interview
Interview with
Melanie Diggs and Cheri Saunders
Visionaries and Pioneers of Spiritual Care for a Woman’s Soul:
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elcome to Transformational4Real Magazine. It is my pleasure to be able to interview both of you simultaneously; I feel like I am getting two for the price of one! Lol! Correct me if I’m wrong, but you are both the pioneers for Spiritual Care for a Woman’s Soul, right? Did both of you come up with the name for the Facebook group? MD: I came up with the name of the FB Group. The thought behind the name is that we are on a spiritual journey with Christ as our Leader and the care of our soul matters. The soul is the seat of our emotions and it is our very essence—and for women—we have a ton of emotions to turn over to Jesus. The soul is the part of us that lives on into eternity. We must make sure our soul is in love with Jesus and allow the Holy Spirit to guide us through this spiritual journey—from earth to Glory. CS: Yes, Melanie came up with the name and idea to do a Facebook Page to encourage women, as well as ourselves as we journey through our walk with Christ. I agreed it would be an awesome thing to do. It has been a wonderful journey to walk out our spiritual life with so many women. I noticed that you are averaging over 1,000 women in SCFAWC. Tell us a little about your group and how it works? MD: The group was birthed on September 7, 2015 after Cheri and I discussed creating a private FB Group that would allow us to connect with women in our hometown Baltimore, MD, as well as with women all over the world. Women are invited to join by other members or request to join when they find our group. Members are welcomed into the group and are requested to submit posts that encourage and uplift a Sister’s soul. We consider our members as “Sisters”. Cheri and I believed that the Lord gave us a mandate for prayer so, we began a hosting conference calls every Monday @ 11:00 a.m. EST so that we could connect with women who became members of the group in a weekly hour of prayer. Cheri and I are prayer partners and we have experienced the power of prayer, as God answered many of our prayer requests and the requests of others as we have prayed for. PrePandemic times, we also held face-to-face bible studies and book discussions for women that enabled intergenerational
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