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TV and fame left David Harper empty. Watching his daughter healed led him to Jesus
United Kingdom
TV presenter David Harper spent 50 years a sceptic. Watching his daughter healed of depression through Jesus, he searched the evidence and found God.
Alisa Latty-Alleyne: The End of Her Husband's Life Was the Beginning of Hers
Coventryยท 2020
Alisa Latty-Alleyne was a six-figure tech executive when her husband Benny died suddenly at 30. Three years later, suicidal on her kitchen floor in Coventry, she surrendered to God around 2020. Baptised at Coventry Elim Church, she went on to join Christian ministry and is now the first female UK director of the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Colin Mason โ The Boy Told to End His Life, Now He Helps Others Heal
Londonยท Contemporary
Colin Mason survived abuse, domestic violence and racism, and was told at 13 that nobody wanted him. Years later he met God in a small house group, and forgiveness set him free to heal.
David Harper โ The BBC Presenter Who Investigated God and Found Him
North Yorkshire / Londonยท 2024
David Kingsley Harper, a BBC antiques expert known for Bargain Hunt and Flog It, was an agnostic until his daughter Hetti became severely depressed and struggled with self-harm for years. When Hetti became a born-again Christian and was dramatically transformed, David spent eleven months investigating the claims of Christianity โ and ended up on his knees accepting Jesus.
Rugby Player Paralysed in Scrum Collapse Found Purpose Coaching Wheelchair Rugby
Pontypriddยท 2021-10
A Welsh rugby player paralysed in a scrum collapse was furious at God until a persistent hospital chaplain broke through.
Simon Thomas: Peace Beyond Understanding
Norfolk / Londonยท 2024
Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas lost his wife Gemma to leukaemia four days after diagnosis. In the wreckage, he found a peace only God could explain.
Fiona Johnston: A Young Mother's Faith Through Stage 3 Cancer
Glasgowยท 2024
Fiona Johnston was 32, a specialist pharmacist in Glasgow with three children under six โ the youngest just five months old โ when she was diagnosed with a.
Susannah Wesley: Raising World-Changers in a Crowded Rectory
Epworthยท Early 1700s
Susannah Wesley raises ten surviving children through poverty, house fires, and an absent husband โ her disciplined kitchen-table education produces John...
He Was Muslim, I Was Christian, and God Was in It
Londonยท 2024
A Nigerian pastor's daughter and a devout Muslim man navigated faith differences, family rejection, and a year of honest prayer. Their interfaith marriage didn't produce a conversion story, but it revealed a God bigger than religious categories.
Mary Slessor: From a Scottish Jute Mill to Missionary in Nigeria
Dundeeยท 1870s
Mary Slessor was eleven years old, working twelve-hour shifts in a Scottish jute mill, when she overheard two older women talking about missionaries in...
A Morning Training Run That Became a Calling
Edinburghยท 1922
Before the famous Olympic refusal, Eric Liddell was on an ordinary morning training run through Edinburgh when he felt a sudden clarity โ that his ability...
A Mother Prayed 50 Miles Away โ Her Son Converted at That Exact Moment
Yorkshireยท 1849
In June 1849, Amelia Taylor locked herself away to pray for her son. At that exact moment 50 miles away, 17-year-old Hudson read a tract and surrendered...
