NEW LIFE
NOVEMBER 2012 Issue 225
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AMERICAN IDOL STAR MAKES IT CLEAR HE HAS FAITH
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I WAS IN SUCH A DARK PLACE THEN I FOUND THE LIGHT...
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BIKER BELIEVES GOD SAVED HIM
HISTORIC... Jeff Green
New mayor plans prayer after victory THE Christian Party in Wales is celebrating becoming the first faith based party to have a mayor elected. Councillor Jeff Green, 47, started his term in August in Llandrindod Wells. He told New Life: “I’ve been accepted by the people of the town which is fantastic. “I want to reintroduce biblical principles, like prayers before the town council meetings. I believe we have the right people in place so that this can happen.” Jeff, who also runs a guest house with his wife, Sue, doesn’t shy away from talking about his Christian beliefs.
Life kick-started as I escaped death plunge PLAN TO MOVE TO INDIA TO BECOME TEACHER
A BIKER whose brakes failed as he hurtled towards a massive drop believes God saved his life.
benefits “I’ll tell everyone that I’m a born again Christian,” he said. “It’s a major part of my identity. “I’ve seen the benefits of prayer in my own life and my business and I believe what the Bible says and know that it can work in this town. “When we exalt Christ, we will see miraculous changes that we cannot orchestrate ourselves. “It’s time that Christians raise their head in all spheres of public life and proclaim what we know to be truth so we can touch the lives of all those around us.”
HOW I COPED WITH DOUBLE TRAGEDY SEE PAGE 2
ESCAPED... Chris Hyde with his wife Kris
Chris Hyde’s journey to Christianity began while speeding down a US mountain on his motorbike. As Chris zoomed towards a huge drop, he discovered his brakes had failed and was ready to leap from his out-of-control bike. But he found he couldn’t let go and had a strange vision. He said: “I remembered the face of a guy we had met in Tahoe. It was just a flash of him, nothing more. “He was a local doctor and his parting words to us had been, ‘God go with you.’ “I was leaning the bike over attempting the corner but it was going too fast and was out of control.
BAPTISM... Chris is baptised in a river
Then the bike swung round, came up, slowed and ran impossibly straight into the waste ground and stopped upright without any slide or attempt to dig into the loose gravel, or any input from me.” Chris, 61, from Evenwood, County Durham, believes that
it was God that had saved him from certain death. “For me, everything changed,” he explained. “What happened was utterly impossible. The bike went in a direction that physics says is ● Continued on Page 3