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Focolare Movement – I might have a vocation
Joan Duggan was co-founder of a very successful company, which she later sold. She then worked in the corporate world for a while, but eventually gave almost all of her money away and founded an EoC-minded tutoring startup in upstate New York, which she helped manage for over 2 decades. Joan describes how she came to decide to give a great deal of money from her previous business ventures to the Focolare movement. This also led her to realize that she had a vocation to be an entrepreneur and to follow God in a particular way.
- Joan gave a great deal of her own wealth to the Focolare movement because she felt a call from God to do so. Do you think this is crazy? Or might God actually ask us to give at times in a very particular way?
- Joan found that when she followed the call she felt she was getting, she actually learned a lot more about herself (her vocation, her call to be an entrepreneur, etc). How often do you think that we/people do not realize what we are supposed to actually do because we do not respond to promptings which come to our minds??
- What does this story show about using wealth for social or community good?
- What motivated the Joan to re-engage with business after promising not to?