Invisible Children, Inc.

I joke that it was after my third sophomore year of college I came to know Christ, and you know, immediately he put on my heart Africa.

I got involved as soon as I became a Christian, and I don't know if you may have remembered this, but it was called the Invisible Children, where it was the Joseph Kony situation in northern Uganda, where an organization called the Lord's Resistance Army was kidnapping kids and making them fight in a civil war.

I got involved in that at the college I was attending.

And because of that connection, a local church invited me to go to Uganda, just to the east of where this was going on.

So she was the OG boots on the ground in South Sudan when Joseph Kony was terrorizing.

If you remember Invisible Children, Kony 2012, the UN called it one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our time where this one demonized man would go village to village And he would kidnap children, brainwash them, turn them into child soldiers, go to the next village, kill everyone, kidnap the soldiers, and just do it on repeat throughout South Sudan.

So Carol Ward was the first person on the ground there.

And one day she's driving through this village.

Right? [laughs] And she, she said for seven years, she didn't hear anything from the Lord.

She would just pray, "Lord, would you give me the honor of being a martyr?" She said the Holy Spirit spoke really clearly when she was 17 and said, "Not until you lose your fear." So she goes, "Lord, would you g- give me the honor of being a martyr?" Holy Spirit says, "Not till you lose your fear." She goes, "Okay, Lord, then give me more faith." And he goes, "It won't be faith that kills your, your fear, it'll be love, becoming perfect love that drives out fear." She said, "Okay, Lord, baptize me in love." Well, I don't know if you remember Kony 2012, Invisible Children-

Of course

... those documentaries that came out in South Sudan.

So it was very safe and sort of very just normal sort of upbringing.

And watching this documentary is called Invisible Children was a free documentary that aired many years ago.

And I just couldn't believe that there was places in the world that had this sort of poverty and had this sort of need.

So, I think from that age, I was pretty inspired.

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You know, w- I came of age in the Shane Claiborne Irresistible Revolution, TOMS shoes, Invisible Children era of-

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... millennial evangelicals and maybe younger Gen Xers, like Claiborne's probably Gen X, really kind of rallying young Christians to save the world.