The Well | 2019 Archives

Ellie (USA)

Meet Ellie

Singer and actress Ellie Ellsworth tells her story of being trapped in a life of promiscuity until she professed her belief in Jesus. Jesus set her free from her addiction to sex.

Ellie didn’t hear the gospel growing up. She talks about how she got into her first sexual relationship before marriage. She got married and ended up having an affair. Ellie continued down a path of promiscuity and adultery following her second marriage. She tried many means of help to overcome this addiction to sex.

Someone she dated invited her to a gospel-preaching church. She attended there for a couple of years. A lady challenged Ellie on what she believed – Ellie said she believed Jesus died for her sins.

Ellie emotionally describes the radical change Jesus brought about in her life just months after professing her belief in Him. She was set free from her need for men. Ellie reads some of John chp 4 about the Samaritan woman and explains how Jesus has used that story to reach her heart.

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Ellie’s story was produced by Redeemer Churches and Ministries, New York, USA.

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Tags: Affair, Affair - multiple, Anxiety - money, Careers - acting, Careers - music, Feeling unloved, No money, Self-worth, Sex addiction, Sexual life - outside marriage, Sexual life - promiscuity, Sin – trapped by it

December 3, 2019 0

Joseph (USA)

Meet Joseph

Joseph tells his story of growing up as a Mormon and priding himself on his religious deeds, but the Bible showed him he needed Jesus’ righteousness, freely available to him by believing in Jesus’ substitutionary death.

Joseph grew up in a Mormon home and took his religion very seriously. A former Mormon challenged Joseph while he was on missions to start over with the Bible and read it like a child.

Joseph shares how God opened his eyes while he read through the Bible. He came to understand that no-one can come to God and be saved by their religious deeds. Joseph repented of his self-righteousness and works, and trusted solely in God’s grace and Jesus’ death on the cross to pay the price for his sins.

Since becoming a Christian, Joseph has experienced alienation from his family who are still practicing Mormons. Nevertheless is passionate about helping people caught in religious systems understand the truth of the gospel, the depths of God’s love and the personal relationship on offer with Jesus Christ.

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Joseph’s story was produced by Adam’s Road Ministries, Winter Garden, Florida, USA.

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Tags: God's grace, God's love, Ministry life - music, Mormonism, My Christian life - adversity from family, Pride, Self-righteousness, The Bible – curiosity, The Gospel – confusion, Works-based religion

November 12, 2019 0

Heath (USA)

Meet Heath

Heath tells his story of finding forgiveness through Jesus Christ towards his mother who viciously abused him as a kid.

Heath had a very traumatic and violent childhood at the hands of his alcoholic mother. He suffered severe physical, emotional and mental abuse. He thought his mother would kill him. She also hatefully revealed to him that the man he thought was his father (who he loved dearly) was not his father. Heath was traumatized by being taken away from him.

As a teenager, Heath heard the gospel and received Jesus as his Lord and Savior. In time, Jesus showed Heath that he needed to let go of his anger towards his mother and forgive her. Jesus healed Heath’s heart. He spent a decade visiting his mother and telling her the gospel. He got to witness her place her faith in Jesus also.

God also moved in Heath’s heart to find his biological father, so he could share the gospel with him. Heath found him and visited the man. He discovered that his biological father had become a Christian a long time ago and wanted a relationship with him but didn’t know how.

Heath says his story is not about hatred and abuse, but really about the love and grace of Jesus Christ.

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This story was produced by the Association of Certified Biblical Counsellors (ACBC), Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

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Tags: Childhood - from a violent home, Childhood - from an alcoholic home, Childhood - neglected, Custody, Emotional pain, Father, Fear, Hatred, Illegal gun use, Mother - abusive, Mother - forgiving her, Mother - rejection, Verbal abuse

November 6, 2019 0

Joni (USA)

Meet Joni

Joni talks about life with Jesus after a freak accident that left her quadriplegic.

Joni was a very athletic kid. She heard the gospel as a girl, and knew she couldn’t make it to heaven by her own efforts. So she received Jesus as her Lord and Savior.

Before going off to college, Joni prayed for God to help her live a life pleasing to Him. Soon after, she was involved in a horrendous diving accident. Her sister saved her life, but Joni’s spinal cord was snapped. Joni became quadriplegic.

Joni cried out to God in confusion and pain, asking Him why He had allowed the injury to happen. Through scripture, God gave Joni a new way of looking at her accident, and she realized that God may allow things to happen to her body, but that He would never harm her soul.

