A man fled to America from Lebanon where he had fought for three years. He had been taught that man is basically good but what he saw caused him to question this. “I saw the true heart of men & I was changed by the horrors of it”

In America he began to study the Bible in an attempt to disprove the Bible. “As I began to examine the scriptures, I came across some revolutionary teachings. He learned about A God who is called Father and who loved mankind so much, even after it had rebelled against him  , he made a way that we could come before him and call him Abba”

He gave his life to Christ.

GO Apr-June  2015

Dawit was a murderer and a thief. He was feared and hated around his town in rural Ethiopia. He terrorised woman , raped robbed & killed.

He received a double life sentence when caught and was imprisoned.

One day during recess hour he started to listen to an audio Bible and a voice that spoke about a God that died for our sins. He listened closely. He could hear three voices. One was Jesus and the other two were sinners. All were being crucified.

One sinner said they were being killed for a reason, but Jesus did not deserve his fate.

He started thinking and as he listened more he learned about Gods unfailing love for all humanity.

That night he could not sleep. The message would not go away. Even though rejected by society, he realised that Jesus Christ accepted & loved him no matter what.

As he listened more he  discovered  Jesus as he personal Lord & Saviour.

Dawit is still in prison but at age 46yrs he operates as the prison pastor and is trusted by the wardens.

Gods word can reach even the darkest places

(rom Bible Society March 2015)

Her recent blog for the Daily Beast broke the news: “Why I’m Coming Out as a Christian.”  Ana is emphatic: “To be clear, I don’t just believe in God.  I am a Christian.”  She adds that “decades of mass culture New Ageism has fluffed up ‘belief in God’ into a spiritual buffet, a holy catch-all for those who want to cover all the numbers. . . . Me, I’m going all in with Jesus.”

“Because before I found God, I had an unconsciously manufactured higher power: I spent a lifetime trying to earn extra credit from some imaginary teacher, grade-grubbing under the delusion that my continued mistakes—missed assignments, cheating, other nameless sins—were constantly held against me.”

Ana (Washington)

I then started reading the Bible and discovered how this God was so amazingly patient and kind towards people who kept doubting and insulting all his care and love for them. I realised that I was just like those people- that I had lived rejecting Christ, the living God, who longed for me to come to him.

So I accepted Jesus as my Lord and asked his Spirit to help me change and be like him.

Fouad  (born in Iraq, son of Arab Communist father)

GO magazine Jan-mar 2015

(Interserve)

One colonel from the Peshmerga, the Kurdish forced battling ISIS in Iraq, approached members of an indigenous Iraqi ministry team to ask them why they were there. He was curious about what motivated the group, putting their lives at risk to supply displaced people with food , clothing, beds medicine & Bibles.

Team members explained that they were demonstrating Christ’s love in  a tangible way, bringing love & peace & goodness to people in need.

A long conversation began about Christ and as a result the colonel bowed & prayed, asking Christ into his life.

He said, ” Today I am the happiest person-I’ve had the privilege of making this decision.

GO Magazine Jan-Mar 2015

(Interserve)

I was about ready to leave the sanctuary of a church in Vancouver, Canada, when they challenged us non-believers to accept Jesus. Right before I put my hand on the door handle, to my surprise, an audible voice called me loudly, “Philip, if you are not saved today, you will never be saved!” I was shocked and I lifted my hand and ran to the front like a little child. That was God’s voice for sure! My spiritual journey began right after that altar call in 1992 when I was 18 years and it has affected me until today.

David found faith when he was 40 years old. Although he and his two brothers had been brought up largely without religion in a family of Lithuanian Jewish heritage, David says he had been “searching for something” all his life.

“I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation,” explains David. He says he then just “forgot about it” until he was making the movie Harry And The Hendersons in the US in 1986.

In the unlikely setting of a bathtub in a hotel room in Seattle, Washington, David’s search for religion began anew.

“I was in the bath, thinking about my late grandfather, with whom I had an extraordinarily close relationship,” says David, referring to his maternal grandfather, famous Fleet Street photographer Jimmy Jarche, who died in 1965 when David was 18.

“I always felt that he was with me as my spiritual guide. I felt him sitting on my shoulder. Then I thought to myself, ‘Why do I believe that and not believe in life after death?’ That got me thinking about the most famous person who they say had a life after death, Jesus.”

It led David to the New Testament of the Bible, and to Paul.

“I chose it because I knew that somebody called Paul actually existed, I knew that he wrote letters, and that they are there for everyone to see,” he added.

David read Paul’s epistle, which says that salvation is offered through faith in Jesus Christ, and had a “road to Damascus” moment when Paul’s words chimed with him.

“By the end of the letter, certainly by the end of the book, I was reading about a way of being and a way of life that I had been looking for all those years,” explains David.

Saint Paul made it clear that faith is no easy state to obtain. “When I read his letters, I saw that we both struggle with faith – it’s not an easy road no matter what religion you are,” he adds.

David joined the Church of England, but attends Christian churches of all denominations, depending on his location. He didn’t get confirmed in the church, though, until three years ago.

“Although I’m a very emotional man, I just can’t have blind faith, I have to find out for myself,” explains David. “It took me that long to say, ‘I fully commit’.”

C. S. Lewis left his childhood Christian faith to spend years as a determined atheist. After finally admitting God existed, Lewis gave in and knelt in prayer to become what he described later as “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”

Lewis’s long journey away from, and back to, faith began with his mother’s death from cancer when he was a boy. Disillusioned that God had not healed his mother, Lewis set out on a path toward full-bodied rationalism and atheism.

The road back to faith was cluttered with obstacles Lewis once thought impossible to overcome. His conversion to a robust Christianity required years of intellectual struggle and came only after being convinced that faith was reasonable.

Nick spoke yesterday in Dallas at the Council for Life’s annual Celebrating Life Luncheon. His testimony was remarkable: “As a child I never thought I’d be any sort of communicator of hope, because I did not have any hope.  I don’t remember the last time I prayed for a miracle to have limbs, because I know I don’t need limbs, I need peace.  I don’t need limbs, I need purpose.  I don’t need limbs, I need Jesus. And when you have Jesus you have everything you need, because that is the only source of hope.  If you have hope you have everything and Jesus is the hope.”

“the power of the Holy Spirit to flow and bring healing is something which transformed lives of Gambians as well as our own. The trip was like being part of the Acts of the Apostles”

H Melville (Barnstaple , Devon) after a mission trip to Gambia Jan 2014