Can God Bring a Recovering Atheist Back to Thefulness of Catholic Truth?

In bringing along that individual person back from a position of atheism, can god bring them back in stages and say, i want you to get some experience and ducin ministry for me? Well, it's not clear to me that god couldn't have wasted tions a for a person on their personal journey the same way he had sort of prophetic way stations. He could be endorsing the posit s that lead to a particular way station without implying, you need to stay forever at this way station, and that is the fulness of my will. The latter would be untrue, and therefore is not something god could say. But god could say, because he knows a person, it will help