 Welcome to this very special edition of sister to sister. You know what? It's our 10th anniversary. In amazing 10 years it has been. It's awesome to see how the relationships have built and also with you at home that you're watching and supporting in our wonderful live audience that we have with us. Such a joy, Kathy. So stay tuned. Privilege of hosting the program today and we know that you are is the producer of How did it all begin? Oh, let me go back to this story. It was back in a long time ago. It was back in 2013 where the leadership here at Cornerstone Television decided they wanted to show much like the view that it comes from a biblical perspective that we can answer the questions of the day and all the struggles that women and men sometimes who want to admit that they watched the show go through and but from a biblical perspective from wonderfully opinionated ladies. So we did auditions. We had over 30 women respond to our audition call. We didn't think anybody would respond but 30 women responded. You were one of them. And that's how you came to Cornerstone Television but we ended up with these fabulous five that we have right here. And it's been 10 years of this original cast. Yes. What a blessing. Yes. 10 years to get original same fantastic five. And now I'm gonna get out of the way and let you take over. I have some questions. All right ladies. The first question is what were your initial reactions and feelings about being a part of this show? Well I've got to start with the scripture. You know girls I do. Romans 11 and I'm sure a beautiful audience knows it. Gods gifts and calling are without repentance. He doesn't regret it. He doesn't revoke it. It's irrevocable. But guess what? We don't often know what our gifts and calling are do we? That was me. Robin emailed me. I said I don't have time. I'm a lawyer. But I love CTV and I love the ecumenical nature. My parents and I were here at the ground broken when I was just a teenager. But I didn't understand. She emailed me again. Oh no. Then John one of the former producers. I said I know Johnson C was little I better respond. So I came. Kathy didn't know I was sitting next door. She didn't really know who I was but she's as friendly as anything. So we have to understand sometimes it takes a push, a nudge, someone else seeing something in you that you don't see in yourself. And that's the beautiful thing about this show and how it started and I almost wasn't here at all. We're glad you're here. Well I think with all of us we all have our own gifts but when God called us to see TV for this we all answered the call for service. And Roxanne is our scripture person. Every question. So thank you for the scripture. You know I've been behind the scenes for years and really enjoyed it. Was a prayer partner. Used to bring in my home as well as being on camera with Steve Toten back with Steve Toten days and just so blessed to watch CTV evolve Norma and Russ Bixler and go through a couple of changes. Never really thinking about being in front of the camera here, I've done it other places. So Arlene Williams, a lot of you remember her at home had mentioned to me that there was this show they were coming up with and she put my name and she wanted me to go and audition. And I'm like oh all right. So I forget how many auditions they had and of course I come to the very last audition you know. And I don't remember the questions or anything. I answered them and to be honest I was shocked that they called me back so. But I'm here, I've been here for a decade now y'all. Our church was always involved with corner show. Whatever capacity. Come pray on the prayer line. Music team do music during telethon time. You know whatever it takes just to get the gospel out just to be kingdom. And I was preaching one day at the church and one of the producers here was there and he said I think that you need to come audition for sister to sister. You'd be really great on TV. And I thought well of course I was born for this. She's a home one, she aspires to a home one. Honestly I mean to see the evolution of good work you evolve over a decade. It's almost, it's not like you're a totally different person but you have changed, I have changed and grown and more but I've done it with sisters. Amen. So it just makes life sweet. So I think it's awesome. Yes I know. Well when I was a little girl I actually promised my parents that someday I would be on TV. Yeah. Of course. And I studied broadcast communications when I was in college but then I never did anything with television until I was in my 30s. So I feel like it's a good testimony that sometimes you don't blossom until later in your life. Sometimes it's not right out of school that you do the thing that you studied and that God is faithful. And I didn't get my opportunity until later in life and that you just trust that the thing that God has planted in your heart that he will grow that in his time. Amen. And ladies over the years you have shared so much of your lives, so much of your hearts. After you shared were you ever concerned that maybe you over shared? So not me. I might have did that out of order. We probably had some trouble. Leave it to me to throw it out of order. But anyway. Cassie we want to hear from you. Yeah I'm sorry. Tell me are you ever shared? Because one of the things that I have a tendency to do is to ask like you're you know after you become a little more seasoned I'm not like calling myself old or anything like that but you know you come a little more seasoned and one of the things that I do is if I go to share something it involves somebody else I ask for their permission. And if they give me the release then I share and if they don't then I don't. The other thing is I think I'm pretty transparent so when it comes to my own personal stuff I don't have to ask for anybody's permission except for me unless the Holy Ghost says you need to not do that girl you know. I have definitely over shared. There's no question that I have over shared. However it's my sisters and when I'm in the show we really are looking at each other we're listening to each other so maybe something I was going to say it changes because of something that Roxie said or Corey or Amy. So I have over shared however that has created a culture of prayer for my sisters for me. Wow that's good. Yeah that's good. Amen. I have definitely over shared but you know my prayer in my personal life and my professional life has always been God use me in spite of me. I constantly feel a pool on this pretty much