Science and Christianity do mix !
Stuart graduated from Manchester University in Physics, specialising in Nuclear Physics. He has since worked in the UK nuclear industry on the safety substantiation of nuclear plant, including Gas Cooled, High Temperature, Pressurised Water and Steam Generating Heavy Water Nuclear Reactor Systems. He has been the Technical Manager of a team of over 100 physicists and is currently the Corporate Radiological Safety Manager and Principal Radiation Protection Adviser for a leading UK nuclear consultancy company.
Frank is a workaholic scientist, who despite spending many years around the theological world did not believe in the possibility of having a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Frank raised his daughter from an early age on his own. He has been suicidal and survived three near death experiences.
Gary tells of restored hope
Gary Flynn, a London business man who 'lost everything' after his health and business collapsed, but whose life was transformed when he found faith in Jesus Christ, recently shared his story of healing and renewed hope at an FGB dinner.
Gary admits he has been “to hell and back”, but today he is a happy man – very different from his early years when he began drinking at 13 after his dad, Jimmy, was killed by a stray bullet on an Army firing range.
I am an only child, born in Hull in 1962. My life must have seemed very pleasant as my dad was a builder and so we had an affluent lifestyle. Unfortunately, all was not as it seemed as my parents were not well suited and from an early age I remember vicious arguments and violence from both parents on each other. Gradually their marriage deteriorated so that when I reached about the age of 8, my dad stopped talking to my mum. As a result, she would often take it out on me with physical abuse.
About twenty years ago whilst dying of malaria I called upon the name of the Lord Jesus! I was saved and healed and led to America and invited to an FGBMFI Convention, where I was set free and was baptised in the Holy Spirit. I was given encouragement by God that I had been equipped with some supernatural giftings! I felt claws like talons released from my heart and for the first time I felt really free! Fear and unforgiveness dealt with and covered in a sweet perfume I remember a voice saying well then? Well then? I then said "I love you Father!" It was the first time in my life I let anyone into that place that no one could touch. My life had been a mess and rejection and loss and devastion had caused me to be a hard man who never trusted anyone.
I am married with three children and was married in ’73. My wife and I were born in ’50. Keith was born ’75 Shirley in ’82 and Kurt in ’84. We are of Maltese nationality. We met the Lord Jesus Christ in Spring of ’85.
25 years: a life in perspective
It has been 25 years since I asked
I was born in the Lancashire town of Bolton on the 16th August 1951. My mother was a working girl and had hardly any time for me. One day, she was so mad, she wrapped me in a blanket and dumped me in a bin behind the ABC cinema. There, a man who had just committed a robbery heard me as he ran from the police. He stopped, picked me out of the bin and waited for the police to catch up with him so that he could hand me over. I hear that he got a shortened prison sentence for doing the right thing.
I was born in 1968 in Liverpool, having a rough early life. Expelled from school at 14, I started to earn a living on an ice-cream van and then on Liverpool market stalls. My fascination with music caused me to launch out as a 'tribute artist' performing Phil Collins songs. I always wanted to sing, and got the opportunity on Stars In Their Eyes performing as Phil Collins. I sang in front of Phil, and was endorsed by him as his number one tribute in the world. But it seemed, even though I had this affirmation and a bit of publicity, I was never happy with my life.