Featuring: Lisa Harper, Allison Allen, Sarah Jakes Roberts, Janice Gaines, Holly Wagner, Dr. Donna Pisani, Vivian Mabuni, Kristi McLelland, Stephanie Sohnchen, Nicola Douglass, Lori Robinson, Kaylee Shae Harvey, Karen Harmon, Julie Woodruff

In one of the most powerful and tender sessions of the Kerygma Summit, a diverse panel of seasoned leaders, pastors, teachers, creatives, and mothers gather to reflect on the mercy of God's timing and the mystery of His presence. Through stories of delay, detours, suffering, and sacred surprise, this panel offers honest, hard-won wisdom about life and leadership in a Kingdom where God is never late, but rarely early.

Lisa Harper and Allison Allen guide the conversation with grace and laughter, drawing out two soul-deep questions:
Where have you seen God's mercy in a delay?
How have you personally experienced Jesus—as lion or lamb—in the course of your life and leadership?

Each woman answers with vulnerability and fire: from the pain of broken hips, broken dreams, and breast cancer, to the beauty of being held by God in hospital rooms, quiet corners, and leadership seasons they never saw coming. Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts shares about moving from reluctant obedience to postured surrender. Kristi McLelland ministers through grief over her mother’s hospice journey. And voices like Vivian Mabuni, Janice Gaines, and Holly Wagner call the Church back to connection, intimacy, and sacred perseverance.