The beauty of a good community cannot be overstated. A good community takes one's breathe away and tugs at the heart strings because it pulls at the eternal longing in every human heart for a place to belong, to be known, to be seen and therefore be loved.

Alana has found herself in a community that champions and celebrates her when things are going well as well as tenderly hold her and help her live with jagged pieces of grief. And all the while praying for her and family to grow in faith, love, peace.

Listen as Alana talks about a part of her story of how a girl from a small town north of Auckland ending up leading a church in another paradise city of Queenstown. Grab a box of tissues because the storms this woman has weathered will make you weep. And yet she still stays kind, trusting and hopeful that is a testimony of God's goodness.