory Care Unit at the height of COVID-19. And today, she is coming to us from Turkey. She is comforting the suffering there. Welcome to Grounded Mel.

Mel Wubs: Thank you so much for having me.

Erin: You're gonna notice Mel's audio is not super clear. That's because she's actually in the field hospital in Turkey. There's generators going and we’re so grateful she could be with us. Mel, you were one of the first on the ground when the ministry of Samaritan's Purse came there after that earthquake hit. Can you describe what arriving in Turkey was like for you?

Mel: Yeah. So, I was on the ground here in Turkey on Tuesday, I was actually elsewhere around the globe. So, it was a short flight for me to get here. Down here in Antakya on Wednesday and Thursday, those first days after the earthquake it was overwhelming. I've been in disasters, like you said, around the world and here just the scope of the devastation was huge. 

It wasn't just one house. It was blocks of houses. It was apartment buildings. And at that time, the search was still on for survivors. There was heavy equipment. People gathered around places where they could hear people calling for help. And it was just overwhelming. The devastation that we saw in those first few days.

Erin: Yeah, I've been overwhelmed just seeing the pictures. Part of me is wanting to look away as I think of those children trapped under the rubble and families being separated. But Samaritan's Purse – this is what you do. You quickly set up a field hospital. You're in that hospital right now. You're the hospital director and a nurse. What kinds of needs did you see in those first days after the quake?

Mel: Yeah, so in those first days after the quake, we were able to set up and start seeing people quickly. What we were seeing primarily those first few days was trauma from the earthquake. So those would be broken bones, things like that even though we were seven days out, we were still seeing people who had not sought medical care. There was no active hospital here. Anybody who was requiring care was being transferred hours away. 

So, one of the best things that is so important to me is to be able to provide geographically relevant care. So not only are you providing better clinical care, because people don't have to travel for hours to get care, but they're also close to their home, they're close to their loved ones, to be able to support them, and to also just to be able to transition back to life without trying to worry about traveling for hours. 

So, a really hard thing about being so close, like, literally meters away from us is a 1,000 bed hospital that's damaged beyond words. But to be so close to be able to be close to the patients close to their needs, is just what is really, really good about being here in this hard place.

Erin: That makes so much sense. And I've never thought of it, but as your healing, of course, you want to be near those who love you and be in your own area. What are conditions like now? Has there been any stabilization in the region?

Mel: So, I would say that the difference I see in town from those first days after the earthquake to now is – the devastation is still here. That second earthquake rocked very close to this area last Monday. But what is different now is the lack of people, people have moved, they've gone to stay with family, they've gone to stay with friends, there's no services here. There's no infrastructure, the water system, the power, the gas, everything was severely damaged, making it a very hard place to continue to live.

Erin: We have a singular mission here on Grounded, to give away hope and perspective. So, I appreciate you letting us see the real horror, the real tragedy of what's going on there in Turkey. Do you have any stories of hope in the midst of such heartbreak?

Mel: Yeah, we do as heartbreaking as it is, we also see hope every day, in our patients that come. We received one survivor, a 14-year-old boy who had been pulled from the rubble after eight days. And he was miraculously, fairly uninjured for all of that. 

So, we were able to provide care for him close here. His family members who had survived, were able to be with him, and were able to just show love and care to him. So that was incredible. 

The other kind of major story that sticks out in my head is another family, a mother, a father, their son was unfortunately killed in the earthquake. And they were crushed in their home. The woman had severe kidney damage from all of the crushed muscles that are released into the bloodstream. And her husband had tried to take her to a few places to get care. But most, like I said, there was no acute care in this area. 

And he was just so scared that he would lose his wife, like he lost his son. And then he heard about our hospital. And he brought her to us. And he was able to receive care for some broken bones. But we were able to have her in the ICU. And she's still here with us, and just doing so well. So that's just kind of one story of just this healing. That's happened. 

Yeah, there's mothers and fathers who have children who have been injured in the earthquake, or also just have illness. There's a lot of hopelessness, their homes are gone. They don't know what their future holds. But they're able to meet their child's healthcare needs. By bringing them here, we were able to just reassure them, treat them, but also just kind of provide a little bit of a break in their day.

Erin: I have a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old so the thought of that 14-year-old boy being buried under the rubble for eight days, puts a lump in my throat, so grateful you're there. You know, Samaritan's Purse doesn't just provide medical care, you're there to share the love of Jesus. And part of how we want to use this good news segment is to tell the story of people doing good news in Jesus's name. Are you seeing people's hearts open to the truth of the gospel?

