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A New Testament sat in his welding workshop until a teenager finally read it
Agadez· 2000s
A New Testament left in Pierre's welding shop in Niger drew the teenager to read it. Years later in Agadez he found the church it described, and says he has never regretted following Jesus.
He was taught Christians do not pray. Then he watched his uncle pray before a meal
Lere· 1981
Charles Diarra was taught Christians do not pray, until he saw his uncle pray before a meal in Mali. Years later he prayed to find the truth, and in 1981 he gave his life to Jesus.
He found a Bible in a secondhand shop and thought he was the only Christian in Yemen
Yemen· 2000s
Mohammad found a Bible in a Yemeni secondhand shop and gave his life to Jesus, sure he was the only believer in the country. God proved otherwise and gathered a hidden house church around him.
After his daughter was killed, he prayed for a Bible no one could take from him
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan· 2020s
After his young daughter was killed, Rashid Kadirov, a Muslim in Central Asia, prayed for a Bible. A stolen New Testament and a JESUS Film later, he and his wife Aleka gave their lives to Jesus.
He survived the killing fields. Then he baptised the man who ran a death camp
Cambodia· 1980s-1990s
Christopher LaPel survived the Khmer Rouge killing fields and met Jesus in a refugee camp. He became a pastor and later baptised Comrade Duch, the man who ran the S-21 death camp.
His tough older brother went soft overnight. He had to know why
Ethiopia· 2010s
Yared Getahun watched his tough older brother turn humble and gentle after meeting Jesus in Ethiopia. He opened a Bible to understand it, and at sixteen he followed Christ too.
He fled the ruins of Homs. In a dream, Someone came to save him
Homs· 2015
Abu Radwan fled the ruins of Homs, Syria. Jesus came to him in a dream saying He had come to save, and the Muslim refugee was baptised in Beirut, even after his own tribe attacked him.
Locked in a cell a meter wide, he prayed one desperate sentence
Kurdistan· 2010s
Nihad, a Kurdish man from Iraq, was in a Syrian prison cell a meter wide when he prayed, Jesus, if You are real, help me. A figure in white walked in, and everything changed.
Police shot him mid-escape. In that second he remembered what his mother said
Rio de Janeiro· 2010s
Peter tried to steal a car in a Rio favela and was shot fleeing police. Bleeding out, he remembered his mother's words about God's forgiveness, repented, survived, and became a pastor.
Katie didn't know how to become a Christian. Then Jesus met her in a vision
Lincoln
Katie Ivings believed in God but didn't know how to become a Christian. Praying in her Lincoln room, she saw a vision of a door and met Jesus.
Alisa Latty-Alleyne: The End of Her Husband's Life Was the Beginning of Hers
Coventry· 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.
Calum Mackenzie: 22 Years of Trying Everything, Then One Desperate Prayer
United Kingdom· 2022
Calum Mackenzie, a pastor's son, abandoned his faith at university and spent 22 years chasing satisfaction through drink, drugs, career and travel. In 2022, at rock bottom and suicidal, one desperate prayer brought him back to Jesus. His wife followed weeks later, and his suicidal thoughts ended within months.