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February 3, 2025 15 mins

Summary
In this powerful conversation, Evangelist Atara Tatu Estes shares her personal journey of transformation through faith, overcoming adversity, and the importance of letting go to embrace new beginnings. She emphasizes the need for community support, advocacy, and collective action to address social and economic inequalities, encouraging listeners to step boldly into their new season of life.




Takeaways
  • It's okay for a pastor to have struggles.
  • God can transform pain into purpose.
  • Surviving trauma requires faith and resilience.
  • Joy comes after enduring hardships.
  • Letting go is essential for new beginnings.
  • Support from community is crucial for healing.
  • Advocacy is a vital part of empowerment.
  • Engaging in dialogue can bridge divides.
  • Collective action is necessary for social justice.
  • Embrace the new season God has for you.





Chapters00:00Introduction and Personal Journey
02:57Transformation Through Faith
06:03Overcoming Adversity
08:53Letting Go for New Beginnings
12:11Call to Action and Advocacy
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Episode Transcript

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh, that's coming up. I'm gonna tell you yall something.
It's okay for a pastor to have a bull day,
all right, all right, I just wanting to get that
out of the wady.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
This is most definitely uh, a young lady that I
know is very annointed who has been through As a
matter of fact, we are getting ready to feel a
movie on her life here at the church across the
street and throughout the community.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Of Saints, and will tell you all more about that.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
So, without further ado, I like to introduce this evangelist
at Tara est Amen.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Beautiful.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Literally what a teacher is not?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
The word today was given to us about new beginnings
and God gave me to talk about it's a new
season and.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I want to say good morning to everyone.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
I want to be.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Honor to God, who is the hand of my life,
but his grace and strength and his mercy.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
And the purpose that He has given me today and
without him I would not be here. Honestly, I believe.
I want to acknowledge the leaders.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Here in church executive as Australian absence, Senior Pastor Reggie Chandler,
who has been a great guidance and encourager and always
praying for me. I want to be able to let
you know it's it's not by chance that I happen

(01:54):
to be here today because of what happened to me.
God took my pain and turned it to my Before
I go there, I want.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
To thank all of you for being here to God
is about to really elevate us too. I want to
thank my daughter, my youngest daughter, who missed.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Her own true service, the sacrifice that I want to
support her mother and anyone else who has come to
support my Thank you for my mother, the sacrifices that
I've made in life. Then my mother.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Only God knows, but let me.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Struggle with this.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
I only got somebody so much time old. But those
of you who don't know me, my name is a Tara.
Tattoo asked this.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
My family called the tattoo and I'm a mother to
two names and daughters. I'm a tronta survivor of domestic
viocost in my personal life.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Like I said, my mother, a woman of faith and
some one who has turned her pain into professionally, let's
talk about this.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
I served as a community help work, the leader, a.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Visionary strategist that struct their mentor brands, approach of one
of directors, member of Nashville which is the National Association
of Health Workers, and Saint Willis HW's coalition.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
And many other things on the front of it.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I'm a proud found of that I don't my pin,
I was able to burn out. Talk to your w being,
which means thriving after trauma on the shame. My area
of expertise is behavior health to bive and.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Trauma recovery, with the focus to inform survivorship for those
impacted by interpersonal domestic union levels it gets better and
structural violence. I serve on the many boards trying to

(03:56):
give my income my expertise, and as I serve on
these different advisories and live programs to address domestic violence
and any violence that these women re entry and policy
and community.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Of human rights committees along.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
My life's mission is to empower others through compassion, advocacy
and the love of the price and to create spaces
where healing and equity can flourish. A lot of you
just now getting to know me, so you see just
the glory for if they don't understanding my school today,

(04:35):
as you see the glory, let me.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Tell you a little bit about the school. I've been
to do so much.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
In my personal life to get where I am today,
and by the race of God, I was able to
raise two days as a single parent with child. Our
pursue childs a word when it became too much public
reallyicure and there.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Was meant shame.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Just the list goes on that I was being tortured
emotionally by the fathers who did not want to support
your own children.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
God gave me wisdom, knowledge and understanding. At first I did, like.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Most, I pursue what like I said there wisdom, knowledge
of understanding was prices. I need the keys, being a
survivor of being blind, bullet shot and left for dead.
But the bullet is still in my chest. Cavity I

(05:40):
got emotionally. I survived physically, but emotionally I was mad
then for a very long time dealing with that shame
and a ridicule. The God gave me He's told me

(06:00):
to let her, and he moved.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Forward and go where activity.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
As to walk.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
By faith and not by Sithence.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
I lived off for two hundred and thirty four thousands
a month, making two chus for the minister, and sexually
Antanna mina you for a period of time, God has
taken me.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Through to allow me to step out.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Come on.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Thank God was teaching me to be faithful over the
little long so he could bless me with more than another.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'm going to.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Look six un ten. God, I had moments when I
had suffered and do that. He triggered up impression.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Thank God excited astraumatic stress, my emotions.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Like I said, the pain I feel today, that's God,
Thank you. I need to share what hurts me today,
how to heal and be a hero? Come on's not
working in pain and freaking. Other people destroyed it. That's

