Arise & Go: The assignment you didn’t choose…
Johannah Huber

Sometimes, the most meaningful moments aren’t the ones we plan. 

Our Arise & Go Challenge cards were an invitation for all of us to step out in faith, whether through a conversation, a small act of kindness, or a bold move of courage. But even when we don’t take a card or choose a specific challenge, God still finds ways to draw us into His work.


Annmarie experienced that firsthand! Through her own admission, she walked past the challenge cards on Sunday, citing “confession time” for having walked past them. But the Lord still found a way! 

While she didn’t officially take a card, she found herself in a conversation with a coworker and a friend about something going on in her life, and in the midst of it, she mentioned the idea of “sitting in the ashes,” a major point of Tyler’s previous Jonah sermon. 

She sent her coworker the link to the sermon, and when her coworker’s older sister asked more about their conversation. When she heard about the Jonah series, she shared that the Lord had recently led her to read Jonah herself, though she hadn’t understood why. After receiving the sermon notes and links to the messages, she began to see how God was connecting the dots.

Even without a formal challenge, Annmarie’s story reminds us that God is always at work, using our ordinary conversations and small acts of obedience to reach hearts in unexpected ways.


The Arise & Go challenge cards were never meant to be the only way we step out in faith, but rather to be used as simple tools: prompts to help us notice where God might already be calling us to move. True obedience doesn’t depend on a weekly challenge, although they can be helpful: it grows out of a heart that’s willing to listen and respond to the Lord’s prompting. 

As the story of Jonah reminds us, God’s call to Arise & Go doesn’t end when the series does. He continues to invite us to follow Him daily, to speak when he prompts us, to go where he leads us, to act where he commands us to…

Have your own Arise & Go story? We’d love to hear it today at orangewood.org/story