In this deeply personal season finale, host Hanna Eyobed sits down with the most important guest she could imagine — her mother, Asmeret Yosef Adhanom. An immigrant from Eritrea and a woman of extraordinary faith, Asmeret shares her journey from growing up in a Protestant family in a country divided between Orthodox Christianity and Islam, to surrendering her life to Jesus as a young woman, building underground churches in Bahrain, and faithfully raising three daughters who now walk with God themselves.

This is a conversation about generational faith, answered prayer, radical hospitality, and what it looks like to live an unfiltered, real life with Jesus — through the triumphs and the darkest valleys.

GUEST

Asmeret Yosef Adhanom — Hanna's mother is a lifelong woman of faith. Originally from Eritrea, Asmeret has lived and served God across multiple countries, building Christian communities in Muslim-majority nations, modeling radical hospitality, and praying for her family with relentless faithfulness for decades.

WHAT WE COVER

• The inheritance of faith — How Hanna's grandmother (Hadit) planted seeds of faith that carried through generations, and the Hebrews 11:13 picture of those who live and die as "foreigners and strangers on earth."
• Asmer's conversion story — A young woman in her late teens, taken to a Full Gospel church in Ethiopia by her uncle, feels the Holy Spirit move for the first time and walks to the front — twice
• Faith in Bahrain — Moving to a Muslim-majority country at 19, praying specifically for God to send a Christian woman to guide her, and receiving an answered prayer after three months in the form of Lanil Wing Phil, a woman who rented a house she didn't even like — just to be near Asmer
• Building underground churches — How a small group of believers gathered quietly in Bahrain at a time when Christianity was barely visible, and how that church grew
• What keeps you in faith? — Asmer's powerful answer: "Once you test Him, there's no way out."
• The lesson of persistent prayer — Asmer's mother prayed for Asmer's father for 30 years before he came to Jesus, and what that taught Asmer about never giving up
• Surviving painful seasons — Deportation, jail, prison, and hardship after coming to faith, and how God was present through every valley
• Passing faith to the next generation — Praying over Hannah before she was born, asking God to name her, and dedicating her to God's glory from the womb
• Radical hospitality as worship — How loving people regardless of race, religion, or background is a direct expression of loving Jesus
• Advice for young believers — Stay in community, stay in the Word, ask God hard questions, and don't mistake dry seasons for abandonment
• Philippians 1:6 — "He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion."
• Psalm 116:15–16 — Closing reflection on faithful servants and the legacy of a mother's faith
• A closing prayer — Asmeret prays over listeners, the campus, and the young generation

SCRIPTURES REFERENCED

• Hebrews 11:13 — "All these were still living by faith when they died…"
• John 1:4 — "In him was life and the life was the light of men."
• Philippians 1:6 — "He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion."
• Psalm 116:15–16 — "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful

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Produced by Daniel Johnson, Dave Conour, and Brian Beatty

Edited by Dave Conour