• Question 1: How does God show us the importance of work?
• Question 2: What work has God placed in your life right now? What talents or gifts are needed to fulfil it?
• Question 3: How should we treat our work, knowing it is a gift from God?
• Question 4: How has your view of work changed through today’s discussion?

Mikayla Sullivan is the 19-year-old CEO of Kinosol. Mikayla’s desire to tackle the problem of food waste came from her first-hand experience of visiting rural villages in Mexico. Since that experience, she has beendriven to turn her dream of providing sustainable solutions to people in need into a reality.

Along with her fellow college students, Clayton, Ella, and Elise, she invented a solar dehydrator that is now helping subsistence farmers around the world. Farmers in developing countries often have a difficult time keeping their crops fresh on their way to market. As a result, it is estimated that up to one-third of produce spoils before it can be eaten. Mikayla’s mission was and is to save that third for the sake of those who are hungry. She invented solar dehydrators to preserve produce.

Mikayla and her team can celebrate that their invention is making lives measurably better. They are now field-testing their solar dehydrators in Haiti, El Salvador, Thailand, and Uganda. The dehydrators are providing
food for hundreds of people by dehydrating fruits, vegetables, grains, and even insects with solar energy, which in turn reduces food waste. It’s a creative and innovative mission that is driven by compassion and a calling to care for God’s children.

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