Hearing From God

How I Got Started

I was engaged in my daily Bible reading when I came across a verse I had read many times, but this day was going to be different. Psalm 82:3-4 says defend the poor and the fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy; deliver the poor and the needy; free them from the hand of the wicked. That day my heart broke for refugees and I began to pray about what God wanted me to do. After a couple of weeks of prayer I felt like this refugee work was bigger than our church and that I should launch into missions work. A few weeks later a word from the Lord came through a young lady at our church spoke to me to let me know the word from the Lord was this, "He's got this, trust Him!" I continued to drill down on my prayer time and one night, unbelievably, miraculously, Jesus appeared to me in a dream and spoke these words to me, "this is the work I have for you and I will open the doors." With that I applied for and received approval from the US Home Missions department to begin work with Middle Eastern refugees in the metro Detroit area. We were approved in January 2017, went to orientation in March and began itinerating shortly thereafter.