Hello! My name is Josiah Bell, and I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. At age 12, I gave my life to Christ at a church camp. When I was 17, I was in Atlanta, Georgia, on a short-term missions trip. One of the nights there, there was a ministry time where I heard God speak in a way I never had before. I was being prayed over when God spoke to me so clearly about how He wanted me to do missions and go to the unreached. Up until that point, I had planned to do other things with my life, but in that moment, I knew that this was what I was supposed to do with my life. I was radically encountered by God and received a heart for the least reached peoples on the earth. 

After finishing high school, I did a six-month missions training school with YWAM, traveling to Peru for my outreach. While being in the jungle, my heart broke for the people in remote areas who yearn to know more about God, and for the people groups in which people die daily without hearing about the gospel of Jesus. 

After leaving Peru, I sensed God speaking to me about how I might better prepare to move to the unreached. And through prayer, I ended up moving to South Africa to join a larger missions base where I did a Bible School and later joined staff with an organization called Fire and Fragrance.

Fire and Fragrance started as a branch ministry within Youth With A Mission. As of last year, they are their own separate missions org, whose vision is to see young people be devoted to Jesus, awaken a generation of young people with passionate love for God, serve and empower the global church, and send people to the unreached to fulfill the Great Commission. I lived in SA for three years, learned so much more about missions, did a lot of local outreach, worked with a team doing small church planting, and grew so much in my maturity and relationship with God. 

Recently, God directed me to join a base here in Charlotte, North Carolina. I am here doing full-time work with a team that catalyzes and starts indigenous-led discipleship movements in the nations. My eventual goal is to get sent out and launched into the unreached with a team from this base within the next 3 years! 

Partner with me as I join in the work of the Great Commission, telling every nation, tribe, and tongue the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support

- Josiah