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heard, the more he wanted to hear. In 1983, Rick started dating Nettie Gonzales. The following year, Nettie and her parents invited Rick to attend the West Coast Believers' Convention with them in Anaheim, Calif. Sitting in the huge auditorium, he heard Kenneth Copeland speak. I know that voice! Rick thought. I've been listening to him for years! What he's preaching, I want. Then Rick heard the voice of the Lord: Someday you will work with him. Rick clung to that word, believing it. When Rick married Nettie, he attended her church—and began learning about faith. Each year, they attended the West Coast Believers' Convention. Rick and Nettie soon began reading Kenneth Copeland Ministries' monthly magazine, Believer's Voice of Victory, and listening to his recorded teachings on faith. Rick soon realized there was a double call on his life: One was to preach the gospel; the other was to make movies in Hollywood. How those two callings would mesh, he had no idea. In 1990, God began opening doors for Rick to work in Hollywood. He started as an extra, working on movie sets. Then, he worked his way up to set coordinator. He became a double for Pacino in the movies Heat and The Insider. He worked in Hollywood for 10 years, learning to make movies. Following the Leading In 2002, the Lord spoke to Rick again: I want you to go full time in ministry. I want you to travel, doing outdoor crusades and winning the lost. Tell them that I love them and that I gave My Son, Jesus, for them. Then, like adding a postscript, the Lord said one more thing: Someday I'll call you back, and you'll make movies for Me. "Obeying God, Nettie and I started Rally Ministry," Rick recalls. "We packed up our four children and a mobile stage, and traveled through America winning souls for Jesus. We did that for years. When I was young, the Lord said to me, Words from God will declare your future. We trusted that word and always let God's words direct our course. "In 2006, we bought a property in Ontario, Calif., for $170,000. It was half an acre and came with two houses and an office. By that time, our oldest son, Ricky, was married. The Lord told us to sow rent-free living into our family as seed. So, we let Ricky and his wife, Melissa, move into one house. Nettie, the three other children and I lived in the other. We used the office for Rally Ministry. The property had room for us to park our mobile stage and the semi that carried our equipment." That same year, Rick and Nettie were preaching a major crusade when the Lord told them to ask Jeremy Pearsons, grandson of Kenneth Copeland, to come help them preach. "I reached out to Jeremy, and he agreed to help," Rick recalls. "We preached the crusade and thousands of people came. The next year, in 2007, Jeremy called and told me about a youth ministry KCM was developing called 14forty. He said they would be holding meetings for the youth during the West Coast and Southwest Believers' Conventions and asked if I would be one of the speakers. "In 2008, we did the 14forty meetings again, this time in Long Beach, Calif. After the meetings ended, Jeremy asked, 'Rick, does my grandfather know about you? Does he know what you're doing for the Kingdom?' "I don't know," Rick answered. "I've never met Brother Copeland, but I sure enjoy his preaching." "This afternoon, I'd like to introduce you to someone," Jeremy said. Later that day, at the convention center in Long Beach, Rick met Kenneth Copeland. Making Movies The Lord had told Rick He wanted him to write and produce a movie based on the stories he had heard while holding crusades. "We wrote a script about a mob family that controlled crime in a city," Rick remembers. "In the script the main character, who is head of the family, finds Christ. Then he must deal with a son who wants to continue a life of crime. By 2009, we were casting the actors. In time, all the cast were chosen except the main character. We reached out to different Hollywood actors, but none were right for the part. "In early January of 2009, Nettie and I were 1 4 : B V O V SEPT READ THROUGH THE BIBLE Old Testament New Testament Fri 1 Job 11:1-13:19 Phil. 1 Sat 2 Job 13:20-15:35 Sun 3 Ps. 105; Prov. 22:1-16 Mon 4 Job 16-18 Phil. 2 Tue 5 Job 19-20 Phil. 3 Wed 6 Job 21-22 Phil. 4 Thu 7 Job 23-26 Col. 1 Fri 8 Job 27:1-29:6 Col. 2 Sat 9 Job 29:7-31:15 Sun 10 Ps. 106; Prov. 22:17-29 Mon 11 Job 31:16-33:18 Col. 3 Tue 12 Job 33:19-35:18 Col. 4 Wed 13 Job 36:1-38:11 1 Thess. 1 Thu 14 Job 38:12-39:30 1 Thess. 2 Fri 15 Job 40-42 1 Thess. 3 Sat 16 Eccl. 1-3 Sun 17 Ps. 107; Prov. 23:1-28 Mon 18 Eccl. 4:1-7:12 1 Thess. 4 Tue 19 Eccl. 7:13-10:7 1 Thess. 5 Wed 20 Eccl. 10:8- 2 Thess. 1 Songs 2:7 Thu 21 Songs 2:8-6:10 2 Thess. 2 Fri 22 Songs 6:11- 2 Thess. 3 Isa. 1:31 Sat 23 Isa. 2:1-5:7 Sun 24 Ps. 108-109; Prov. 23:29-24:22 Mon 25 Isa. 5:8-7:25 1 Tim. 1 Tue 26 Isa. 8:1-10:19 1 Tim. 2 Wed 27 Isa. 10:20-13:22 1 Tim. 3 Thu 28 Isa. 14-17 1 Tim. 4 Fri 29 Isa. 18:1-22:14 1 Tim. 5 Sat 30 Isa. 22:15-25:12

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