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Ep #3: Brandy Beck

Ep #3: Brandy Beck

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 Brandy is my good friend and the Women’s Ministry Director at Desert Springs Church in Albuquerque, NM. We discuss God as Our Father, the spiritual disciplines of prayer and Scripture memory, and why Leviticus is her favorite book of the Bible. Episode Transcript(NOTE: Transcript is auto-generated. Errors may exist throughout.)Emily: Hello, I'm Emily Stewart and this is who I wanna be when I grow up. I'm very pleased to welcome my next guest, Brandy Beck. Brandy is the Women's Ministry Director of Desert Springs Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I've been a member of this church since November of 2020, and Brandy and I have been friends since August of 2021. I'm very excited for you to hear our conversation, so let's get into it. Brandy, welcome to the show. Brandy: Hi. Thanks for having me. Emily: so first most obvious question, as hopefully our listeners will know by now. Brandy, what did you wanna be when you grew up? Brandy: Oh, I wanted to be an architect. Emily: I. Ooh, I like that. Tell me more about that. Brandy: Yeah. Well, I just loved design and art, um, buildings, glass structure, those sorts of things.So that's what I thought I was going to be. And then I realized how much math you have to take. Yeah. Emily: I'm, mm-hmm. Yeah. I had a friend, uh, who was an architecture major in college, and I was just amazed by how much. Non-art related knowledge she had to have because like in order for buildings not to fall down or to stay up or be structurally sound, you have to know all this other stuff.I was like, that sounds really hard. Brandy: Exactly. So I thought, well, maybe I'll just change directions. Mm-hmm. Emily: So what did you end up doing from there if you decided architecture's not my thing. Where did you kind of redirect? Brandy: I studied education. I graduated with my, um, bachelor's in education early ele el early elementary childhood.Emily: Nice. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And did so did you have a career in that to start out with? Brandy: I did. I taught a pre-k, k, first grade, multi-age classroom in Austin, Texas. Emily: Nice. Brandy: Um, for about four years. Emily: Okay. Very cool. So, backtracking a little bit to your college years. Um, obviously I know you pretty well, I know your story, I know how you came to faith, but just so our listeners know, um, you get to college, you're studying early childhood education, and then you come to faith in Christ.So what was that like and how did that redirect you? Maybe not in your career, but in other ways. Brandy: Yeah, absolutely. Well, I had kind of hit a low point in life just, um, sort of struggling to find my way, figure out who I was supposed to be, what I needed to do, and, um, a friend of mine invited me to a campus crusade for Christ, um, worship night.So I ended up going to that and signed up for a Bible study. And through that Bible study, um, received Jesus as my savior. And yeah, that's how, that's how it all happened. Emily: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Was it, would you say it was like a. More steady transition into, oh, I think this is what I wanna do. Or would you say it was more sudden and more decisive for you to wanna follow Jesus?Brandy: Oh, I think it was pretty sudden. Um, I was raised knowing about God. Um, on my father's side there, um, that whole side of the family is Mormon and on my mother's side there was, they are Church of Christ, and then my stepmother was Baptist, so I knew a little bit about. Faith and about God. It was a little bit muddled growing up, but it was always something that was intriguing to me and that I found beautiful but didn't really understand.Um, no one had ever clearly explained the gospel to me, so I didn't know what it meant to put your faith in Christ. I just had this general concept of believing in God. Um, so when I went to that Bible study and it was just a basic. Really introduction to the gospel type of Bible study. It was so profoundly beautiful to me and wonderful.And it was just like all of these lights flipped on. Um, and I remember just that sweet, that sweet evening in my dorm room, October 26th, 1989. Mm. Emily: Wow, that's amazing. Did you like do the Pray the Prayer thing? Was there a prayer that you prayed or what was that like? Brandy: There wasn't a specific prayer, um, which I think there probably was in the Bible study, just the book, you know, just because that's pretty typical of Campus Crusade.But I just remember sitting, I was in my dorm room by myself and sort of journaling and praying and. I don't even remember exactly what I said, but just knowing, Lord, this is it. This is what I want. This is what I need. I, I am so excited by this reality and by this truth, and I want to follow you. Emily: Yeah. Wow. That's amazing. Praise God. So after you became a Christian, presumably you're still involved with Campus Crusade and stayed plugged in there. Mm-hmm. What were some other factors or other people that continue to help you grow in your faith and really honestly get you interested...
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