“Lord… what about him?”That’s essentially the question Peter asks Jesus in John 21.Jesus had just restored Peter, spoken to him about his own future, and told him, “Follow Me.”But Peter turns around, sees John, and asks about his story.Jesus responds:“If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.” — John 21:22How many times do we do the same thing?Why is their ministry growing faster?Why did they get married before me?Why are they making more money?Why did their prayer get answered?Why does their life seem further along than mine?Sometimes nothing has actually changed about our lives—we simply started looking at somebody else’s.In this solo episode of Church After Dark, we're having a real conversation about comparison, jealousy, envy, gratitude, calling, and what can happen when we become more focused on someone else's assignment than the one God placed in our own hands.We can look at Peter and John, Saul and David, and other biblical examples as we confront a question that still speaks loudly today:“What is that to you?”This isn't a call to stop caring about other people. It's a call to stop measuring your obedience against somebody else's journey.Their assignment is theirs. Yours is yours.And Jesus' instruction to Peter brings us right back to what matters:“You follow Me.”🎙️ Church After Dark with MayelynWe Keep It Real So We Can Heal.™#ChurchAfterDark #ChurchAfterDarkwithMayelyn #Comparison #John21 #ChristianPodcast #Faith #FollowJesus

Some battles aren’t visible. They happen in the mind—and sometimes the people we love are fighting battles we cannot see. ❤️‍🩹In Part 2 of Ashley’s testimony, we move deeper into the conversation about mental health, faith, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, trauma, and what it means to walk alongside someone you love through a mental health crisis.Ashley opens up about her divorce and a relationship she came to recognize as being rooted in unresolved trauma. When that marriage ended and she found herself with nowhere to go, her twin sister and brother-in-law opened their home to her.What Ashley couldn’t see at the time was how her own experiences with fear, anxiety, trauma, and healing would later give her a unique understanding of the battle someone she loves is now facing.And this conversation isn't only about something that happened in the past. Her family is walking through a mental health crisis in real time.We talk candidly about depression, suicidal thoughts, supporting someone who is struggling, seeking professional help, and holding onto faith when prayer doesn’t immediately change the circumstances around us.Mental health struggles should not be met with shame, condemnation, or silence. Sometimes faith looks like praying. Sometimes it looks like showing up. Sometimes it looks like asking for help. And sometimes it means allowing trained professionals to help carry us through a season we cannot navigate alone.There is no shame in the battle—and there is still hope in the middle of it. 🙏🏽🎙️ Church After Dark | Episode 13 — Part 2WHEN THE BATTLE IS IN YOUR MIND: Faith & Mental Health⚠️ CONTENT NOTE: This episode contains discussions of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, trauma, and other sensitive mental health experiences. Please watch with care.If you or someone you know is in emotional distress or experiencing a suicidal crisis in the U.S., call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.We Keep It Real So We Can Heal.™#ChurchAfterDark #ChurchAfterDarkwithMayelyn #MentalHealth #FaithAndMentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #Testimony #Healing #Faith #Jesus

Childhood trauma doesn’t always end when childhood does. Its impact can follow us into adulthood, shaping our identity, relationships, emotions—and sometimes the generations that follow. ❤️‍🩹In Part 1, Ashley opens up about a traumatic childhood marked by sexual abuse, rejection, anger, identity struggles, anxiety, fear, and the painful feeling of being unseen.Growing up Black and Puerto Rican, Ashley shares what it was like to feel as though she wasn’t “Black enough” for one community or “Puerto Rican enough” for another. She also takes us into some of the deeper wounds of her childhood and how those experiences continued to affect her for years.But Ashley’s testimony is about more than what happened to her. It’s about what God began doing in her.From a little girl carrying pain, fear, anger, and questions about her worth to a woman who says God brought healing, restoration, and freedom, Ashley’s story reminds us that what happened in childhood does not have to become our identity—or determine what gets passed to the next generation.This is a conversation about childhood trauma, abuse, identity, generational wounds, faith, healing, and deliverance.🎙️ Church After Dark | Episode 13 — Part 1⚠️ CONTENT NOTE: This episode contains discussion of childhood sexual abuse, trauma, anxiety, and other sensitive experiences. Please watch with care.💬 Join the conversation: How have experiences from childhood shaped the person you became—and what has healing looked like for you?We Keep It Real So We Can Heal.™#ChurchAfterDark #ChurchAfterDarkwithMayelyn #ChildhoodTrauma #Testimony #Healing #Faith #GenerationalHealing #Jesus

