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Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents
One Visit Changed My Life And Brought Me Back To Church
A name sits on your heart. Do you keep scrolling—or do you show up? We share a personal story about leaving church for months, feeling judged from a distance, and then hearing a gentle knock that changed everything. One woman looked past appearances, called us beautiful, and said the words that made the way back feel possible: come sit with me, I’ll hold your hand. That moment became a blueprint for care that any of us can follow.
Across this conversation, we unpack the gap between intention and action. “I thought of you” is kind, but it doesn’t bridge distance the way a visit, a call, or a handwritten note does. We talk about soft entry points that make return less scary—midweek study, smaller gatherings, a saved seat—so people don’t feel they must be perfect to belong. Along the way, we honor leaders who pursue people with patience and persistence, modeling love that walks, writes, and remembers. This is a guide for faith communities, families, and friends who want to turn compassion into practice and replace silence with presence.
If you’ve noticed someone missing from your pew, your group chat, or your daily life, this is your cue. Make a short list, send one message, plan one visit, and hold space without judgment. Your small act might be the hand someone needs to cross a difficult room. If the story moves you, share it with a friend, subscribe for more conversations like this, and leave a review to help others find the show. Then take the next step: who will you check on today?
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Hey there. I'm Regina Soren. This is another bonus episode of Regina Soren audio series presents. This episode I want to just speak very, very briefly because I have a panel of guests that's coming on um later in this um season to talk about this, how you should visit those that you haven't talked to in a long time. Um if you haven't seen someone at church or not just at church, but if you haven't talked to somebody in a very, very long time, um it's important to check on a person. And so often, even if a person goes to your church and they've missed a couple Sundays and you haven't seen them there, I want to do a show about how important it is to check upon a person. Because something happened in my younger years when we first joined the church, Mother A. B. Jackson's church, years and years ago. Um my sister Laura, the two of us, we at one point we left the church and we were gone for some months. And it took just this one woman, her name was Denise Morrigan. I will never ever forget her. It took her dropping by our house, visiting us, where other people were judging the way we were looking. She said, You're pretty, you look good. You know, we don't have lipstick, and you know, you can imagine all the hair hanging the little skirts and the little shorts. She didn't, she looked past that. She said, You're beautiful. Why don't you come on back to church? Uh she said, I'll hold your hand. Well, I want to talk about that lady, that woman, that amazing person that got me back to in the church because it was nothing that happened at the church. The pastor, Mother A. B. Tax, is a great leader, always, always a great leader. But we had strayed, and sometimes you see other members, and we saw other members at the time that we had on our little short shirt shirts and things, and people were making fun, you know. And so it just took that one woman to come and say, Hey, Jesus still loves you, He loves you. And each time she said she was inviting me back to church. Inviting me back, saying, Come on back, you know, God loves you, He loves you, come on back. And eventually one day I did. I went to uh, I think it was Bible study or something. I didn't want to go on a night where there's a lot of people, so I went Bible study, and she sat right next to me. She had all my hands because I was so nervous. But the pastor, Prophet Mother A. B. Jackson, was so glad to see me walk through those doors. She was a when I say she was a leader over leaders, she was a great greatest leader I've ever known. And sometimes when you're out, it just takes that one person to come through and just encourage you. And a lot of times people are not haven't been to church in a couple of weeks or you haven't seen them in a while. And people, and just hurt my heart so bad when people say, I thought of you today, right in my city now. Come through my city, come through my town and say, I thought about you today, I'm praying for you or whatever. Never reaching out though. If the Lord laid a person on your heart, there is a reason for that. If he laid that person strongly on your heart, and I learned this through Prophetess Mother A. B. Jackson, because when that woman, when God laid somebody on her heart, she would call if she couldn't call them, she would ask around how could I reach them? She would write them, she would get in touch with that person because that person was on her heart. And that's the kind of love that we need. Not to just think about our houses, our safe houses. We're fine. My friends, they're fine. You got those out there who have strayed a little bit, and maybe all they're looking for is someone that cares. And if you haven't seen again someone, because this happened a lot of times. I have a lot of places that didn't leave, I just wasn't in church. And people would say, Oh, I I thought of you today. I was in your town, I thought of you today. And I'm thinking to myself, Wow, you're in a town, you could have stopped by, you could have called and said, Yeah, I'm in town. I would have said, Come on bye. Come on, pray with me. So that's the type of show that I'm getting ready to do. I think it fits perfectly in this month of uh depression, breast cancer. I mean, is about checking on people because we don't know how they're doing out there. We don't know. So it's good to check on a person, it's good to call them. I tell family members, friends, call your friends, call them, see how they're doing. I try to call people, I try to call and check up on, call them and see how they're doing because you don't know how they're doing. It's not always about me, me, me, you, you, you, maybe me, me, me, and you, you, you need to call around and see how people are doing sometimes. Because we don't know how people are really doing inside with the depression thing. We don't know that. We don't know. So if God lays somebody on your heart, then by all means do it whatever you can to reach that person, to call that person. It's good to call their name out in prayer, it's good. I know we gotta be led by God, but if God is putting somebody on your heart, there's a reason for that. And and I guess that's why I miss Mother Jackson so much, because there are so many times I'm like, God, you know what's going on. I'm a I'm a private person, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna post my business and stuff on Facebook, I'm not gonna do that. And it can be inwardly things that's going on, and you're trying to deal with them and bang, bang, bang, so much. But when people care, that means a lot.