09/05/2026
When Joel was five years old, God spoke to him while he was worshiping in a tree: “Joel, will you preach for me?”
Years later, on a second date with the woman who would become his wife, she asked him a simple question: “Does that mean as a pastor in the United States, or anywhere on planet Earth?”
In that moment, Joel realized he had placed limits on the call of God.
What began with a child hearing God in a tree became a journey of planting churches among people with little access to the Gospel.