What does it look like when you choose to live your faithโnot just on Sunday, but every single day, with the people God has placed right in front of you? 🏡❤️
In this powerful episode of the You Are Worthy Network Podcast, I had the incredible privilege of sitting down with the amazing Twyla Franzโa woman who deeply loves Jesus, her family, and her community. ❤️🙏👨👩👧👦
Twyla and her husband are living out missional community right in their own neighborhood. 🏡🍽️ They open their home, share meals, have deep conversations, talk about Christ, build meaningful relationships, and simply do life with the people around them.
And that is the heart of Twyla’s message: your faith can have a ripple effect when you are willing to live it out right where you are. 🌊✝️
We talk about her passion for missions 🌎 and the mission trips she took to Scotland, Thailand, and New Zealand when she was younger. She still carries a dream of taking a mission trip to India and continues to pray about what God may have in store. 🇮🇳🙏
Twyla also opens up about something incredibly personalโhow she didn’t feel worthy to plan the very first Daughter’s First Retreat in 2025 at Glen Eyrie Castle in Colorado Springs. 🏰❤️
But she took the step anyway.
And God has blessed those retreats in ways she could never have imagined. 🙌✨ They’re now preparing for their third retreat!
Her story is a beautiful reminder that God doesn’t always ask us to have confidence before we move. Sometimes He simply asks us to take the next baby step. 👣
Twyla is a marathon finisher 🏃♀️, blueberry tea drinker 🫖, sourdough bread baker 🍞, chalk painter 🎨, minimalist wanna-be 😄, mom of three 👨👩👧👦, and wife to her first and forever. ❤️
She is also a relentless believer in baby steps, often saying:
โThe direction is more important than the pace.โ 👣
In our conversation, we talk about:
🙏 Loving Jesus in the everyday moments
❤️ Loving God, family, and community
🏡 Living out missional community in your own neighborhood
🍽️ The power of shared meals and meaningful conversations
✝️ Having conversations about Christ with the people around us
🌎 Seeing the Great Commission as an everyday, everywhere mission
👣 Taking baby steps instead of waiting until you’re ready
🏃♀️ What running a marathon can teach us about life
🇮🇳 Her dream of serving in India
🏰 The story behind Daughter’s First Retreat
💭 What happens when you don’t feel worthyโbut take the step anyway
🌊 How one person’s faith can create a ripple effect
Twyla’s writing centers on helping people get close to Jesus and grow deep, missional friendships with their neighbors so their faith has a ripple effect. 🌊❤️
Her words have appeared in in(courage), Her View From Home, Relevant, The Grit and Grace Project, Just Between Us, and Truly Co. She is also currently writing two books for Revell, coming in 2027 and 2028. 📚✨
This conversation is about much more than faith.
It’s about opening your home. Opening your heart. Taking the next step. Loving the people around you. And trusting God to use your ordinary life to create an extraordinary ripple. 🌊🙏❤️
🎙️ Don’t miss this beautiful conversation with Twyla Franz on the You Are Worthy Network Podcast!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ripple-effect-faith-with-twyla-franz/id1498635315
https://twylafranz.com/category/gratitude-series/
