Joseph's Story

Joseph heard about the One Day Church program at General Youth Conference last year and knew he wanted to help with this program. He attended the Maranatha Volunteers International’s convention this past September and decided it was time to do something about it.

Joseph isn’t a stranger to mission work. He went on a short-term project during his junior year in high school and they worked on the second story walls and ceiling of a church in Mexico. When I asked him what story he had to tell from that trip, Joseph said: “nothing too memorable” and that it was a much different time in his life. He noted that the missing ingredient to an extraordinary mission trip was interaction with the people.

He is looking forward to meeting the needs of others and to spread God’s love in whatever way he can. Joseph also expects to have a better mission trip experience this time around and knowing the other participants as I do I have no doubt that he will find this trip personally rewarding and spiritually invigorating.

I asked Joseph how God had been working in his life recently especially related to the upcoming mission trip. He said: “I had a couple of jobs come up that I wasn’t expecting. They were just enough to get me caught up on my bills and pay for this trip. God has really blessed me with work at a time when so many are struggling.” Praise God!

Excited to serve,

Lynda

Joseph is a young adult living in the Portland, OR area. He is a general contractor with experience in pole buildings and other metal projects. He also had the opportunity to lay block walls while in Mexico as a teenager.