Today we welcome to the mic Dave Barringer, Lead Pastor of Kalamazoo First AG, and author of an amazing book, Speaking from the Shadows. In this episode Dave unpacks his journey with depression. It is such a powerful story of pain and healing that you will want to share this podcast with your friends and family.

• Dave’s conversion story.
• Dave’s battle with depression
  • Started with loss at an early age.
  • Had no language to describe to my parents what was happening to me.
  • Pre-pandemic rate of depression in the United States was 11%.
  • At the height of the pandemic the rate was 42%.
  • Currently the rate of depression in the U.S. is 33%
• Depression colors everything gray.
• Recovery from depression is not possible in a relational vacuum.