Sometimes, God calls us to big things, and just needs our "yes" (and some hard work) to accomplish it. That's what happened in today's story. Our Lord placed a deep desire in a young woman named Emma Clark to evangelize. And since there were no teams where she lives (Maine), she started her own!
With the start of Covid in 2020, Emma was filled with a deep longing to share God's love with others, and to inspire people around her to trust in God's goodness and mercy. These desires were important to Emma after experiencing some scary medical issues that brought about her own reversion to the Church. She began buying prayer cards and Miraculous Medals and giving them out to people she knew. There wasn't a team in Maine at the time, so she didn't exactly know how to start "officially" evangelizing. In Nov. 2020, she joined our Virtual Street Evangelization Workshop on Zoom and describes it as "life changing!" Now filled with confidence, she began giving Miraculous Medals to everyone--neighbors, the mailman and strangers on the street. She learned that everyone is called to evangelize as Catholics and that you don't have to have a college degree in apologetics to evangelize. She realized that this longing in her heart to join a SPSE team was from God, but the fact that there wasn't a team yet in the state of Maine was just God's invitation to give Him her "yes" and trust Him! And as we know, He can do so much with a "yes!" She's now the team leader for the first SPSE team in the state of Maine.
