{"id":1234,"date":"2016-06-07T12:06:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missiondiscovery.org\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2021-09-07T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:54:10","slug":"what-calls-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missiondiscovery.org\/news\/what-calls-you\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT CALLS YOU?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2013, I caught this picture of Joel Cox taking a moment to soak in the beauty of Bulembu, Swaziland.\u00a0Bulembu cares for over 500 orphans and each year the ministry that owns the town invites Mission Discovery teams to experience and work in the town whose theme is \u201cRestore a town, Change a nation!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bulembu is no easy place to reach.\u00a0It cost Joel a 16-hour plane ride across the Atlantic Ocean and then a 6-hour bus ride across South Africa to the Kingdom of Swaziland.\u00a0Joel worked for a railroad company\u2026organizing logistics for transporting goods across the U.S.\u00a0And each time Joel and I talked I could tell that his mission trips (Mission Discovery\u2019s Bulembu wasn\u2019t his only passion) were shaping his thinking.\u00a0\u00a0When Joel explained his job to me the only thing that I really understood was the word \u201ctrain.\u201d\u00a0I faked understanding what he really did.<\/p>\n<p>Joel was hearing the voice of God calling him to choose a vocation that would serve the poor.<\/p>\n<p>The last few months have been big for Joel!\u00a0He married his sweetheart, Andrea, and he decided to join the staff of Seed Effect, a Christ-centered micro-finance organization dedicated to planting the seeds that overcome poverty in marginalized communities around the world!\u00a0\u00a0I just saw a post from Joel from Southern Sudan&#8230;on a dirt landing strip no less!!!<\/p>\n<p>So what is Joel pondering in the picture above?<\/p>\n<p>All of us have a moment when a still, small voice calls to us to act beyond our abilities\u2026to trust that God\u2019s plan is good.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Joel and Andrea for letting us enter your story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2013, I caught this picture of Joel Cox taking a moment to soak in the beauty of Bulembu, Swaziland.\u00a0Bulembu cares for over 500 orphans and each year the ministry that owns the town invites Mission Discovery teams to experience and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[65,66,67],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WHAT CALLS YOU? 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