I wasn’t raised in a “Christian household” and went to a public school. Bullied and interested in science, I found myself quickly to be quite the angsty atheist. I was an atheist for as long as I can remember. When in Year 7 (2017), the Gideons came to our school, I unwittingly took a New […]

Peter Maher Pastor of The Range Church in Montville, Queensland I grew up in a very dysfunctional family, and at the age of 10, I started using drugs and alcohol to escape from my life. By the age of 19, I was injecting myself with speed and heroin and was desperate. Someone gave me a […]

Pastor Pieter Henning Toowoomba Community Baptist Church I recall receiving a small New Testament when I commenced my secondary education in what was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) – I found solace in reading the Psalms when my parents experienced marital breakdown and the family became fragmented. That was all prior to me inviting Jesus into […]

Shireen M. I was raised in Saudi Arabia, where it is illegal to have a church or own a Bible. My family is Greek Orthodox so, at a few months of age, my parents took me to Syria to be baptized. I was fully immersed into the water three times at a convent. If you […]

Patrick was lying on the floor in a hotel room after his third suicide attempt when he met Jesus.

I never knew my father, but I knew I was angry with him.

I was all alone… and I was broken. My children were with relatives. And I had nothing… except a Gideons bible!