Mel: Yes, I think if they've all gone through so much trauma, but especially in our patients who have a chance to stay with us for a few days. And that means that if they have something severely wrong with them, or they need surgery, but we're able to provide just a comforting, safe place. 

We're in a tent, so they don't feel like it will fall. And just yesterday, I saw half of our women's ward outside – the nurses had moved them outside and they're talking, they're having tea, were able to wash their hair and just kind of just care for them and share that love. And yeah, people are asking questions. Why are you here? Why are you so filled with joy? Why do you care for me? And that provides an opportunity to share the gospel with them.

Erin: So beautiful Mel, that thought of women having their hair washed in the sunshine at the site of so much horror. It’s so tender. We want to pray. There's so much we can't do. But we can pray, can you give us some specific ways to pray for you and your team and the people of Turkey and Syria, and then I'll go ahead and pray for you?

Mel: Yeah, I think most importantly, just pray for the people here who have lost so much in their future, their future is so uncertain. Just that they feel the love of God has His comfort to them, and their eyes would be open to that. 

Pray for my team, they work incredibly long hours. We’re in a concrete parking lot. So, you spend 12 to 16 hours a day on your feet on concrete, just pouring out so much to the people who are here. So just that their hearts will be filled with joy. And that God just gives them strength.

Erin: Yeah, let's pray right now. And Grounded sisters, I would encourage you wherever you are, drop to your knees and pray. There's a huge need here. Let me pray. 

Jesus, we love You. And you love every single person impacted by this earthquake. And though we humanly are surprised by it, You are not. And so, we just pray for Your Holy Spirit to infuse that place. Lord, we pray for those who have lost their homes, have lost the people they love, who have the terror of not knowing where their loved ones are, maybe because they're still buried under the rubble. God, those needs are too big for any human being in any government, but they're not too big for You. So, we pray that You would just move and that hearts would be turned to You. 

And I pray for Mel, I thank you for her heart to serve the least of these. I pray for her team, God. They cannot do this in their own strength, but they don't have to. 

So, I pray that You would infuse them with supernatural compassion, supernatural energy, and that they would just have everything they need out of your riches and glory than anything of their own God. Please press this into our hearts. Rally Your people to continue to pray for this area. These needs aren't going away soon. 

So, help us to partner with Mel in prayer. We love You. It's in Your name I pray. Amen. 

Mel, thank you so much for being on Grounded.

Mel: Thank you. 

Erin:We're going to drop the link to Samaritan's Purse, there's a place right there on the homepage, where you can give to this hospital where Mel is serving, we're going to drop the link to make that easy for you. That's one way we can support God's people who have rushed into this really heartbreaking situation. 

Well, while we certainly want to encourage you to pray for those suffering in Turkey and Syria, the point of the focus of this episode is to call you to pray for those living probably much closer to home. So, we want you to listen to this very short clip from Russell Moore. He's going to share about the profound impact of his praying grandma, before we hear from Fern. Let's watch.

Russell Moore: I would, humanly speaking, not be a Christian today. If it had not been for my grandmother who lived next door. She was a pastor's widow. And she not only prayed for me consistently, she was the one who made sure that I was at church, that I was under the teaching of the Word and God used her example and her direct influence on my life, to lead me to Christ. 

We lost her this year at the age of 88. But everything about my life has her all over it – her witness and her leadership. And I think that many of the women who are being used the most powerfully, probably don't know where that power is being used at the moment. Because they're carrying out their lives that they're operating out of their intuitions, and God is God is using that and embedding it in places that they don't know. I don't think my grandmother knew, specifically that she was evangelizing or discipling her grandson, she was just living her Christian life. And she cared about her family and she was seeking to do that. And God used it. 

So, I think sometimes we want to sort of look back and say, “where is my ministry right now?” Sometimes we don't even know. Sometimes God's using our lives in ways we can't really chart out and see.

Portia: The sweet blessing of a praying grandmama. I've got two of those. Well it is time to get grounded with God's people. Fern Nichols is here with us. She felt an urgent need to rally moms to pray when her own children were in school. And now that passion has turned into a global movement. Welcome to Grounded Fern.

Fern Nichols: Well, I am first of all just so taken back and so blessed by that testimony. Yay for grandmas!

Portia: Yes, yay for grandmas. Absolutely. Well, Fern….

Fern: I'm so happy to be here. 

Portia: Yeah, we're happy to be with you!

We are so happy to have you, you are a joy. And I am excited to be able to be the one to talk to you today. So take us back to when your children were school aged. What motivated you to ask other moms to pray with you for your children's school?