every program. That's why I need like an Advil after. I'm like what to share what not to share. You know there's so many navigating parts of marriage, children, ministry. You're dealing with situations, real life stuff. It's like so I constantly battle and it's such a place of vulnerability that we sit in. I mean we say something and it is out there. We can't go rip it and take it back and we have a responsibility. Honestly for what we say and what comes out of our mouth. So yeah there's a tension. Yeah but what happens with you what I love is that you're very real on this show Amy and you share things that I say. Ooh. Maybe. I think the importance to us and how we share it you know what I mean. So we are aware that there are people watching and they really want answers. Like they are okay what do I do with this? So I think honesty, transparency is what not only the people have tuned in for but I think it's what God is requiring of us. But using wisdom on how to do it is key. Maybe you're right. Maybe Flo rubbed off on me. Yes that's right. That's what happens. We rubbed off on each other and Flo when we begin, let's keep it real ladies. Let's be real. She's our truth person and Proverbs two says wisdom and truth will enter the very center of your being filling your life with joy. How do we get joy? Wisdom and truth that's what we are about. And I remember when we auditioned one of the ladies got up and said I want to debate the attorney pointing to me. I do belong here because we don't come to wisdom and truth on our own. It's by the guidance of the Holy Spirit. It's us interacting together. And I came from a place of religious culture, secular culture. I didn't fit quite in either culture. You know, do you stay home and bake bread or you go to fast food? Is your husband, are you a help me or are you a partner in marriage? You know, I was always on the edge somewhere else but this show let me express myself as a Christian woman, believing in the Lord but having the diversity of ideas. Hallelujah. She has overshare. All right, we'll have to say we all love oversharing. Isn't that right, audience? Yes. Thank you ladies for being so vulnerable and authentic through the years. So well, we are really just getting things started here. The sisters have so much more to share. We've got more questions to ask them but we gotta take a quick break. We'll be back right after this. Celebration, we wanna get right back to the questions and the sisters. So sisters, I wanna know, we wanna know what was your favorite moment from the show? Cory, we'll start with you. My favorite moments are always our Christmas shows. I love our Christmas shows. I think we have a picture from one of our Christmas shows. I remember in particular one show, I got to make one of my favorite family recipes and then I got to share it with my sisters. I don't know if you guys remember that but I just loved that. I made that. Did you? My mom made that too for us because everyone knows I don't cook very much. Okay, so I have favorite moments many, many, many and most of them involve Flo. I'm sorry, but they do. Well, one time how she broke out into song, that was praise and beginning, the audience was here and we, Flo broke out in song to get us all in the Holy Spirit but she has broken out in song many times and then Amy follows, Cory Roxy but there was another time that she put spinach in her too. And here's me to the camera. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I looked over and there's spinach in her tooth. It was great. And then the last one I have and I don't think they aired it was Flo was pole dancing. Oh! A couple of weeks ago with my daughter and these women walked up and said, and we watched you, we watched you. I'm like, I realized like we're sitting here today. She was 13 when I started this because she's 23 now. And the changes, hardships, struggles and to have that, it's like we really have done life together and we've done it with a whole lot of other people with us. And so that is one of my favorite moments. And Amy, if I could just add the people have seen you and when we said about being transparent, you are so real. You have talked about Gloria Gabe and Judah. So the people in the audience, they know Gloria's struggles because you have overshared. All right, I'm gonna overshare too. Warning right now. You know, the scripture of Matthew 20 says Jesus came to minister, not to be ministered too. But how many of you know, when we come to this set we're not always joyful. Well, Amy is always joyful. We're not always joyful. We had struggles. We didn't sleep through the night. We worked hard during the day. We come bringing ourselves as we are, but to the glory of God we minister to him. So there was a show, I think it was lies, truths and being weary. I shared about my daughter going to Armenia 6,000 miles away, I was under such heavy anxiety. I think one of our producers, Dave said, are you okay? No, I'm not okay. But I knew that somebody else was going through something. Annie was 6,000 miles away with birthright Armenia volunteering. And I shared my heart about being weary, about anxiety. And you know, at the end of that show, I was set free because I was willing to share my own anxiety. So don't be afraid in your turmoil, in your anxiety, in your joy, in the despair of your heart, truth can rise and it does here. Thank you for that word, Roxy. And all the time that you ladies have spent together, what have you learned about yourselves and each other? Go, Cora. Oh my gosh, so much. We've learned about each other. I think one thing, I think looking from the outside, I think a lot of people would put us in the same box. I think people would say, oh, they're five Christian women and they would just say, they have the same beliefs. They have the same life experiences. And I think this show proves that we have very different life experiences. We see things from different perspectives. And the beauty of this show is that in the end, we love each other. We see things from different perspectives, but we have one thing in common and that is we share the same father. That's right. Cory likes Tiffany Blue. Roxanne's husband cooks. Amy is a cheerleader and Flo gives us wisdom and she's sharp-witted like you can't believe. And for me, I have learned to not be afraid to open my heart to the people that are watching. There you go. Well, I almost crave sitting at tables with people that don't see eye to eye with me. Yes. Where before I might have just surrounded myself with people that talk