Living on Purpose: Pastor David Camp on Faith, Community, and Calling
About this episode
Pastor David Camp of West Cobb Church in Marietta, Georgia joins Philip Cameron to share one of the most gripping redemption stories you'll hear — a testimony of faith through loss that refuses to stay buried under tragedy. In 2022, just three months after accepting the call to pastor West Cobb Church, David's wife of 32 years, Angela, died suddenly in a drowning accident at their home. At the same moment, the software company he co-leads in the real estate and mortgage industry lost 75% of its customer base as the market collapsed. Wave after wave of loss — personal, financial, and pastoral — crashed against him simultaneously. Yet David chose to yield. "The God that I knew or thought I knew is far greater than the God I know today," he says. Rather than collapse, he led a grieving congregation through its own season of chaos, and God brought a widow named Beverly into his life. Their blended family — including David's daughters, who were fully on board — became a living picture of redemption. West Cobb Church grew from 180 to nearly 450 weekly attendees between June 2022 and April 2025. If you are walking through compounding loss right now, this conversation is for you. David's story proves that God enlarges us in our distress — and that the storm you're facing will not drown you. Visit West Cobb Church if you're in the Marietta, Georgia area.
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Quotes worth sharing
“The God that I knew, or thought I knew, is far greater than the God I know today. He was faithful. He carried me in the midst of all that was coming at me personally, in the midst of all of the chaos. Because I chose to be an individual that was willing to submit to whatever God desired in my life through these moments, He showed up in a very powerful way. And I can say that through this experience, I know the power of God, the presence of God, and the faithfulness of God in a way that I never knew before.”
“The constant in your life isn't you. The constant, the anchor of your life is God. It's Him that fixes you. And you can flop around and go up and down as the waves, but He never changes. He is constant in your pain, constant in your distress.”
“Despite the shaking of their foundations, you're shaping their lives to put them in a position so that they can be your voice, and so that they can speak into the lives of a community that has a need for Jesus. Father, we have the privilege of being on the team that declares a redemption story.”
What's Discussed
Pastor David Camp of West Cobb Church in Marietta, Georgia recounts how, in June 2022, just three months into his new pastoral role, his wife Angela of 32 years died suddenly in a drowning accident. Simultaneously, his co-vocational software company serving the real estate and mortgage industry lost 75% of its customer base. Rather than abandon his calling, David led his congregation through shared grief, leaned into God's faithfulness, and eventually married Beverly, a widow. His daughters embraced the new family. West Cobb Church grew from 180 to nearly 450 weekly attendees by April 2025. David closes the episode in prayer, declaring that the enemy is already defeated and urging believers to stand firm through compounding loss.
- Angela's Sudden Death and Pastoral Calling
- Leading a Grieving Church Through Loss
- God Brings Beverly Into David's Life
- West Cobb Church Growth from 180 to 450
- Co-Vocational Ministry and Market Collapse
- God's Faithfulness Amid Compounding Tragedy
- Prayer for Those Facing Overwhelming Loss
- Declaring Redemption as a Believer's Story
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, my friend. Welcome to "Daily Faith." My name is Philip Cameron, and I am delighted to have you with us today. I've got a dear friend on, and a great story to share with you today. If you're going through sorrow, if you're going through tough times, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Philip:But in distress, David said this. He says, "You've enlarged me in my distress." There's something about suffering that makes us grow. When the happy days come, and the good times come, and the mountaintop comes, we dance and skip and woohoo and sing, and there's no work done in us. Where the work's done is the valley. It's in the valley that He restores your soul. It's through the tough times. When you stand up in the darkest night and keep on going and stand and say, "Lord, though you slay me, yet will I trust you." That's when the miracles take place.
Philip:And if you're going through a tough time, if you know someone, there's someone you love in your family, someone, a friend of yours right now that's going through a terrible moment, and you're sick watching them, and you don't know what to do, here's something you can do. Just call them and say, "Hey, go to dailyfaith.tv and listen to this story and the testimony today." If you do that, God could use you to be a blessing to someone else.
