Episode 13 - Brian Owens - How to Keep Going When Life Gets Too Hard... | Heart To Mission

Brian Owens was called to ministry at 14, then spent 14 years in the banking world watching every church door close and every business door open. He couldn't make sense of it until he landed at Upstate Church in 2009 and realized God had been building the exact skills the job would require. Then in August of 2021, after a hard bout with COVID and a run of medication that left his wife Sherry saying she knew her thoughts weren't true but couldn't stop them, Brian lost her to suicide. He walks Josh through that morning, what he told his four kids on the other side of the soccer field, the friend who showed up without asking a single question, and what he's learned since about grief in a public facing job, why every leader needs a counselor, and how a God who loves you is not always a safe one.