“I began feeling lost, hopeless, ashamed, I wanted to end it all”
After being abandoned in a supermarket as a new born baby, I was placed in several foster homes because no one had the capacity to care for me.
Anger
Thriving Against The Odds
“Doctors gave me 0-5 percent chance to live”
I weighed only a pound, doctors gave me 0-5 percent chance to live! But I defied their negative reports and lived here I am 22 years later thanks to my miracle working father. Continue reading
TESTIFIED ALLSTARS: Leah Charles-King
“I am not a victim of mental illness”
Conversation with God
“Stabbed 7 times! As I lay dying in the ambulance, i had a conversation with God”
Life or Death
“I suffered from rejection, I tried to please everyone”
Love beyond the wounds
“The truth of my past sexual abuse escaped my lips”
The year leading up to my eighteenth birthday was, to put it nicely, interesting. Between trying to finish school yet, miserably failing, a dysfunctional relationship, finally dealing with my father’s death after 12 years of burying the wounds, admitting to & trying to deal with the multiple sexual abuses that broke my childhood, plus other bumps and bruises along the way- I was lost. I came to Christ having previously been an atheist. I was still wounded by much, scarred by experiences I tried to forget, even after surrendering to Jesus.
Finding Family
‘I’m adopted, so being told i was infertile was tough’
It’s something I’m still dealing with, I won’t say getting through because there are still times when I feel discouraged. I’m dealing with the feelings that come with loneliness. I used to feel unworthy of human love.
Heart of Worship
“God changed my heart, He had a higher calling for my life”
When I look at the things God has done and what he has brought me through it usually brings me to tears. I am currently a Worship Leader at one of the biggest church’s in Europe. A dream job, dream career and dream lifestyle. 11-12 years ago I was homeless, in trouble with police, hanging with the wrong crowd selling and taking drugs, getting drunk every other weekend – the list is endless.
Anger breeds more anger
“I left that situation in tears because I was in a rage”
Fights and troubles – some we win and some we lose, but what happens when we don’t have the opportunity to find out if we won? My name is Emmanuel and this is my testimony.
