Embracing Your Call with Action

Troy introduces the COPO framework as a tool to manage and direct your passion toward effective urban ministry. This model helps you align your Calling, Occupation, Passion, and Opportunities, ensuring that your ministry efforts are sustainable and impactful.

Understanding COPO

• Calling: Your unique divine assignment, characterized by a deep sense of purpose to serve in urban contexts.
• Occupation: Your job or career, which may or may not be directly related to your calling. It's essential to see your occupation as a means to support and possibly intersect with your ministry.
• Passion: The driving force that motivates you to act. It's the energy behind your calling that pushes you to engage deeply with urban ministry.
• Opportunity: The openings and possibilities for you to live out your calling and passion within the context of urban ministry. These are the practical avenues through which you can serve.

Living Out Your Calling Through COPO

• Integrate Your Life's Work: Look for ways to weave together your calling, occupation, and passion in a manner that opens up opportunities for ministry. This integration ensures that your ministry is not just a separate endeavor but a holistic part of your life.
• Leverage Your Occupation: Use your professional skills and resources to support your calling, whether through financial means, networking, or direct application of your vocational skills to ministry needs.
• Pursue Your Passion with Prudence: Let your passion fuel your ministry, but temper it with strategic planning and alignment with your calling and opportunities. This balance will ensure that your efforts are both passionate and practical.