David Johnson: Pastor Leaves Thriving Church To Fund Global Missions #23

Yeah, it's so crazy.

You know, oftentimes we move because we're running away from something.

We have trouble with where we are.

Things are going difficult.

And then we decide to leave.

That was not my case.

I could not have been happier where I was at Dayspring, what God was doing there.

But you're right.

He woke me up at 2.32 a.m. in October of 08 and basically said, I have a new assignment for you.

And it's interesting, he spoke to me in business terms.

He said, I wanna move you from micro to macro ministry.

And he gave me four words, give, go, ask, expect.

You give, you go, you ask others expectantly to join you in the work, which then I had no idea what the work was.

And yet I've got two guys, you know, there were three of us that co-founded Doulas together, Scott Garofsky and Wayne Myrick.

And so I began to talk to those guys.

They had a foundation actually called the Doulas Foundation.

And so it was really crazy because God had given me this word, you know, of Doulas.

And so we kind of came together.

And our deal was we were so Western-ish.

JD and our and our socialization about missions.

You know, we we had people that God would raise up out of our congregations.

They would sell everything.

They would go to the field.

They would learn language.

And I have such an amazing respect for men and women who leave everything to go to the field.