Philip:David Camp. He pastors a church, West Cobb Church, in Marietta, Georgia. A great church, growing church, successful church. And its beginning days when he went there was shaken to the very foundation, and he found God faithful in it. And you are going to wait until you hear what's happened since then. And I'm just delighted to have you. If you can turn on your notification, there's a wee bell that'll let you know when "Daily Faith" comes on. And I've been having terrible trouble with my voice. In fact, I have had vocal surgery, but we're coming back, and it's feeling better all the time. And I'm believing God for a total restoration, and I want you to pray with me for that as well.
Philip:"Daily Faith" is on YouTube, and it's simple: youtube.com/dailyfaith. And you can watch us there. And the main home base for us is dailyfaith.tv. Dailyfaith.tv. Every program we've done is there, and you can go back through the programs, and I'll promise you, there's not a circumstance you're facing that we haven't talked about here on "Daily Faith," because we care about you. This program is here to be a daily reminder that God is walking with you, and He's never going to leave you or forsake you, because He loves you with a love that will never let you go.
Philip:Listen, I've talked enough. This is a wee warm-up part we do before the program starts. I'm just so glad you're here because I believe God's got something for you today. Don't you leave. We're delighted to have you. Welcome to "Daily Faith."
Philip:Welcome to Daily Faith today. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am delighted to have you with us. We've got a real pointed program today that's going to bring hope into your life. If you're going through a tough time, God has arranged you to see this program, because there's never a storm in your life that will not eventually blow itself out. I come from the northeast corner of Scotland, if you're wondering where my accent's from. I've been here so long that I sound like one of y'all these days. But we come from the northeast corner of Scotland, a tiny fishing town called Peterhead. It's the most northeasterly town, right out in the North Sea. We're 120 miles across the North Sea to Norway. That's how far we are.
Philip:And if the wind comes from the south, it's a storm off the water. If it comes from the east, it's a storm off the water. If it's a northerly, it comes down on top of us. So we are always having storms. And I've watched some storms in Scotland that have made me weep, thinking about the fishing men in the small boats that were out in that storm trying to catch some fish. But one thing I've learned, a storm has never lasted. It always comes to an end. And the Lord wants you to know today, in your circumstance, that the storm you're facing is coming to an end in the name of Jesus.
Philip:The pain you're feeling, the discouragement in your heart that the devil is piling onto you — it's not going to last, because God is for you. And if God be for you, who can be against you? He has got you in the hollow of His hand, and nothing can separate you from His love. And you're going to meet someone today that has gone through hell. Gone through hell. I can't even imagine what this man has lived through. But I'll tell you what, he's been successful. And David Camp is going to share his story, and the results and the victories that came out of it, because God's in his corner, and in your corner, too. Aren't you glad for that?
Philip:Many years ago, my dad called me in Scotland, and he said the most ridiculous thing. He said, "Our baby's dying." I says, "What are you talking about, baby's dying?" And he'd been watching the BBC, and the country of Romania had a revolution Christmas Eve, and they killed the dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu. And they discovered that he had force-bred his population. No one was allowed to have contraception. Abortion was banned — the only good thing he did. And what happened was, he filled the orphanage system in Romania with hundreds of thousands of babies.
Philip:My dad was watching these programs as the BBC discovered these horrendous sights. And he called me one day and he says, "I want to go." I said, "Dad, you're sick." He'd had cancer surgery, and his wound had burst on his back, and he couldn't move. He had a body brace to stop him twisting his back to make the tear grow bigger. And every day he called me, he says, "Our baby's dying. What are you doing about it?" I said, "Dad, you're sick. I'm busy. Leave this alone." And one day he says, "I'm going. I can't sit here and watch this another day."
Philip:And that forced me to go. And we got a whole bunch of trucks, and it was a huge event, and we got to this place called Timișoara and went to this orphanage. And I had no idea that destiny had brought me to that point, and I just wanted to show him two or three rooms and get out of there, because it was horrible. The smell of human waste, starving babies. And I kept saying, "Let's go, Dad. Let's go." "No, no, let's go in this room here." And I'm saying, "Dad, please don't. Let's not." And then he says, "Let's go upstairs."
Philip:I says, "No, no, no, no. We've seen enough. It's all the same." And he ignored me. Thank God he ignored me. Sometimes you're dragged into a situation that God's got you dragged into. And upstairs there was a salon number five. I can see the sign on the door. And he opened the door and walked in, and there was, like, 30 kids, and I walked past him into the room. And right in the middle of all these kids was a wee face, a little boy. I knew he was a boy because he was half naked. And he's climbing up on his tiptoes, looking up over the bar of the cribs, looking at me. All the kids rocking because they'd never been cuddled by a mom.
