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HimPower: A lot of people are excited about your new book that’s coming out. Tell us about, Beyond Being Good and how you arrived at the name? K. McCain: Beyond Being Good is probably my greatest personal accomplish- ment! The full title is Beyond Being Good: Seeking Christ’s Perfection for Our Imper- fect Hearts. I’m so excited and absolutely terrified at the same time because I am very vulnerable in this book. I share a lot about my personal journey and growth including mistakes, life lessons and what led me to Jesus. In a nutshell, Beyond Being Good is about coming to a place where we realize that our ability to be good has nothing to do with being loved by God. Our culture likes to use labels and I think “Good Girl” is a dangerous label that many of us have tried to aspire to be known as, only to fall short in some way or another. We aren’t perfect and we never will be until we meet Jesus face-to-face. I struggled a lot with being a “Good Girl”- trying to do everything right while at the same time dealing with silent struggles and too afraid to admit it because of the fear of being a hypocrite. But, Jesus didn’t save us to be “Good Girls”. Salva- tion goes beyond our attempts at personal perfection and the book deals with discov- ering how His perfect love has the power to do the perfect for us and in us, even in our struggles and messes. HimPower: Once your book is released, where can our readers get a copy and what do you want them to take away from it? K. McCain: Beyond Being Good will be released April 10 on Amazon.com, Barne- sandNobles.com and ChristianBook.com. It’s been a year’s journey and I am thankful and excited to see the results of this project. I hope local bookstores and church book- stores will be open to selling the book and allowing me to do some in-person readings and book signings. What I hope is that women of all ages will take away from this book that Salvation is not about our efforts to be “good”, it’s about allowing God’s goodness to change and transform us for His glory. So we can be open about our struggles, knowing that no one is disquali- fied from Salvation. It’s a gift—not a trophy to be won. God’s perfect love is the only thing that has the power to change our hearts and once we begin to rely on His perfection and not our own, then we begin to live in the abundance of His love and begin to walk in our mission and individual callings in more authentic ways. HimPower: Tell us about Pearls of Hope, the organization you founded. K. McCain: Pearls of Hope Outreach is a nonprofit organization founded to foster accountable Christian friendships among young adult women for the sake of encour- agement, Bible Study and outreach oppor- tunities. We strive to operate in authenticity so that women from all backgrounds realize that Salvation is available to anyone and that we are all in a growing process, whether you’ve been a Christian for 10 years or one week. HimPower: What led you to found it, what is its mission and what is your vision www.himpowermagazine.com  37