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A beautiful space like the chapel “allows room for God to meet people exactly where they’re at”; and “being in a beautiful space, someone doesn’t have to decide anything.

Her work since has grown into a nonprofit, the Drawing Near to God Ministry Inc., that will hold its third annual conference April 13-14 in Charleston at Ashley River Baptist Church.

In “The Story of God,” aired as a six-part series beginning Sunday, Freeman moors himself in Greenwood, Miss., his hometown and source of his family and identity.