'The Gig of a Lifetime'

Dordt College junior Vero Visser spent last semester looking for internship possibilities in the field of digital media production.

Her search led to an internship for this summer with an organization that she initially thought was helping to put on a small-scale, local, Olympics-type event in London, England.

Not really a devoted Olympics fan, she didn’t realize that she had landed the gig of a lifetime.

“I didn’t know that it was for the London Olympics. I knew that it was in London, but I thought that it was similar to something like the Sioux Center Olympics or something,” said Visser. Dordt College is in Sioux Center, Iowa.

Visser will be joining the Christian ministry One Sheep, an organization that takes its name from the biblical parable of the lost sheep. Set for London in July and August, the Olympics will provide a wide audience for their outreach.

Now that she’s going to the international event, she says she is doing her homework and will know everything about the Olympics by the time she arrives in London.

“We are going to be conducting interviews with different people, producing video content, a daily blog, and collecting stories to share Christ with the world,” said Visser.

Theinternship will allow her to explore the kind of work she hopes to pursue after college. Visser, a native of Paraguay, is especially interested in using media to build relationships and understanding between cultures.

“I want to be able to go to different places and countries … and get to know people from different cultures. And I want to be able to use the camera to tell their stories in the best way that I can … I want to be able to use media to reach others for Christ, and to glorify him.”

In addition to her classes at Dordt, Visser has been involved with Prairie Grass Productions, Dordt College’s production company, and spent last Christmas break in Mexico filming and interviewing people for a documentary film for Christian Reformed World Missions.