Fanny Crosby, the famous hymn writer considered it a blessing to be blind she was not born blind, but at the age of six weeks she had a minor cold in the eyes. The family physician was gone, and another man came and treated her with a mustard poultice on the eyes, permanently destroying her sight.

Instead of entering into litigation and a malpractice suit, as many would do today, her mother and grandmother (father died before her first birthday) chose instead to focus on teaching and helping Fanny to learn to know and love the Lord, so that she would have spiritual insight.

Later in life, Fanny wrote this poem:

The Conversion of Mary, and Her Earrings

[The following account is extracted from a description and defense of Methodist Revivals, in History of Wesleyan Methodism, by George Smith; London: Charles H. Kelly, Fifth Edition, n.d., Vol. II, pp. 624-626.]

      A strong, vigorous, and tolerably intelligent young woman was working at a mine in Cornwall. In company with many others, she was employed in breaking the copper ores with a hammer on an iron anvil. Mary—for that was her name—had heard of the revival in the neighbourhood, and turned all she had been told into ridicule, making herself and her companions exceedingly merry with the subject. She, however, had never attended any meeting, and consequently lacked the information necessary to give point and completeness to her profane jesting. This defect she resolved to remedy by going to the revival meeting in the evening, watching closely all that took place, and treasuring it up in her memory. She promised her companions to repeat all that was said, and mimic all the noises made, for their amusement the following day.

May I ask you a few Questions?

• Firstly: If good works can get you to heaven , then why did Jesus die?
• Secondly: If you are good enough to get to heaven because you where Born in A Christian Home and grew up a believer then why does the Bible say that all are born sinners?
• Thirdly: If you can get to heaven by saying a prayer without much els happening ,then why does the Bible say that the new Birth is a powerful hearts experience?
• Fourthly : If miracles or emotional experiences prove you know Jesus then why does the Bible say that the anti Christ can do miracles?
• Fifthly :What is the way to heaven?

A Gift In Prison

Are you a Christian?

Jan Harm - Witness

How I met the Lord Jesus (My witness that He lives)

Where do I come from?    
I was born in the First Military Hospital the year 1982. I was in Wonderboom primary school and afterwards went to HTS John Vorster. I ended my time at school at Capital College.  Then I went to CTI and started working in Rosslyn as a programmer.

Where did it all start?
When I was 13 years old I listened to a song of Brian Adams: Summer of ’69. I said to myself: “This is the life that I would like to live.”
I started smoking marijuana when I was 15½ and by the time I reached 16½ I was 100% into drugs. The grace of God was upon me and I did not totally wreck my life then. By the time I reached 18 I was tired of living and had done most things to be done. I was part of the gothic scene and hanged out at the old Zeppelins. The first club I went to was "The Doors" in the centre of Jo’burg (it was the time when it was still a metal club). When I was 18½ the grace of the Lord Jesus started working in my life. I went through a tough time and God used that to show me that He is out there.
So I started seeking God…