“I prayed and said, ‘Lord, please fast-forward my life and put me deliberately in the place where You want me to be at this stage in my life.’
“Things started changing. My co-workers at the TV station gave me $150 toward my airline ticket. My sister, who lived in Virginia, offered to let me stay with her. A friend suggested I call the job center on USC’s campus and the woman I spoke to gave me the name of the person in charge of the conference. She said, ‘Give her my name and tell her I want to know if she can help you.’ I was allowed to attend free in return for volunteering.”
‘The Perfect Job’
The first day at the conference, Adrienne stopped at one of the media booths with a video résumé. The station representatives liked Adrienne, but weren’t impressed with her reel.
“Keep practicing,” they said.
Walking down the job-fair corridor, Adrienne decided not to show the video again. She prayed, "Let them love my personality.”
Just then a tall gentleman exclaimed, “Hey, do you want a job?”
“What have you got?” Adrienne asked.
“First, tell us what you want,” replied the man walking with him.
Adrienne boldly shared her vision for what she ultimately wanted to do, holding nothing back. They looked stunned for a moment and then smiled.
“Here are all the cities across the country where we have news stations. Pick one.”
“Wait a minute!” one of the men said a few minutes later. “Does your mother still live in Sacramento?”
“Yes.”
“We have the perfect job for you. It’s with KCRA in Sacramento.”
For a moment, Adrienne froze. She went back in time to that awkward girl of 12 watching the evening news. “I’ll never do the news,” she had said, “but if I did, I’d work for them.” That station had been KCRA in Sacramento.
The men who offered Adrienne the job were the senior vice president and vice president of news for the Hearst Corporation. They would later take credit for discovering her.
“Within three months of praying and asking God to fast-forward me into His perfect will, I was living in Sacramento and working for KCRA,” Adrienne remembers. She went from never having a news job to working in the 20th largest TV market in the country.
“It was a phenomenal place to start.”
Faith and Obedience
“I knew it was important to get planted in a good local church. I didn’t want to church hop or take a long time to figure out where I was supposed to go. I prayed to be led to the right place. A friend invited me to Family Community Church under Pastor Bill Krause. He and his wife are Partners with Kenneth Copeland Ministries and they taught us the principles they had learned—among them how to hear God’s voice and how the words we speak have power. I learned that when we agree with the Word of God, no matter what people or our circumstances say, God can do the impossible.
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