Cookies, Clinics, and Calling: A CoVocational Kingdom Story

In this episode of the H3X Podcast, Dave Miller and guest co-host Andy Befort sit down with Erin, a physician assistant living out a powerful co-vocational calling in Garden City, Kansas. With a heart for unreached people groups and a stethoscope in hand, Erin shares how prayer, perseverance, and practical love opened doors among her Somali neighbors. What began with failed cookie deliveries turned into years of deep relationships, neighborhood healing, and gospel storytelling. Her story is a testament to how the ordinary rhythms of work and life can be saturated with Kingdom purpose when rooted in identity, prayer, and obedience to Jesus.

🔑 Key Insights:

• Prayer precedes breakthrough: Erin’s faithful rhythm of weekly prayer ignited relationships in her Somali apartment complex, leading to years of spiritual engagement.

• Mission is deeply local and deeply personal: Living among her neighbors allowed Erin to meet both physical and spiritual needs, often delivering babies by day and hosting tea by night.

• Faith + Work Integration: Erin modeled and learned how to gently introduce prayer and gospel stories in medical settings, respecting patients while sowing spiritual seeds.

• Redefining success: For Erin, success means obedience, not outcomes. The miracle is in the moment of sharing, not only in visible conversions.

• Messy is meaningful: She affirms that everything real is messy, and ministry done well includes wrestling with boundaries, fatigue, and rejection—but it’s worth it.

• Simple obedience multiplies: Erin emphasizes that you don’t need special training—just a commitment to go deeper with Jesus in your daily life and context.