I've seen the faithful hand of a God who's always known what people needed.

Whether they were a wealthy person in LA or whether they were a refugee who is living in the corner of Phoenix.

Every tribe and tongue, God is seeking them out and is inviting us to get involved.

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. It's great to be back with you. We've got another fantastic guest. Welcome, Joe Saxton.

Hi. Thanks for having you.

It's, yeah, it's great to have you. Joe and I go back just, I think, over 20 years.

Yeah. When we first met, you were Joanna a Yeniram.

Yeah. And I don't know if you remember that time, but it was,

it was hilarious in retrospect. It wasn't funny at the time because I went up to preach in Sheffield.

I think you were running St. Tom's Crooks, the young adults or youth were. And I arrived at the

Roxy Cimima. I got there two hours early. and it turned out I've been given the wrong venue and this

is, I mean you probably did have a website but I was trying to track down anyone.

I didn't know you, I didn't know where I was meant to be and eventually sort of two minutes

before I was meant to speak.

We managed to connect and I just about made it in time.

So that was our first stressful meeting but But since then, you hosted us in L.A.

when I did my cycling rise from San Diego to Charleston.

That was a 34-day adventure in which your husband, Chris, joined us for the first couple of days.

And then he came out to Burundi and did the Burundi cycle rise. So we've had loads of stuff overlapping at conferences like New

Wine over the years and so that's just putting it in context. Now Joe for everybody that

doesn't yet know her, she's an author, speaker, podcast host, leadership coach, was raised in

England. We're going to talk about that, but now living in Minnesota in the US. So that's a bit of introduction. Now, listen, Joe, let's just crack on in there. So again, if you're new to inspired, it's just about telling great stories, encouraging stories of faith. We're bombarded with bad news. There's so much bad stuff going around the world. And it's really depressing to focus on that. And I think it's really just hit the spot in terms of so many people responding every week. So writing and saying, thank you, thank you. This is keeping me in there in the faith. So I'm excited to hear how Joe, you're going to inspire us. No pressure. But go on. That's great. Thank you. Take it away. Tell us about your childhood, first of all.

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