I was standing in the middle of this vast riverbed that was just desert land and they'd had no rain for over two years.

I just raised my hands to heaven this sense of injustice and saying,

Lord God, you have got to do something because this land so desperately needs rain.

Later that night, we could hear the pitter of rain on the metal tin roof.

Welcome, everybody. It's Simon Gilbo with Inspired. It's great to be back for another fantastic

chat with one of my mates. If you're new to inspired, it's all about telling great stories from

people of all sorts of different walks of life. I love the diversity of the body of Christ.

And Joanna's got a great Christ. And Joanna Watson, we are on holiday together just a few weeks ago in Devon, in Leabby in the summer. We had a wonderful week there. She is a speaker. She's a blogger. She's an author. She runs a big team at Tier Fund, which many of you all know, England's

leading Christian relief and development organizations. She's travel around the world. She's got

loads of cool stories. And I'm looking forward to digging into that. Particularly, it was

1999, wasn't it, Joanna, that you had a very defining incident that we'll come to. Anyway, welcome,

and it's great to have you. Really looking forward to hearing more about your life story.

Tell us, you know, your early days, childhood. It sounds like you had a really happy childhood,

lovely family. Thanks, Simon, and thanks for inviting me on today. Yeah, I guess my story started in a kind of unconventional way.

Well, my parents, they had lived for their first few years of marriage in Thailand, so there's always been an international aspect to my growing up.

But I was raised in a Christian home, and my dad was actually first generation Christian in his family.

He had become a Christian at university. He recalled how he told his parents and they thought he

already was one. And so I think for him raising us on the oldest of four children, it was, he really

wanted it to make a difference, his faith,

in the way he parented us. And my mom has got several generations of Christians above her and behind

her in her family. So I was raised with a very active faith around me, particularly from my dad.

And when I was a teenager, I was about 14 or 15, and I went on a youth camp, and I remember

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