Fern: I love that question. Because it was a day of a crisis of belief, when I was sending my two oldest sons to the junior high school that wasn't very far from our home. And, as moms, we know this little bent in our kids’ lives and how that needs to be brought under the control of the power of the Holy Spirit, because they want to go their own way. 

And I just had this passion. I mean, I prayed for them all their life, even from the womb, but yet that day, when I gave them a kiss, and hug, and sent them off to school, I knew they needed more prayer. 

And I said, Lord, with all this going on at that school, I mean, I'm sending them into a battlefield, really, peer pressure and all of the things that would be coming, you know, they were brought up in faith, they accepted Christ. But I knew ,and we all know, that Satan wants to steal, kill, and destroy our kids. 

So, who's going to stand in the gap? And who are we going to bring with us to stand in the gap? We need an army for our children today. And so, I said, Lord, there must be one other mom that would take time out of her busy schedule and pray. And I was going to be an hour of prayer not talking about our concerns, or maybe your feeling of overwhelmedness or even discouragement, in light of raising children and maybe the school or whatever – we were going to bring it to the Lord who we knew was the powerful God who could change it.

Portia: Amen. Well, I was gonna say, you got well over just one mama to come with you. In fact, you said that your desire is to see every school in every city covered in prayer. And that is a God sized vision. But from what I see and know now, God has been really meeting that request. I just want to ask you; do you think it is possible? Do you think it's possible to see every school in every city covered in prayer?

Fern: You just get me going with your questions, girl, because we know that there's nothing impossible with the Lord. Jeremiah says “Ah Lord God, you've made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There's nothing too difficult for You.” 

Yes, when we look at all the schools of the world, and every child prayed for, it is a God sized task, Portia. 

So, we must ask the God that can do it. “Lord, would you put in the hearts of moms and grandmas and others, aunts, to come together and cry out for our children and the schools they so desperately need You.” 

And what I love about our ministry is as we get together and pray, evangelism praying is at the top, we pray for our children's salvation. “Today, Lord, open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light.” And we pray for the teachers and the administrators, our schools will change when lives are changed. 

And so why wouldn't we want every school to have a group of moms and grandmas praying for that school? So that the light can come into that school and pierce the darkness that's going on? So, you're right. It's a God sized task, and we give Him all the glory for the being in over 155 countries. I mean, this is the Holy Spirit. I just had a crisis of belief, and as one other mom to pray, and then the Holy Spirit took over.

Portia: Wow. So, tell us some stories of how you have seen God respond to women gathering together to pray for schools.

Fern: So many have said, the format, the prayer principles we use in that hour has truly helped them to learn how to pray. And you know what I asked the Lord to teach me to pray, you know, what's on Your heart? What's Your will? And for that hour that we pray together, we use God's Word, because that is what is truth. And that Word is what teaches us how to pray. 

So, when one of my sons in high school, going into college, went his own way and was a prodigal. When we cried out to God, it was His Word that taught us. I mean, Jesus said, “Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I'm going to pray for you that your faith will not fail. And when you return, [not if, when] you return, strengthen the brethren.” I cried that out for Ty and the women came alongside me in agreement prayer, praying the Word of God for Ty that his faith wouldn't fail in the midst of his wandering, and oh, my goodness, how the Holy Spirit answered that. Well, I have four children and 10 grandchildren. So, I can tell you there's been 1,000s of answers to prayer. 

God so convicted his heart, and he began to feel guilty. He decided to go to a church in San Diego and sat in the back pew. And later, he told me and mom, everything that pastor said, it was like he was looking right at me. He gave his life back to the Lord, going forward in any church, that wasn't even the one that we go to. And you know, God is so tender. He's so loving. All of His promises are backed by the honor of His name. 

So, what we learn as we continue to pray is to take His Word and His promises and put our precious children's name right in that verse. And so, I said, Lord, You prayed for Simon, I'm going to pray for Ty the same and pray his faith will fail. And when he comes back, you'll strengthen the brethren. He was on Dr. Dobson's program, sharing his story. And I tell you, it gave hope to so many moms who were in desperate situations with their kids.

Portia: Yes, absolutely. You know, not every woman watching or listening has school aged children, they may not even have children at all. And so, I want to know, how can we rally those women up? How can we invite them to pray for the school districts where they live? And honestly, why is it important for them to pray? Even if they don't have children or school aged children – why should they be linking arms with mamas to pray for these babies in the schools?