Philip:And the Lord said, "That's your son," clear as I'm talking to you. I went down and picked him up and I said, "I don't know who you are, but I'm never going to quit until I get you to be my son." And it took me a year. And in that year, they had no toilets — we put in toilets. They had leaking roofs. The radiator didn't work. We put a new heating system in. And we changed the whole place, and by the time that year was done and we adopted Andrew, I was hooked on caring for kids. And for the last 35 years, my whole family have been involved in helping young people.
Philip:Now, what's happened over the years, we evolved with Moldova. And in Moldova, a kid is put on the street at 16, a little girl or boy, and they're put on the street with no money. And the only thing they have is their body, and traffickers come and offer them jobs — fake jobs in Italy and Germany — and they get in the back of a car and they're gone forever. Used 30 to 50 times a day.
Philip:In the last number of years, God's helped us to build the most amazing place called Vatra Village. It's a village of homes right on the largest lake. It was built for rich people to have a summer vacation home on the lake. And they poisoned the lake with chlorine because they were trying to kill algae. And that village of homes just sat unfinished for nine years. And we bought them, finished them, and every room and every bed is filled right now with either a young girl or a young boy. We have one boys home there.
Philip:And these kids come to us broken, with just the clothes on their back, been told all their lives, "You're garbage. You're nothing." They come from poor homes, desperate situations, and God brings them to us, and they turn from orphans into sons and daughters and into missionaries. And we just got a brand-new video. Our kids have got a camera back home in Moldova. And they make these videos for me. I don't tell them what to do. I don't tell them what to say. They produce them. They videotape them. They speak. They write. Everything is done by them. And when we hit play, what we see is what you see.
Philip:And a couple of sisters came the other day, just a few weeks ago, into Vatra Village, and their lives have been transformed already, and they wanted to make a video to thank you. Watch this. Twin sisters. Watch this.
Hello. My name is Loredana. My name is Bogdana. I was born in a small village in the north part of Moldova, in a family of four children.
When I was eight years old, our parents had to go to work abroad. We had to stay at home alone. Our grandma came to our house, even if she was old, and she brought with her bread or some food to take care of us.
For me, my childhood was beautiful, but also hard. Sometimes I felt lost, and I think that I lost my hope. Our mother is not working since our little brother was born, and because he's a baby, she has to stay home and take care of him. She struggled with many problems because she couldn't afford to pay the bills, and she couldn't afford to buy us food or clothes. Even if it was hard, I thank God for my sister that also helped me and was beside me in every moment, beautiful or bad.
After I finished middle school, I wanted to study at high school because I wanted a university degree, and I wanted to have a better future. Eight years ago, Door of Hands came in our village and made a camp with kids, and that's how we got in touch with someone from this ministry. And after we finished middle school, he contacted us and told us that we could study in Chisinau. We were so happy because we found a chance to make our dreams come true. We had the opportunity to study and to make our life better.
My biggest dream is to succeed in the University of Political Science, because this could offer me a position from where I can help other children. I will have the ability to change and to make some decisions that could make this world a better place. Thank you for the chance to have a better future. Thank you for the opportunity to have such a big family and to be loved.
Philip:You just met Loredana and Bogdana, twins, that we found on one of our outreaches. All through the year, our kids are involved in outreaches. They go to the most forgotten villages you've ever imagined and share the gospel for the first time. Many of the kids have never heard about Jesus before. And God is using orphans to become missionaries. Kids that are being abandoned by their parents.
Philip:What happens is, if they're not abandoned into an orphanage, a mother and father leave for Western Europe to get a job and leave their kids alone. These two girls were left alone in a house, and their grandmother came and fed them. Can you imagine? Two kids, little kids, by themselves in a house. Mom and Dad gone to Germany or wherever. And most times when they get to Western Europe, the cost of living is so high that they go hoping to send money home, but they go and end up having to spend all the money just to live in Western Europe. And these kids were just lost.
Philip:And our kids had a camp, providentially, in the village where they lived. And they met our kids, and our kids said, "Come to Vatra Village." And those young girls are the exact model that the trafficker looks for. Mom and Dad gone, poor, desperate, looking for a way to survive. And they'll say, "We've got a restaurant in Italy. We'll give you $100 a month and a place to stay." Thankfully, these two girls, amazingly, were protected by the grandmother.
