UKRAINE
by Jane Knoop
YOUR PROFESSION IN MISSION
GO THEREFORE “ AND TAKE YOUR JOB WITH YOU Engineering graduate, Josh, discovered an opportunity to use his training to serve in a country where God’s love is so needed but barely known.
For years, I’ve longed for God to show me how I could combine engineering with Christian mission,” says Josh (Glasgow). “I can’t quite believe that God has given me this opportunity; to serve the least reached using the skills that He has given me.”
God’s love and approval. But in that tent at Keswick, the truth hit home. The bar was too high. There was nothing he could do. But Jesus had done it all – the message of the cross suddenly meant everything, “I realised how much I needed Jesus,” Josh recalls.
It was the teaching in the Sermon on the Mount – the enormity of Jesus’ words explained so clearly by a kid’s ministry leader at a Keswick Convention when Josh was 12 – that shattered his young worldview. A conscientious child, he’d always strived to do better, to be better, to earn
This revelation would continue to shape his life and decisionmaking. Josh could not contain the compelling realisation that the message of the cross was not only for him; that there were billions in the world who had never heard the name of Jesus, and remained unaware of their need for Him.
COMBINING PASSIONS FOR HIS KINGDOM
Josh, Wayne and a friend outside the Pyrolysis workshop in June 2019.
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University was a season for Josh to deepen in faith and pursue his fascination and passion for engineering. But how could the two – his desire to share the truth of the Gospel with those who don’t know their need for Jesus, and his years of training in engineering sit together? “I spent much of my fourthyear despairing as to whether I really wanted to continue
