The Details

It’s hard to know where to start a story like this. Mostly because there really is no beginning. I believe that God prepares us for things long before we ever find out about it. Whether we see it or not, He is always working in our lives. And I know that God has been preparing me for what He has in store for a long time. And as we all know, there are always two sides to a story. And in this story, we have my side and we have Lucka’s side. I’ll start with my side, since I know it best.

On Thursday, January 19th, we had a meeting for Turbo 316 (the parallel campaign with Exit 316). During the meeting, we were talking about the need for many different videos. And the question was, who would be able to produce them? More accurately, the question was how it would be possible for me to produce them without knowing the language. So they asked me if I knew anyone at the church who might be able to come with me to be my translator. And I told them that I couldn’t help but think of Lucka.

See, Lucka has always been interested in video production. She works in communications at the church and has never had the opportunity to do very much with video production. Last Spring, she heard about Exit 316 and . . . well, she’ll be able to tell her story better than I could.

“My prayer was very simple and, I thought, naïve. I prayed to have a chance to take part in the project. I didn’t have much faith that it could really happen. It didn’t make any sense, I was a complete outsider, and it was just a desire of my heart. But a little seed of faith is enough, I guess.”

It seems to me that this has been a desire of Lucka’s heart for a while, and the seed that was planted now has the chance to be watered. I’m sure you can see why she seemed to be the perfect person to join us with this project.

Now like I mentioned earlier, every story has two sides. And while we were in our meeting talking about Lucka joining the team, she was at home receiving a gentle nudge from the Holy Spirit. She started feeling really complacent in her job. She wasn’t sure if she was in the right place, and didn’t know where God was leading her. So she sat and prayed about it for an hour that day. It’s like God was just preparing her heart for what was about to happen. The next morning she received a phone call from someone on the team asking her to join us. You can imagine her shock when she received that phone call.

Lucka and I, along with a guy named Petr, have now become the production team for Turbo 316. Our task will be to prepare the way for Exit 316 in local churches. We want to equip and train the young Christians to use Exit 316 as a tool for evangelism and discipleship. It is a huge task but a wonderful opportunity to win the young generation for Christ. And our prayer is that you would join us in praying for this project.