As Bible League’s Director of Global Partnership Operations, Lucas has traveled all over the world to see how the Holy Spirit moves!

In eight years with us, he remembers a story from one of his very first ministry trips.

One of my first trips for Bible League International was to Peru in 2017. There, we traveled to an area on the outskirts of Lima, the country’s capital. It was very impoverished, and many people had left their homes to try and make a better living. We were serving an under-resourced church that used to be a drug house. While there, we met a lady called Flor. Someone from the church studied the Gospel of John with her on a weekly basis, and she became a Christian. She had been homeless, abused, and under the addiction of drugs. Flor and her husband, who had seven children together, were very poor and used to fight a lot. She said that she wanted to commit suicide, but God did not allow that to happen and showed Himself to her through His Word. Both of their lives changed completely!

It’s encounters like this that have encouraged Lucas in his faith.

What brings me joy is connecting often with our beloved regional directors from various parts of the world and their partners. It’s a blessing to understand how God is working in so many contexts!

Another context where he sees the Spirit move is in his home church.

My wife and I teach nine- and ten-year-old kids in our local church on Sundays, and we lead a Bible study group in our house too!

A verse that has inspired me in faith and ministry is from the story in Numbers 21:4-9.

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived. Numbers 21:9 ERV

I believe it shows how the Lord is a father concerned with helping us grow and learn. He makes us braver.