“People watch the videos and then share them with their friends, and so a lot of people who have never been to church—or would never go to church—get to see these videos,” he said. “It’s created conversations between believers and their non-believing friends about spiritual topics.”

Gill has watched as God has gradually given him a global platform, taking him and his wife, Auny, to places like Egypt, Greece, Australia, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, among others. With his nonprofit organization, Caliber Outreach, Gill has performed for Muslim refugees as well as for prisoners and the impoverished in Nicaragua.

Fresh in his mind was a recent trip to a Nicaraguan prison, which had a large number of convicted murderers. It was a dark place, he said–both spiritually and literally–as his skeptical, stone-faced audience sat silently, arms crossed. Gill scrambled to set up his show quickly.

“After one trick, immediately the atmosphere changed,” he said. “They were smiling and laughing–maybe for the first time in years. These were people at the bottom of their lives in the worst conditions possible, and the place was roaring with laughter.”

That laughter, he said, turned to tears as Gill shared a message of hope, forgiveness and grace.

“I saw these big, grown men start to cry, and they wanted to follow Jesus,” he said.

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