Philip:And they are now part of our worship team that goes into these villages. And one plays a guitar, and one plays a piano, and they sing and lead worship and praise as we share the gospel with other people. I've never seen a work so unique as what we're doing in Moldova and in Ukraine. It's just amazing how God's taking these orphans and turning them around.
Philip:Each of these girls you're looking at — both girls, caught by a trafficker — is worth $300,000 a year for the trafficker. Two girls, two sisters like this, $600,000 a year. It's unbelievable. And we just believe that God has caused us and called us to build these homes, to save lives. You can't tell someone about trafficking and then not give them a place to sleep, or a place to study, and a place to eat. And by building these homes in these villages, we are seeing lives transformed.
Philip:Everything you're looking at happens by someone giving $1 a day. Isn't that amazing? Someone just like you said, "I'm going to give $1 a day." And enough folk give a dollar a day and the miracle takes place. It's incredible. And if you'd like to help us — and we need your help — we're expanding. We're about to start a whole new vision and adventure. We've bought a place with two homes that will house 50 small kids between the age of four and 16. And there's a huge barn that we're going to turn into a campground. We're going to make a Disney World in Moldova.
Philip:It's absolutely crazy. There it is. That square of land — that's the two houses right there. And we just can't wait to get started. We just signed this a few days ago, and we need 300 people per house to sponsor these houses. That's the barn that we're going to turn into a campground like you've never seen. Oh my goodness. Oh, that just gets me excited because I know how many lives are going to change.
Philip:You can help us today by giving a dollar a day if you can. It's really simple. Just go to Orphan's Hands, PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee. Orphan's Hands, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. Your gift can change someone's life for eternity. Who they marry, how they study, their whole life can be transformed by a dollar a day. Let the Lord use you.
Philip:I'm so excited to have David Camp with me today. He pastors West Cobb Church in Marietta, Georgia, and he has a story to tell you, and I can't wait for you to hear what God's done in this man's life. David, I appreciate you so much for being with us today. Thank you for being on "Daily Faith."
Angela's Sudden Death and Pastoral Calling
David Camp:Phil, thank you. It's an honor, and we've been able to walk a journey together. You guys have been a part of my story from very early on, and so I'm honored to be able to share that with you guys, with your audience. Thank you. And it's a privilege.
Philip:Give us a quick recap for someone that's just watching, didn't see the last program. Tell us your story and where the forward part of the story we're living in now.
David Camp:Yeah. So in 2022, my wife of 32 years, Angela, she passed away suddenly — a drowning accident in our home. And so there's obviously tragedy and trauma that comes with loss in general, but the way in which Angela passed away was just horrific. Horrendous. And in the midst of that, we had just accepted the call to pastor West Cobb Church, and we were three months into that journey together that both of us felt certainly called to.
David Camp:And then, now we're in a situation where we have this calling, there's this sudden loss. And not only is my family, myself, and my two daughters moving through this journey, but now we have a body, a local church, that's grieving over the loss of a pastor's wife.
Leading a Grieving Church Through Loss
Philip:Of a new first lady, basically.
David Camp:Yeah. Exactly. And then from there, in the midst of your grief, in the midst of the sorrow, there's just this great responsibility that God had placed on my heart and on my life to lead the church. And learning to lead when you're not leading from a place of strength, you're dealing with the hardship of loss, the hardship of grief. But yet God puts people around you to pick you up. God puts people around you that will help you through this journey. And our body, West Cobb Church, it was a church that had gone through a great season of suffering and chaos in and of itself. How God used that tragedy to rally us together, and you see the beauty of the church.
David Camp:And then, not long after, God brings into my life a widow, Beverly, whom we were on your first show together, I believe. And yes. And so Beverly and I walked our journey of grief together, have been a part of leading West Cobb Church, and God has done a great work both within the church, but in addition to that, God has used us in the lives of many widows and widowers. And so much that God is doing in our life.