like me, think like me. We're all, you know, so there's no tension at all. I'm like, bring on the tension. Where's the good conversation? That's what that, it has developed a muscle in me. Yes. I like it. For challenging rich conversations. That's great. So I think I kind of came in with that muscle. Yes. Yes, you did. So, you know, I don't know, for me, obviously, the word of God says that every joint supplies and from my sisters, I have definitely gotten a supply of wisdom, insight, growth, maturity, love, nurturing, all of those good things. For myself personally, I still sometimes I'm on the edge. I'm like, oh my God, we only got a sound bike for this answer. I only got to answer this real quick. Me, while I'm wanting to get into the meat and potatoes, ask me hard questions, ask me the sex questions, ask me the things that nobody really wants to talk about. You know, I would love to have a live show with people just shooting questions at us with rapid fire, like, you know. And because this is the effectiveness of television, telling the vision, and reaching through, seizing the airways, and bringing truth because, really, the whole thing of media is just another platform. It's a pull pit to help pull people out of the pit. Amen. Well, how she says, she just said she has sound bites. So, one day, one day, here we are in, no, you can't see behind you. There's people holding up like five minutes, three minutes, okay. So, she's talking away and I'm watching, and I go like this. Like, settle, stop it, right? And she went like this. What? All right, while speaking of the time crunch, we do just have time for one more question. And Amy, you're the only one that gets to answer this. What do you think is the secret sauce that has kept this show going for 10 years? Two things. Number one, I think without the producers and the vision and the heart of this ministry, we don't sit here today without her hard work of the development of all of the questions and gathering, we don't exist here. And another thing is, I think, to the core, we are kingdom women. So, we might have different viewpoints on different economy or government or education or one of my favorites over the years was, you know, should men and women ride in a car by themselves? I mean, those kind of things. I mean, I remember that moment like, I can't believe they don't think like me on this question, but I think what has made it all work is that to our core, we love God and we love people and we love each other and we build his church, each of us in our own capacities, in our own different ways. And that's what makes sister to sister work. Well said. Well said. Thank you, Amy. All right, well, time is going fast, but there is more fun to be had. I'm actually gonna be ducking out and let the sisters wrap up the rest of the show. So, I will see you next time and we're gonna take a break. Stay with us, we'll be right back. Oh my gosh, what an amazing time. 10 years, the secrets, the memories, but here's one thing that stays consistent, our love of the word of God. And we have a special scripture that goes like this, as iron sharpens iron, so does the countenance of a man or a woman or a sister sharpen the other because you see, and it's so true, these sisters make me a much better Catholic. You know, when I read that scripture, I also love to read different translations of that scripture and in the Amplified it says, one man or woman sharpens and influences another through discussion. And that's exactly what we're doing here on sister to sister. You know, it doesn't say aluminum sharpens, you know, gold, it says iron sharpens iron. That's right. So, there's something about being like that, that strong woman of God that knows what you believe and what you don't believe, what you're buying into and what you're not, and you're just sharpening each other through discussion. So, I'm so grateful. Amen, amen to that. And also, iron can't just pick up itself and sharpen itself. They're just tools in the hand of our Lord and Master who skillfully picks us up gently. It's not hurting one another. We're not, we're not here to hurt, to condemn, to cause people to feel worse about themselves. We're here to point them to the Lord. And my favorite scripture, you know, one of them Proverbs 27, deceitful are the kisses of an enemy, but what? The womb, faithful are the wounds of a friend. A true friend may wound you, but make you better speaking truth in love. Amen, amen. I am so grateful for my sisters. I feel like when I started here, I was like a butter knife. And now, I'm a samurai sword. Oh, yeah, yeah. So that's what I'm gonna say. Now you're a samurai sword. Okay, but you're awfully pretty and glitzy. I know. You're a pretty samurai sword. She's kind of our Marilyn Monroe-ish sister, which we love. I mean, when we decided to be fancy today, okay, this is all I came up with, be honest, but look at my sister. She's it all. What do you have for us, wisdom of play? You know, I think everybody said it really well and I don't wanna be redundant with it, but you know, I'm a person that likes symbols. And thanks to you who watch the show, thanks to you who support our station, we have been able through conversation through the operating in iron, sharpening iron. We've been able to do things like you have been our life preserver and you have helped us to reach out to people who are sinking in different areas of life. And you've also sharpened us, and we sharpen one another to be fishers of men. And then we've learned throughout the seasons that there are times when things are a little sour to us. And so, but through the grace and the mercy of God and his enabling power with a couple of Holy Ghosts Mints, he can balance it out and make those things palatable to us as believer. So I have one for each of you when we're done. I'll take your candy. And you know, another thing that has been really consistent throughout the 10 years of sister to sister is someone in the audience. We are so thrilled and we have a little gift for Roxanne's mother, Anna, has been here. She sits there and watches us even when we bore ourselves. She's sitting there smiling, good job. Roxie, what has it meant? What has it meant to have your mother with us every show? From the time I was born, my mom's been with me. You know, when she's taught me that a wise woman builds her house, doesn't destroy it. And I think that she built her family, her house, as an example, and she's been here more times than I've been. Okay, bless you all, sister to sister says, thank you.