This morning (May 12th) was amazing.
I traveled out of the city to the HQ of Campus Crusade for Christ and met up with a guy called Mark Tjenagle. Mark is the Chief Finance Officer for CCC ... that means he controls a budget of about half a billion a year!!!
After a quick chat with him, Andy (a pastor from the Aloma church) and I went through the Jesus Video project tour. This is amazing. The Jesus video has been translated into 1027 different languages, but its not your usual badly lipped synced film. They record the dialogue using ordinary members of the community in their natural dialect. The recording is then shipped back to the US where the syllables are all matched up to the actors lips so that the finished film looks like Jesus is speaking Spanish or Mandarin or ... whatever! Its seriously cool!
After the tour, we met up with Mark again who took us "behind the scenes". We walked around the I.T. department (Jason, you'd be jealous man!). Then he took us to the executives suites. It was amazing to see photos of Bill and Vonette Bright (the founders of CCC) with a succession of past US presidents, and to see "keys to the city" hanging on the wall.
Bill died in 2003 but CCC has kept his office as it was ... and he even still has a secretary!
The most amazing thing was being shown into Bill's office. If you look at the pictures of the HQ above (and that's just one of the buildings!) you'd think his office would be palatial ... but it really wasn't. It was a small, corner office looking out on the back of the property.
On his desk was a small plaque that read "I am not a grasshopper". Its a reference from Numbers 14, when 10 Israelites went to explore the promised land. Only Joshua and Caleb returned with a positive report while the other 8 focused on the Nephillim (giants) saying we looked like grass hoppers even in our own eyes!
It was incredibly humbling to stand in the office of a man who had a vision from God that has literally touched the world.
And then ... right there in the office of Bill Bright ... the founder of CCC ... the guys prayed for me, for direction and clarity! How cool is that!?!?!?!?!?
I AM NOT A GRASS HOPPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5 comments:
Hi Lee,
I'm sitting in Gatwick on the way out to Albania, and came across your blog. I didn't even know you were out in Florida, till the other day! I've been reading your blog with great interest, and look forward to hearing more when you get home. Go for it bro!
Enjoy
Jamie Kidd
Hi Lee, Always good to get prayed for on your birthday!! I hope you had a good day and that Andy didn't embarass you too much!! I hope that your 33rd Or 34th year is going to be a special and fruitful one. Bless you x
Lee, I just got home from my Pentatuech exam and guess what the text was... Numbers 13!!! I couldn't stop smiling cos I kept imagining you shouting "I am not a grasshopper"!! I must've looked weird- but apart form that it went well- thanks for praying!
How was your day? x x
Hi there
Sounds like you're having a fantastic jam packed time!!! Any chance of fitting in another trip to Lakeland? There's some more mega stuff happening.See you soon
God bless
J & S
"uuuuppppddddddaaaaaaaaatttttttteeeeee yyyyyyyyyoooouuuuurrrrrrr bbbbbbbbllllllllllooooooooggggg"
signed,
your conscience
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