Unusual tasks help men clarify vocation during TV series' filming

Published: 2006-03-31

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- When the production team for the A&E cable series "God or the Girl" devised a financial budget for filming, they took into account Joe Adair's planned trip to Germany for World Youth Day -- and to visit a girl for whom he thought he might have romantic feelings. They also needed to accommodate tasks that two of the other three men profiled in the series had to pursue: Dan DeMatte was asked by his spiritual adviser, a Dominican priest, to make a cross and to carry it 22 miles between Ohio towns; and Steve Horvath was asked by his campus missionary supervisor to go on a mission trip to Guatemala. Adair also took it upon himself to made a pilgrimage between Cleveland and a retreat house in Niagara Falls, Ontario, with no money in his pocket and depending entirely on the kindness of strangers. How these tasks affected the young men who carried them out is chronicled in "God or the Girl," which premieres on Easter, April 16.

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