Has hustle culture found its way into the Church?In Part 2 of my conversation with Rob, we continue exploring what ministry looks like beyond the pulpit, what it means to truly have reverence for God, and the tension between working hard for what God has given us and constantly striving for more.In a culture that celebrates being booked and busy, and always building, where does faith fit in? And how do we recognize when our pursuit of success—even in ministry—begins competing with our ability to hear and obey God?This isn't a conversation against hard work or ambition. It's a conversation about motive, priorities, obedience and knowing when enough is enough.Because sometimes the question isn't “Can I do more?”It's “Did God ask me to?” 🫶🏽🙏🏽#ChurchAfterDark #ChurchAfterDarkwithMayelyn #HustleCulture #ChristianMen #FaithAndWork #BookedandBusy

What shapes a man—and what happens when life, heartbreak, faith, and conviction begin challenging who he's becoming?In Part 1, Rob takes us back to his roots: growing up as a military kid, being raised as a pastor's son, and discovering the creativity and gifts that would follow him into adulthood.But as the conversation unfolds, we get into much more than his upbringing. Rob opens up about the heartbreak that changed him, the realities of navigating temptation as a Christian man, the importance of conviction and accountability, and what it looks like to serve God outside the four walls of the church.From the barbershop chair to unexpected friendships and encounters with people from every walk of life, this conversation challenges some of the assumptions we make about who God can use, where ministry happens, and what someone's walk with Christ is supposed to look like.Rob isn't claiming perfection—he's talking about the process.Faith. Conviction. Growth. Service. And a God who can meet us right where we are. 🫶🏽🙏🏽#ChurchAfterDark #ChurchAfterDarkwithMayelyn #ChristianMen #FaithJourney #ChristianTestimony

The cycle ends here.In Part 4, Maria and Odemaris confront some of the most painful parts of their family's story—sexual trauma, secrets kept for generations, mental health struggles, shame, broken relationships, and the devastating realization that some of those wounds had reached another generation.But they made a decision: no more secrets. No more hiding. No more allowing shame to keep their family silent.Their story isn't about glorifying what happened to them. It's about what happens when the things hidden in darkness are finally brought into the light—and surrendered to Jesus.Today, Maria and Odemaris minister together. They study God's Word. They have rebuilt their relationship. They are having the hard conversations they once didn't know how to have. And they're determined to help others find the healing they've experienced themselves.Their past didn't disappear.But it no longer gets the final word. Jesus does.As they so beautifully shared:"Give Him your yes. And abide."This is the heart of Church After Dark. We don't tell these stories to glorify trauma. We bring them into the light because what once held us hostage in shame can become the very testimony that points someone else toward healing.There is hope. There is healing. And there is a God who still transforms lives.🎙️ Church After Dark with MayelynWe keep it real so we can heal.#ChurchAfterDark #ChurchAfterDarkwithMayelyn #GenerationalHealing #HealingInJesus #ChristianTestimony

