The Reality of Being a Female Worship Pastor

The MxU Podcast by MxU

Oct 5, 202637:51Technology

We’re at Faith Promise with worship pastor Jess Elston, and this one gets personal. Jess talks about growing up as a Black woman in the South feeling like she had to be twice as good, and how a church that believed in he...

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