Preach Where You Reach®
Preach Where You Reach is a podcast for everyday professionals navigating purpose, leadership, burnout, and integrity in the real world of work. Each episode features honest conversations with people living out their Christian faith where it matters most, not on a stage, but in meetings, decisions, and relationships.
Preach Where You Reach®
E141: Zahara McCoy
Zahara McCoy - CEO of Children of Grace - shares her inspirational journey and the impact her company has including growing up in rural Uganda; joining her mother in her Christian faith; the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Uganda; losing her father to AIDS and the diagnosis of her mother; how faith was all that was left; giving her life to Jesus at 8 years old; being taken out of school when her mother died; living with her aunt who tried to marry her off at 10/11 years old; the desperate walk to the next village to sign up for the possibility of orphan tuition assistance; the moment the news of assistance came; the celebration of her sponsors arrival to Uganda; how her sponsor chose to become a sponsor; the culture shock of her move to the U.S.; cold showers; the guilt of being pulled from hardship; not being rescued from, but being rescued for; the impact of a little girl named Mercy; perspective of fairness; the work that Children of Grace does; and so much more!
