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Finding Friends Who Help Me Follow Jesus | Sadie Robertson Huff | Grace Hackett

July 8, 2026

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Finding Friends Who Help Me Follow Jesus

Grace Hackett was 13 when her family adopted Josie Love from Uganda—a three-year-old girl who weighed just 12 pounds, suffering from tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV. Years later, Grace became a mother herself and weighed her firstborn son at three months old. The scale read 12 pounds. "I just remember weeping," she says, finally understanding in her body what she had only known as a fact before.

That moment connects directly to the work Grace does now with Love One, the organization her mother founded after watching Josie Love blossom with proper medical care. The organization runs a rehabilitation center in Uganda for malnourished babies. Grace has been traveling there nearly every year since she was twelve.

But the conversation with Sadie Robertson Huff isn't primarily about Uganda. It's about how Grace found her way to the kind of community that helped her follow Jesus—and what that process actually looked like.

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  • 1 Finding Friends Who Help Me Follow Jesus | Sadie Robertson Huff & Grace Hackett
  • 2 (02:02) **Introducing Grace Hackett** - Sadie welcomes her longtime friend Grace, who shares about her family, her work with Love One, and the parallel stories of their families
  • 3 (07:55) **How the Friendship Began** - Grace and Sadie recount the Lord-ordained series of connections through mutual friend Lauren Akins that brought them together
  • 4 (12:33) **Grace's College Testimony: Searching for Identity** - Grace shares her story of going to the University of Tennessee, joining a sorority, and falling into a lifestyle that left her feeling empty and depressed
  • 5 (15:11) **The Pivot: Lauren Akins and a Trip to Haiti** - Grace describes how a mission trip to Haiti with Lauren became the turning point where she saw someone walking with Jesus in a real, relatable way
  • 6 (17:57) **The Power of Seeing Someone Walk the Walk** - Sadie and Grace discuss how seeing someone genuinely living out their faith makes you realize it's possible for you too
  • 7 (21:02) **Parenting Prayer: A Foundation That Draws Them Back** - The conversation shifts to parenting, with Grace sharing her prayer for her children to have a foundation that calls them back even when they wander

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Guests on this episode

Sadie Robertson Huff

Show Notes

Sadie sits down with her longtime friend Grace Hackett, Director of Engagement at Love One International, an organization whose mission is to support vulnerable families in Uganda. Grace shares how her family’s adoption story helped inspire Love One’s work in Uganda and opens up about the college season that left her feeling empty until godly friendship helped point her back to Jesus. Sadie and Grace answer listener voicemails about old friendships, staying close to God in college, and surrendering the future. 


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