God Brings Beverly Into David's Life
Philip:And your daughters were all in. What I want folks to know is his daughters were as much a part of driving this new relationship together. And so he went from abject sorrow, from devastation. A new church — new to him — that had gone through the same kind of devastation. So here you have all these broken people. A widow comes into the picture, devastated. These aren't unhappy marriages. These are folks in love with their spouse that have been taken away. And so you've got a broken church, a broken pastor, and a broken widow with kids with broken hearts, and God turns this recipe, this disastrous, sad affair, into a miracle. So you get married, your girls are all in, and the church begins to grow. Tell the folks what's happening now, how God has changed this whole thing.
David Camp:Yeah. One, let's talk about how God has used the church in the community. When the first Sunday I was pastor of the church, we had a total of 180 people, and that was in June of 2022. Now here we are in April of 2025, and we average nearly 450 people in attendance each week. So God is just... And not that numbers are everything, but it's an indication of life change.
West Cobb Church Growth from 180 to 450
David Camp:And when you've dealt with all of the circumstances, Philip, that you just described, you learn as a leader very specific things. So not only is God shaping you through your grief, not only is God moving you through the sorrow, not only is God bringing redemptive elements into your life, but God is reshaping you as a leader. And in that reshaping, He brings you to a place, if you yield, to where you're more effective.
David Camp:I learned a lot about myself, and I've been in leadership a long time. One part of my story that I haven't shared with you, Philip, in detail is that I call it co-vocational pastor, not bi-vocational. I have two full-time jobs and I own a software company in the real estate and mortgage industry. And right after I lost Angela, three months into that loss, the mortgage and real estate world collapses, and we lose 75% of our customer base within a three-month period.
Co-Vocational Ministry and Market Collapse
David Camp:So you've got loss personally, you've got loss financially, you're in a market that's collapsing, all this change, and you really learn how powerful and how present God is in the midst of your tragedy.
Philip:Hallelujah. As you're talking just now, David, I can feel the Holy Ghost speaking faith through your mouth. If you're watching this just now and you are in a place of loss upon loss upon loss, remember when Job — as he yet spake, someone else came and said, "All your cattle is gone." As he yet spake. There comes a time when it seems like the waves come to drown you, and every wave in itself — one wave is enough to kill you, and the next one comes, and the next one comes.
Philip:And we are here to tell you that God knows where you are, and He loves you and will not let you fail. Listen to me. He will not let you fail. I just feel so strongly the impetus of the Holy Spirit to let you know that the storm you're in is not going to drown you. It's going to carry you to the next victory in your life.
God's Faithfulness Amid Compounding Tragedy
David Camp:Hallelujah. Yeah. The word you used, Philip, was faith. And the God that I knew, or thought I knew, is far greater than the God I know today. He was faithful. He carried me in the midst of all that was coming at me personally, in the midst of all of the chaos. Because I chose to be an individual that was willing to submit to whatever God desired in my life through these moments, He showed up in a very powerful way. And I can say that through this experience, I know the power of God, the presence of God, and the faithfulness of God in a way that I never knew before.
Philip:So as David said, King David says, "You've enlarged me in my distress." If we allow the circumstance... I've gone through some days in my life. I have gone through days that I honestly thought I wouldn't survive until the evening time. And you know what? When the dawn came the next day, I was still there, still standing, still believing. Words couldn't describe how I felt. Actions could. But I'll tell you what I did. I stood. I stood. I refused to lie down and give up.
Philip:And if you are in a circumstance today, God knows where you are. God knows your uprisings, He knows your downfalls, but He's still God. And the constant in your life isn't you. The constant, the anchor of your life is God. It's Him that fixes you. And you can flop around and go up and down as the waves, but He never changes. He is constant in your pain, constant in your distress. And if you get nothing out of "Daily Faith" today other than this, He will never fail you.
David Camp:Never. He would never. Never.
Philip:And you're talking with a man right now that lost his wife in a... They were going out somewhere, and he went out and found her dead in the pool. How do you ever get over that? And here he is today. God's brought him a new mate. His girls have been healed, and the whole family unit, like a brand new miracle. The church is growing because he trusted God in his darkest hour. We've got three minutes left, David. Can you pray? I know there's someone watching, and they're going through hell right now, and you can speak the word of faith into their lives.
David Camp:Absolutely. Father, in this moment, we don't know who's watching. We don't understand even the circumstance that those watching are contending with. But Father, what I know is the presence and the power of you in my life. The faithfulness of you in my life. And Father, I know that you choose and desire to do that in the lives of your people.
