October 6, 2025

“God never wastes a moment”: Blake’s Story

Blake joins the Austin MVMT team for an outreach.

In 2024, Austin MVMT leader Josiah and a small group of friends—some family included—were hitting the party streets of downtown Austin every Friday night. Their mission was simple: pray with people, start real conversations, and share the radical love of Jesus in places where few expect to find Him.

Fast forward to May 2025. The Austin MVMT team showed up at KhushFest, a vibrant festival rooted in Hindu culture, to share the Gospel with those who had never truly heard it before. One of the team members invited a new friend named Blake to tag along.

Blake is a musician who goes by the name Beastland. He had only recently come to know Jesus—just two months earlier—and was eager to learn how to share his faith. As a creative, Blake brought his camera with him to capture moments from the outreach.

As the day unfolded, Josiah noticed how engaged Blake was. He was all ears during every Gospel conversation and full of thoughtful questions. He wasn’t just filming—he was learning, absorbing, and searching for the words to articulate the transformation he was experiencing.

Later that evening, they sat down to review the footage. But something was off—all the videos had been mysteriously deleted.

Digging through the camera’s deleted folder, they managed to recover just one clip.

It was a video of Josiah’s parents, on the streets of downtown Austin praying for a young man. It was Blake.

Filmed a year earlier, before he knew Jesus, before they’d ever met, before any of them had a clue what God was orchestrating.

“I met Josiah’s parents,” Blake said. “It was a God moment. There’s only one way I can explain how all this unfolded: it was just God working through his parents, working through him. It gave me courage to see that this is bigger than me. It’s bigger than him. It’s bigger than all of us.”

Today, Blake is actively reaching others with the same hope that changed his life. And God continues to move in him, shaping him not just as an artist, but as a man on mission.

“It’s a miracle, the transformation that I’m feeling,” he said. “Not only for me, but for others. I want my life centered around Jesus Christ.”

This is the heart of Steiger: going to the places Jesus is least expected, and watching Him show up in ways only He can. Even when it feels like something’s been lost, He’s already writing a better story.

God never wastes a moment.