Help for Hurting Parents

Help for Hurting Parents

Do you have a prodigal child or loved one that has turned away from the Lord? Is this a trial in your life that causes more pain than you feel you can bear? Discover how you can reach your prodigal and what God has for you in the valley of waiting.

Running Time: 54 minutes

Transcript

Laura Perry Smalts: I’m so happy to see everybody here, and yet you’re probably—most of you, at least—are here because you are hurting. I’m sorry for the pain that each and every one of you are going through.

I work for a ministry called First Stone Ministries that really helps the sexually and relationally broken. I don’t know if everyone knows my story, but I’m a former transgender—and have been that way for about nine years. So you might be wondering why I’m teaching on parenthood.

For some reason God has seen fit, especially which is funny for a girl who was so angry at my parents I didn’t ever want a relationship with them again! I remember thinking, I don’t know why anybody cares about their parents! I mean, I was just full of so much anger.

And again, God has given me a heart for parents. About ninety …

About the Speaker

Laura Perry Smalts

Laura Perry Smalts

Laura Perry Smalts is an author and speaker who shares her story of how Jesus Christ rescued her from a transgender identity. She also speaks and teaches on a variety of topics related to transgenderism and God’s design of human beings as male and female. She has had the privilege to tell her story on a variety of platforms including radio, video, TV, and more including the documentary In His Image and to teach at conferences, schools, and churches. Her story is available in her autobiography, Transgender to Transformed. She and her husband, Perry, now run a ministry called Eden’s Redemption which aims to teach and equip people to understand gender and sexuality from a biblical perspective.