Episode 11: Shama Mrema on Being Fired From Church and Finding his Calling | Heart To Mission

Shama Mrema was born in Tanzania, raised in Alabama, and moved back to Africa at eleven when his parents planted a church. At eighteen his dad dropped him off in Greenville with a used Jetta, one suitcase, and a crisp $100 bill. Then he got the student pastor job he had pointed his whole life toward, and it lasted seven months. Shama tells Josh about the legal pad of questions that ended his ministry career, delivering pizza in the same town where former students opened the door and asked "Weren't you a pastor?", and what God did with the years after: a viral song about Chick-fil-A, a comedy career nobody planned, and a last conversation with his dad.