Prayer for Those Facing Overwhelming Loss
David Camp:And I pray for those that may hear this story, just a portion of this story, that it will provide them the encouragement that they need to be relentless. The enemy is choosing to come at us as individuals, choosing to come at us as a part of the church, with the idea that he can defeat and that he can destroy. But the truth and the reality is that the enemy is defeated and already destroyed. And we need to stand in the confidence, Father, that you have provided to us already.
David Camp:And so, Lord, may people be encouraged through the tragedy, through the struggle. May they know and understand that you are shaping their lives. Despite the shaking of their foundations, you're shaping their lives to put them in a position so that they can be your voice, and so that they can speak into the lives of a community that has a need for Jesus. Father, we have the privilege of being on the team that declares a redemption story. And Father, I pray that all of us will choose as believers to tell that story, and in that, the enemy doesn't see victory, but the enemy only knows defeat. In your precious and holy name, I pray, amen.
David Camp:Amen. Philip, I would say this today as we come to a close. In the journey that I've experienced, the choice that I made is I wanted my story to be a story that declared the redemptive beauty and nature of the God that we know and love. And that is so that what anyone would see in my story is the reality of Jesus, His sacrifice, His love, and that any and all of us can be in a relationship with Him, and in that, we can know fullness of life.
Declaring Redemption as a Believer's Story
Philip:Absolutely. Wow. I felt God in this thing today. God is about to do something in your life. I've taken the back end off the program so we can get a couple more minutes. I really sense this, that God is speaking to your heart. You're going through the darkest night of your life. And you've doubted your own salvation. You've doubted God. Does God love me? Does God care about me? Let me tell you, He cares enough about you to get a Scotsman — and I don't know where David comes from, he talks funny — but He's got us together on a TV program to come into your life and your world today.
Philip:I don't normally say this, but I want you to get in contact. Just go onto the page if you're watching on social media. I do know this will go onto TV as well, but write me or contact me and say, "God, use this program and this testimony from David Camp to transform my life and give me hope." Because it's not over.
Philip:My mom is great. My mom is 97 years of age, lives in Scotland. I spend at least an hour talking to her every day, and she'll say to you, "Where there's life, there's hope." And there is life in your circumstance. If you want to get in contact with David, if you'd like to go and be a part of a church that's moving and has come through sorrow, is now in victory, it's West Cobb Church in Marietta, Georgia. If you're anywhere in the area, I urge you to go and be a part with him and them. And we're just looking forward to going there ourselves one day pretty soon.
Philip:And David, thank you so much for being with us today. We appreciate you so much. Thank you for watching. Feel honored. Thank you for watching "Daily Faith." Be a part of the miracle, because God is not done with you yet. We love you. Thank you. Bye-bye.
Common questions
What happened to David Camp's wife, and how did it affect his new church?
David's wife Angela died suddenly in a drowning accident at home in 2022 — just three months after he and Angela had accepted the call to pastor West Cobb Church together. That meant his congregation was grieving the loss of their new first lady at the same time David and his two daughters were processing their own trauma.
How much has West Cobb Church grown since David Camp became pastor?
When David's first Sunday as pastor was in June 2022, the church had about 180 people. By April 2025 they were averaging nearly 450 in attendance each week. David sees the numbers not as an end in themselves, but as an indication of real life change happening in the community.
Did David Camp face any other major losses around the same time he lost his wife?
Yes — David also runs a software company in the real estate and mortgage industry, and about three months after Angela's death the mortgage market collapsed, wiping out roughly 75% of his customer base. He describes it as personal loss and financial loss hitting simultaneously, which deepened his understanding of how present and powerful God is in the middle of tragedy.
How did David Camp find love again after losing Angela, and how did his daughters respond?
God brought a widow named Beverly into David's life, and the two walked their grief journeys together before marrying. Philip emphasized that David's daughters were fully on board — they were, in his words, 'as much a part of driving this new relationship together,' which David confirmed as a key part of the redemptive story.
What does David Camp say he learned about leadership through all this suffering?
David says grief forced him to lead from a place of weakness rather than strength, and that experience reshaped him as a leader. He believes that if a leader is willing to yield and submit to whatever God desires through those hard moments, God uses the suffering to make them more effective — and he came out of it knowing the power, presence, and faithfulness of God in a way he never had before.
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