(07:22):
what I an't even wanted to destroy me.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Glory to God.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Now I stand here when I proove that we can
may endure it fortnight, but my joy came.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Come on studying now, this is how we're gonna endure
a building character and compassion.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
I want to show you all.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
How I had to do.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
I can't tell it all, but I'm gonna tell when
I can't. It's not easy going through the stores of life,
I promise you, because you don't know. Glory to God
for what's the probably.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
You waiting to push you off your war but it's
necessary God God uses those storm to build character and compassion.
Romans five three and four tells us not only so,
but we also glory in our sufferers because we know
that suffering process character.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
And character home. Sometimes we think the battle is external only,
but the truth is we are often our own words.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Come on, come on.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
We allow fear now and old habits to get in
our way from our purpose because we're holding own.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Too much of what happens.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
But when God is doing a new thing in your life,
the transformation starts from the inside out of according to
twelve Roma's twelve and two, don't fight the process just
in praces.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Now, I want you to tell your neighbor to the
left of you, it's a new season.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Are you all.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
To your next thing?

Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's a new season?

Speaker 3 (09:04):
What are you all?

Speaker 2 (09:07):
So biblical examples, I want to share endurance of your transformation.
There is one is coming from Joe's faith in the
Trial one forty two reading on your own.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Joe lost everything, his.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Family, his health is wealth, Yet he endured because he
trusted Guy's plan. In the end, God restored Joe's.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Sports given or twice.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, that's going to Joseph German in Genesis thirty seven
through fifty Joseph. Joseph endured betrayal, slavery, and imprisonment, he
stayed faithful, and in God's perfect timing, he was elevated
to a position of power to see if his battle
and the yes'sus appearance.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
In Second Karlins.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Twelve or nine, Paul faced countless trials, but declare, my
race is sufficient for you. But My power has made
perfect and weakness, and Paul kept his faith and faith
focused on God's mission.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Hallylujah.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Let him go to receive new beginnings. To walk into
your new season, you have to let go of what's
holding you back.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Rather than his fear, a healthy relationship, or a mindset
of scarcity.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
You must release it. It's your choice right now now.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Jesus said, no one who puts a hand to the
plow and looks back, it's fit for service and people
of God wanting to look six Looke nine sixty two
and sometimes letting.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Go like lost.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
You may feel like you're a loss, but actually is
preparation for what God has in story for you. God
forget the former things, do not dwell on the past.
See how I am doing a little bit according to
Isaiah Hording for eighteen or nineteen.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Now I want to call to action.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Are you in?

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Are you all in?

Speaker 3 (11:03):
I have a charge of keeping the God to glorify
while I'm here. The storms I endure prepared me for
this moment. God is calling each and every one of
us to step in our purpose. But the question is
are you all in?

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Are you ready to um.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Do the trials necessary for transformation? Are you ready to
let go of what's holding you back? Are you willing
to walk by faith? Trust in God's voice even when
it's uncomfortable. Practical steps to being all in one so
ready to God's will, Trust that he knows what's best
for you. Trust in the Lord with all your heart

(11:39):
and leaning them to your own understanding.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Proverbs three and five. Prepare yourself spiritually.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Number two.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Spend time to prepare by prayer and scripture. Yes, God,
let God's word guide you. Three.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Surround yourself with support, real support, not any support. Build
a community of faithful people who will encourage you. Now
afford take action. Don't just hear the word, live it.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Come on, take.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Steps towards the personal and professional those trust in God
to lead the way and then clumbling.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
The race isn't given to the twitter on to the string,
but to the one who endorys Today. God has a
planning for your life.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
But you must be willing to any more, to let
go and to step forward in the faith. Isaiah forty
three nineteen reminds.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Us I am doing another thing now. It's springs forth.
Do you not perceive all.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
You back?

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Let God transform you from the inside out and prepare
you for His purpose. Now, today is a new day.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
The choice is yours. The question is are you all
in now? I'm gonna do a real quick blood on advocacy.
We know who's in office. I would be going to
the Capitol Hill for Advocacy Day in March. I do
it every year supporting the community health work because I'm
gonna direct them member of NASHWA and I support the

(13:13):
HWS in this workforce and helping the communities that we
serve that we are. That's right. I'm wanna leave this
with you. Please take time to kind of look at
the extrach from doctor Marlin CoA King Junior speech.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
The Other America, delivered at Stanford University on April fourteen,
nineteen sixty seven. That's just some history, real quick for
I live.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
And his powerful speech, Doctor King exposed the stark reality
to America, one of prosperity and opportunity and another play
by poverty, systemic racism, and the lack of basic necessity.
He emphasized the urgent need to address and economic inequalities
alongside racial justice, to achieve rap, to achieve truth equality. Now,

(14:02):
this message does remain from rrelevant today. How can we
work together to be ad more just, equitable society for all?
Support organizations combat in poverty and systemic racism, Advocate for policies.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
That promote economic justice and equal opportunity.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Engage in peaceful and constructive dialogue with those who hold.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Different views, and volunteer our time.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
To support community initiatives that address social and economic inequality. Now,
let's commit to collective action and strive towards a nation
where liberty and justice truly prevail for all.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Now, I thank you, but I'm asking you. Are you
all in May God bless you and may keep you?
And when you vote body into yo season? Hey, hey,

(15:03):
come on, we'll answer this attire?

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Amen?

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Amen?

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Oh oh so informable?

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Amen?

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Amen? Amen, most definitely, most definitely thank you.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
So much, so so thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Amen. Amen, So what we're gonna do real quick, We're
going to
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