Fern: Because God wants us to. He says, When my people gather together, you know, and make sure their hearts are cleaned up, and cry out to Me, I'm going to hear those prayers. And I'm going to answer.We are in a war. And if you're in a war, you don't go to battle with two people or five people or ten people, you have an army of people. 

And so, you know what was so fun Portia? In one of our groups, a nanny who, you know her responsibility was the kids and being with them, and feeding them, and you know, helping – all the things that the nanny does. She realized she needed to pray for them and so she came to a Moms in Prayer group. In that area where those kids went to school. She felt that she needed to be a part of God's hearing and answering prayer for her kids, her little kids that she nannied plus the school.

Portia: I love it.

Fern: Portia, another thing I love about this ministry is that yes, it started with my own crisis of belief with my own children. But when we gather together, and we pray for one another's children, there is a love for other people's children. That is only by the Holy Spirit. But we are so grateful that we have the opportunity to pray for other people's children. And when they pray for my children, then we pray for my children's friends, to come to know Jesus, the most important thing is today be the day of salvation. 

Yes, for them to come to know the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, that He loves them, that He died for their sins and the victory of knowing that that happened. He raised from the dead. To know Jesus. And the power of His resurrection is what Paul said, I want to know Christ in the power of His resurrection, oh, Lord, that the girlfriend that my grandson has, she does not know You. And we are asking that she will want to know Christ. And the power of His resurrection, Lord, save her. Open her eyes turned her from darkness to light. So it's just a rippling effect of love. Prayer is love. Isn’t that true? 

Portia: Amen, prayer is love. You have stirred me up. My daughter's school is not very far from my house. And sometimes when they take a walk, they'll walk past the house. And I just love those babies. And sometimes they invite me to come and do chapel with them on Wednesdays. They are just such a blessing and talking to you has motivated me all the more to pray for those babies, and not just them, but their parents and those who teach them and care for them. I'm just, I'm ready. I'm excited. I'm geared up. And I am grateful. I'm grateful for you. Where can people find more information about Moms in Prayer?

Fern: We have a wonderful friendly website, MomsInPrayerInternational.org. And materials on there, we use a prayer sheet for the hour to keep us praying and not talking. And we start with praise. We worship the Lord, we look up first, and say God, You are sitting on the throne, and You are faithful. And You're the Redeemer, and You are kind and compassionate. 

And so, we take an attribute of God every week, and get the Scripture going on who God is. God wants us to know who He is. And so it builds our faith. Sometimes in other crises of belief just in life with some grandchildren right now who desperately need my prayers, as well as there's about 13 or 15 of us that meet every week on Zoom or at a place to pray for our grandkids. 

And I have this plaque on my wall. And it says “the Sovereignty of God”. And it says, “Fern, trust Me.” Well, I love that because how can we trust somebody we don't know. And praising Him for His attributes and characteristics builds our faith, trust in the God that we know. And He is sovereign and He says, “I have everything under control.”

Portia: Amen.

Fern: Amen.

Portia: Well, thank you for being with us today, Fern. You have motivated me and I'm sure you've done the same for our Grounded sisterhood. So, thank you and many blessings to you.

Fern: Thank you so much.

Portia: Hey, Erin, I hear that you're coming next. I mean, you know, we always have the people who get us grounded in God's Word before you even come. 

Erin: Yeah, Fern got us right there.

Portia: And I've got my Bible in fact, I've got a new Bible.

Erin: Okay, I'm gonna send you somewhere, maybe you haven't been in a while to the book of Nehemiah. that's where we're gonna go, I'm gonna make Fern’s tally go up, I'm gonna send adoption papers in the mail. 

So, you can just adopt me and my kids and pray for us. She gets me fired up. And what we're trying to say to you folks today is that vision every child and every school prayed for, you're a part of that, where can you start pressing into prayer. And I'm just gonna give you one more inspiration to take part in that idea.

Just this morning, I sent my four boys off to school, and I did what I do many mornings when I send those boys off to school, I catastrophize. Which means inside my head comes every possible horrible thing that could happen to my sons in the seven hours we are apart. And I've learned that the right response to that is not fear. And it's not even always just to tuck them further into my wings. But I pulled them in, and we prayed for each other. And I send them into their day. 

So, we're going to look at a place of Scripture that I think gives us inspiration to keep doing that. All mamas want to protect our kids, God's wired us that way. And grandmas. And just as people who love the kids in our church, we want to protect them from all the big stuff that can go wrong when our kids are at school, and the small stuff. And it doesn't matter what kind of school your kid is going to, there are challenges there. God's wired that in you to want to protect them.

