40-year-old Nick Vujicic adopts and makes a movie about Hungary

Since the 2017 cover interview, the preacher's life has changed a lot: his twin daughters were born and he went through depression. "I'm at a different stage in my life now," says the 40-year-old Vujicic, who spoke about his new mission at a press conference before his talk.

"It is God's will that we adopt"

The motivational speaker and his wife have four children, two sons and twin daughters born in 2017. The couple recently decided to have a fifth child. "I suddenly had the idea of adoption. I felt like God was nudging me and it went on for two weeks every single day.

I've learned that when God is nudging you, you have to obey his will.

Before I told my wife, I was afraid of how she would react, since she does most of the child-rearing, but afterwards she told me that God had put the same thing on her heart, too."

There are currently half a million children in the United States waiting to be adopted or placed in foster care. Vujicic said that not everyone is called to adopt; they want to give direction to those who are also considering adoption and send a message to the church. "A hundred years ago in America, it was primarily the church that took care of orphaned children, then the government took over that task, and today it's a mess," he said, pointing to the problem.

Fighting depression

Nick Vujicic also spoke openly about the depression he went through a few years ago. "The year 2019 was very hard for me: a grenade was put  in our garden by an unknown person, then a lawsuit was filed against me, spreading the word that I was anti-LGBTQ, and then I was expelled from a bank." To help him process what happened, he sought the help of a counsellor. The conversations also brought up past memories, as he had been betrayed by several people he knew in recent years. He says men in crisis don't want to appear weak, so they are reluctant to ask for this kind of help. He was reluctant at first, but now he is grateful to have received counselling.

He feels that it has been healing to be able to say all the things that have been accumulating in him for the last twenty years.

After books and talks, he starts making films

Perhaps recent events have contributed to his desire to slow down, travel less, and spend more time with his children. "I want to set on a road when God calls me to go," explains the preacher, who has so far reached 750 million people with the Word of God and given 3,500 talks in nearly 80 countries. However, he is only cutting back on travel but not stopping work: he is starting to make documentaries with his production company. He wants to make films about people’s stories and the American foster care network, and he has plans for Hungary. "America has no idea how many [Ukrainian] refugees have people taken in into their homes in Hungary and Poland. I would like the world to know about this so that with this we can support these two countries," he said.

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Vujicic and his interpreter on the stage of the Papp László Budapest Sport Arena - Photo by András Tóth/Ez az a nap!

Nick Vujicic is also co-producing an animated film about the biblical David, which is being made by the creators of The Chosen series. He is also planning a new book, 12 Keys For a Full Life.

The Twelve Keys are faith, gratitude, humility, perseverance, perspective, vision, courage, discipline, community, patience, generosity, and our own legacy that we leave behind in the world.

In the e-book, he not only writes about the importance of these values, but also about the trials and tribulations of his past three years. They want to translate the book into 66 languages and make it available free of charge to those whose financial situation would not allow them to buy it.

He will come to Hungary every year

In recent years, he has become increasingly attached to Hungary, where he experiences something very different from America, where anti-Christianity is on the rise. Hungary, he says, is like David fighting Goliath, and he stands with us. "I feel God will use this country in a special way for his plans," he says.

Before his current appearance, Nick Vujicic last visited Hungary in 2019 but plans to visit every year from now on. In fact, he will be back this September, but not to give a talk: he wants to meet pastors to introduce them to his discipleship training program, whose methods they can then use in their work.

Launching a program for the conversion of Americans

In addition to these projects, evangelizing Americans became the preacher's main mission. The number of Christian churches in the United States is decreasing, and many are leaving their Christian communities. "We need to heal the hearts of American Christians," said Vujicic, who is also concerned about other pressing issues.

"Human trafficking is most prevalent in America, and has recently increased by 700 percent."

"Sex has become the driving force: never before has so much pornographic material been produced than by the current generation, and one in three girls under seventeen has suffered sexual abuse." He says the church is trying ineffectively to tackle the problems. He sees the solution in training Christian students and church members to learn how to talk about these sensitive issues – this is the goal he has set for his own program with which he wants to reach more and more people each year. It wants to reach one billion people with the Good News by 2028.