NEW LIFE
SEPTEMBER 2012 Issue 223
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SMOKEY ROBINSON
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I only talk about God saved us drugs when I talk from gun terror against them now Wounded... Arturo Martinez speaks to the press
Hammer attack killer forgiven A MAN whose wife and daughter were beaten to death has forgiven their killer. Arturo Martinez was brutally attacked along with his wife Ignacia and their tenyear-old daughter Karla in their own home. They were beaten with a claw hammer when a man broke into their Los Angeles house earlier this year. Mr Martinez has now appeared in a press conference to talk about his ordeal, and left the audience shocked when he said he would allow the man suspected of the attack, 22-year-old Bryan Clay, to kiss him on the cheek. The devout Christian, who also has two boys aged nine and five who survived the ordeal, said: “As a believer in Christ, I know that God forgives all the sins of those who have faith in him. “In this, I am instructed to forgive first, knowing that God will forgive even murderers if there is true repentance. Bryan Clay will stand in judgment before him. “It is my prayer that my wife and daughter are in heaven waiting for me and my sons, for us to arrive to spend eternity with them. “I love my Ignacia. I love my Karla. I love my sons,” Martinez said at the press conference. “We all love Jesus. Through his strength, we will survive.”
Ignacia (left) and Karla Martinez
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KISSAGRAM SHOCKED CHURCH
I KISSED A PREACHER LIP SERVICE... Lynda Heron was a kissagram when she first went to church to spring a surprise on the minister. Now she’s the wife of a pastor
...and now I’m a pastor’s wife A PASTOR’S wife has revealed how her first experience of church was when she surprised the preacher in her job – as a kissagram! Blonde Lynda Heron walked on stage in suspenders and high heels before being ushered off by red-faced church members and being thrown outside. “People say to me, ‘You’re the one who kissed the preacher.’ I answer, ‘Yes, and I’m still kissing preachers today because now I’m married to one!’” she laughs. A young Lynda worked as a kissagram in the pubs and clubs in her hometown of Blackpool. One day the call came for her to go to a church.
Dressed for the job, she sneaked in through the back door and got ready to surprise her target who was preaching on stage. Then her moment came. “I smiled and had my bright red lipstick ready to give him a kiss,” she said. “As I got closer I whipped off my coat and stood there in my fishnet stockings, high heeled shoes and suspenders and I planted this big red one on his face.
horrified “He was horrified. It went pitch black and I was hustled to the back of the stage and out of the door.” Lynda, now 49, dusted herself off and put her bad experience of church to one side. Her career took off but her personal life was spiralling out of control. At just ● Continued on Page 3