But ultimately, I've had to realize that it's not my presence and protection that my kids need most. It's the Lord's. 

And there's a passage that the Lord directed me to early on in my parenting that I go back to again and again. Fern mentioned this phrase, she didn't even know what I was teaching. But she said who will stand in the gap? I'm not exactly sure if this passage is where that phrase comes from, but it certainly could. Listen to Nehemiah chapter 4, verse 14, “And I…” There's Nehemiah. “And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, ‘Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.’”

This is a great story to read to your kids because the people that Nehemiah was talking about here had hilarious names. Sanballat and Tobias. And Sanballat and Tobias were mocking the people of God. Every text is part of a context. Here's the context here. Nehemiah was leading God's people in rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem, which had been destroyed when Jerusalem was taken prisoner by some pagan armies as part of God's judgment on his people for not following Him. 

So, they're rebuilding the wall. Nehemiah is the leader of this rebuilding effort. And there's these naysayers Sanballat and Tobias and they showed up, and they were threatening the progress of this God-given assignment. And Nehemiah knew it’s from the Lord. 

And so, Nehemiah doesn't go down and insult Sanballat and Tobias, he doesn't get discouraged. No, he rallies God's people with these words, “don't be afraid. Remember the Lord who's great and awesome.” And then he says, “fight for your brothers, fight for your sons, for your daughters, your wives in your homes.” It was a very Braveheart moment. And Nehemiah said basically two things. Remember who God is. That's what Fern was just telling us. She was saying that when she gets discouraged, she remembers the sovereignty of God. 

And then Nehemiah said, when you know who God is, you’ve got to remember who you're fighting for. You're fighting for your family. 

So, are there battles to be fought about what's happening on school campuses in our day? Yeah, there are. And how do we fight them? Well, we could fight them by a lot of worrying, we could fight them with a lot of blaming, we could fight them with making decisions for how we parent our kids that are fear based. Fears are gonna come and go. And there's plenty to be afraid of. I wouldn't stand here and say that nothing terrible can happen to your child in school. I can't stand here and say that your child who you've raised to know the Lord will never have a crisis of faith. Fern just told us how her own child who she raised to know the Lord had his crisis of faith. 

When those things happened, Scripture says, Remember the Lord who's great and awesome, and stand in the gap Nehemiah was standing in the literal gap in the wall. He was standing shoulder to shoulder with God's people and he was Saying, fight, fight for your families in the name of the Lord. 

So, we fight. And we fight. Do we fight against things that we don't want in our school’s curriculum? Yeah, there's a time and place for that. Do we fight against things that maybe are lies our children have learned in school and they need to be redirected towards truth? Absolutely. That's part of family discipleship. 

But the first way we fight, the most effective way we fight for it – Fern just called us to it – is through prayer. So, I asked you again, will you adopt the school district in your area? Will you stand in the gap? Maybe literally, the gap in education, the gap in truth, the gap in whatever the gap is here in my district, we have a real gap of teacher retention. It's hard to keep teachers these days. Will you stand in the gap through prayer? Portia, I’m fired up. We got to end this show, so I can hit my knees and pray. How about you?

Portia: I was just about to say, “yes, I will stand in the gap.” Okay?

Erin: Yes, I know you will. 

Portia: Yes. And I know that there are some other Grounded sisters out there who are shouting the same.

Erin: Yeah. Tell us you'll stand in the gap. Tell us what district you're going to cover in prayer. I mean, I'm just imagining, what could the Grounded sisterhood do alone, in covering the districts that we represent? What if we did a lot less complaining? And a lot more praying? So that's your commissioning. No gray area, black and white. Are you going to pray for your district? Or are you not? 

We're going to end today's episode a little differently. We want to show you just a clip of our most watched video ever. In fact, last time we checked it had well over 2 million views. And there's a reason for that because this vote video focuses on the remarkable power of just one praying mom. 

So, if you're not already fired up, and how could you not be I don't know. If you're not already fired up. Just check out this clip and then maybe watch the full video. But that's how we want to end our episode.

Portia: Yes, yes. And hurry back here next week. Because we've got the husbands episode 

Erin: The husbands.

Portia: That means Bob Gresh, Jason Davis, and my very own boo, Mkhail Collins will be in the Grounded studio joining us. We're going to have some fun, and I'm excited. 

Erin: Maybe some smooches. Who knows? Anything could happen.

Portia: And guess what, I want y’all to keep praying. Pray mamas, pray. Now, let’s watch.
 

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