What happens when someone who caused tremendous pain in your life dies—and you still grieve them?Just days before this conversation, Maria and Odemaris received the devastating news that their only brother had been found dead.The circumstances surrounding his death remain unknown as they await answers. But their grief is made even more complicated by everything you've heard throughout this testimony: this was also the brother whose actions caused profound harm within their family.And yet, when the call came, they didn't only see what he had done.They remembered their little brother.They wondered whether he was alone. Whether he was afraid. Whether he suffered. Whether, in his final moments, he called upon Jesus.They grieved the person he became while still remembering the person they knew before.This conversation is not about excusing abuse. Forgiveness does not make what happened acceptable. Nor does forgiveness require survivors to deny their pain.It's about what Maria and Odemaris believe Jesus has done in their hearts—freeing them from carrying hatred, bitterness and unforgiveness while allowing them to acknowledge the truth of what happened.It's also about complicated grief.You can mourn someone and still acknowledge the harm they caused.You can forgive without calling evil good.You can have compassion without rewriting history.And you can grieve without having all the answers.This conversation wasn't even supposed to be part of the episode.The cameras had stopped rolling.Then we started talking about their brother.And I turned them back on.🎙️ Church After Dark with MayelynWe keep it real so we can heal.#ChurchAfterDark #ChurchAfterDarkwithMayelyn #Forgiveness #ComplicatedGrief #ChristianTestimony #SurvivingChildhoodTrauma

The trauma may have happened in childhood, but the wounds followed Maria and Odemaris into adulthood. Broken relationships. Craving validation. Distrust. Anger. Walls built for protection. Even becoming so accustomed to chaos that peace felt uncomfortable. In Part 2, Maria and Odemaris share what healing actually began to look like—not an overnight erasing of everything they endured, but surrendering their lives to Jesus and allowing Him to begin renewing their minds. Prayer. Scripture. Pastoral and traditional counseling. Accountability. Hard conversations. Learning healthy love. Breaking patterns so their children and grandchildren don't have to carry what they carried. And then came a prayer of complete surrender: “Whatever You ask me… You have my yes.” Less than 24 hours later, God confronted Odemaris with something she never expected: reconciliation with the father she hadn't spoken to in 10 years. And unbeknownst to her, God had already been speaking to Maria about the very same thing. Healing didn't mean pretending the wounds never happened. It meant no longer allowing them to have the final word.

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Some childhoods carry experiences no child should endure and inflict wounds no child should have to heal from.In Part 1 of this powerful testimony, two sisters; Maria and Odemaris, open up about growing up in a home marked by mental, physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse.They recount experiences involving occult practices, being placed in a closet and instructed to chant, witnessing suicidal behavior within their home, parental rejection and favoritism, teenage pregnancy, and the lasting impact of growing up surrounded by trauma.But this conversation is not about glorifying darkness.It is about bringing into the light what remained hidden for far too long—and beginning to understand how childhood trauma can follow us into adulthood, our relationships, our families, and our faith.This testimony contains difficult subject matter. Please watch with care.If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or is in immediate emotional distress, call or text 988 in the United States for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. We love you and Jesus can save you! 🎙️ Church After DarkWe keep it real so we can heal.#ChurchAfterDark #ChurchAfterDarkwithMayelyn #ChildhoodTrauma #ChristianTestimony #Healing #SurvivingChildhoodTrauma

What happens when a woman of science encounters Jesus? 🎙️Dr. Navjot Minhas joins me on Church After Dark™ for a conversation about growing up surrounded by Hindu and Sikh beliefs, questioning what she had been taught, and ultimately encountering Jesus in a way that transformed her life.But her testimony is only part of the conversation.As a double board-certified physician, Dr. Minhas brings faith and medicine to the same table as we talk about something the Church still struggles to discuss openly: mental health.Does depression mean you lack faith?Is anxiety simply a spiritual problem?Can prayer, therapy, medicine, and faith coexist?And what happens when someone struggling with mental illness feels too ashamed to ask for help?We also go there on one of the most difficult questions of the episode: suicide, mental illness, salvation, and the mercy of God.This conversation is a reminder that faith and science don't have to be enemies—and struggling doesn't make someone less Christian.This is exactly why we have conversations after dark.We keep it real so we can heal.™ 🤍🎙️#ChurchAfterDark #ChurchAfterDarkwithMayelyn #MentalHealth #ChristianPodcast #FaithAndScience