“That was a lightbulb going off in my head,” says Mosley, who majored in social work. “I never heard that growing up in church – and I’d been a Christian for ten years at that point. I had always understood that you go because of the need of the people.”

Searching Scripture, Mosley began to see what the speaker had shared was consistently evident throughout the Bible and felt tremendously convicted to respond – she just didn’t know how.

Working with Union’s campus ministry director at the time, she was able to find a project in China with two other students and spent the whole summer there. Mosley describes the experience as “perfect.”

“After China, God really opened my eyes to the rest of the world,” says Mosley. “We saw incredible things happen in this communist country. Seeing students come to know the Lord in a place where they would have to deal with things we would never imagine was a very powerful lesson.”

Feeling the call of God to go into a journeyman or international service core position after she graduated, Mosley applied to the International Mission Board, hoping to be assigned back to China. Wherever she went, there was one area of the world she did not want to go.

“I had always been fearful of Muslims,” admits Mosley. “I told God, ‘I’ll go anywhere in the 10/40 window, but I don’t want to work with Muslims.’ When I said that out loud, of course, God said ‘that’s where I want you to go.’”

As a university student taking classes in a country in North Africa, Mosley soon discovered she loved learning Arabic, and found a love as well for the Muslim people. The 11 months she was there brought both challenges and spiritual growth and as the prayer advocacy coordinator for that area, she loved what she was doing.

It was through an instant message conversation with Todd Brady, Union’s minister to the university, when she learned that the student outreach director at that time had left.

“My immediate reaction was devastation because I realized how much we needed someone in that office helping students get to the field,” says Mosley. “Not a day went by that I couldn’t think of students at Union who could come and help us, and there was such a strong interest at that point of students wanting to come.”

Serious talks with Brady began over the possibility that Mosley might come and fill the position – something that seemed impossible since her commitment to the IMB still had more than 18 months left.

“I spent a lot of time in prayer over the next several days and began to really feel like I was being led to come back to Union,” recalls Mosley, who prayed mainly that everyone would be in agreement if it was what God wanted. “My supervisors at the IMB felt confirmation that this indeed was something I was supposed to do – they saw it as a bigger opportunity to send more people to the field.”

Finishing out the summer, Suzanne arrived back in the States in July, and started work in August.

“With Suzanne here, it certainly helps prepare students who go overseas,” says Brady. “We can’t send someone over there carelessly – the preparation and the training and logistics have got to be done right.

“I think so much of her job or what we do is transportation. If we can get the transportation worked out, you get the ground sowed for the transformation to happen,” says Brady.

Now in her second year at Union, married, and content in the knowledge that this is the place where God wants her, Mosley strategically plans the 12-15 trips each year that students will take, both at home and abroad.

“I’ve tried to take students out of the Bible Belt – one student who went to Boston said he felt like he was in a foreign mission field,” says Mosley. “And that’s what I want them to realize – that there’s a world outside of our country, and also in the States too, that needs God. And that He tells us to go.”