Joni describes her minute-to-minute dependence on God in order to live life in a quadraplegic body. She says there is nothing like the intimate union she has with Jesus: the “hell” of her suffering pales in comparison to the ecstasy of her relationship with Jesus.

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This story was produced by Joni and Friends, Agoura Hills, California, USA.

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Tags: Accident - diving, Accident - paralyzed, Cancer - breast, Depression, Disability - quadriplegic, God - asking God why, God - feeling discouraged by God, Jesus – a relationship with Him, Jesus – relying on Him, Joy, My Christian life - dullness, Pain - chronic, Success - sports, The gospel (God's message to the world)

November 6, 2019 0

Lee Yih (USA)

Meet Lee Yih

Lee Yih shares that he was born as a result of date rape. He struggled with identity and belonging, growing up in Iowa and also in Taiwan. He always wanted to fit in. He heard about Jesus as a teenager, but later went on to ridicule Jewish college friends who became Christians.

While in the military, stationed in Germany, Lee Yih talks about feeling lost without any sense of direction and meaning. A Christian couple welcomed Lee Yih and his wife. He learned it was possible to have a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Lee Yih describes feeling overwhelmed by God’s love, humbling himself and calling out to God to receive Christ. He describes how Jesus turned his life around and has provided the ultimate sense of joy and fulfillment.

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This story was produced by I Am Second, Franklin, Tennessee, USA.

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Tags: Approval from others, Careers - army, Childhood - emmigration, Childhood - raised by a single parent, Christians - good examples, Christians - ridicule them, Drug abuse, Feeling like an outsider, Fulfillment, God's love, Jesus – a relationship with Him, Lack of direction, Marriage – crisis, Military life, My Christian life - obedience, Pride, Purpose of life, Rape, Sense of belonging, Sense of identity, Shame, Striving for wealth, Success - career

November 5, 2019 0

Petra (Czech Republic)

Meet Petra

Petra talks about her devastation when her mother died. She had called out to God to help, but when nothing happened, she thought about God no more. In her grief, she met some Christian friends and she was very drawn to their kindness. Over time, she realized that it was the love of God in them. At a Christian event, God allowed Petra to see Him clearly for the first time. She believed that Jesus died on the cross on her behalf. She delights in the personal relationship she has with Jesus, and He provides comfort and rest for Petra when she thinks about the loss of her mother.

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Petra’s story was produced by Moving Works, Austin, Texas, USA.

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Tags: Christians - good examples, Coping with tragedy, Emotional pain, God - feeling discouraged by God, God - lack of knowledge about God, God - personal relationship with God, God - skeptical about God, God - who is God?, Jesus – a relationship with Him, Jesus – relying on Him, Mother - death, Mother - illness

October 31, 2019 0

Jeff (USA)

Meet Jeff

Jeff grew up in Japan and had an outstanding career in martial arts. Yet he did not feel satisfied. He became a very hard drug user and sacrificed home life with his wife and newborn. On one occasion Jeff found he had overdosed on ecstasy. He called out to God and his overdose symptoms subsided. He continued living a reckless existence until he found himself homeless and penniless. At rock bottom, without any distractions, he opened up the Bible and began reading. He understood the gospel for the first time and asked Jesus to be his Lord as well as his Savior. Jesus has turned Jeff’s life around.

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This story was produced by Anchored North, Anaheim Hills, California, USA.

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Tags: Alcohol abuse, Debt, Drug abuse, Drug abuse - cocaine, Drug abuse - ecstasy, Drug abuse - overdose, Drug addiction, Home loss, Success - martial arts, The Bible – curiosity, The gospel (God's message to the world), Unfulfillment

October 26, 2019 0

Amir (Israel)

Meet Amir

Amir grew up in a Jewish home in Israel. His parents divorced and he was placed in foster care. He describes being hopeless and suicidal. Something stopped him from taking his life. The same week he heard Christian prayers in his friend’s home. He wasn’t happy to hear the name of Jesus. But he wrote a note and asked God to show him who this Jesus was. Then Amir watched a film that was released about the life of Jesus. He got to see the prophesies of the Old Testament fulfilled in Jesus Christ. He asked Jesus to be his Messiah. Amir now knows why God didn’t allow him to kill himself that day. He knows that Israel’s only hope is Jesus Christ.

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This story was produced by Anchored North, Anaheim Hills, California, USA.

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Tags: Childhood - fostered, Hopelessness, Jesus - is He God?, Judaism, Parents - divorce, Suicidal

October 26, 2019 0

Marty (USA)

Meet Marty

Marty grew up in the Jewish faith and was very aware of the division and separation between Jews and Gentiles. He talks about a blossoming career in showbusiness. His music partner became a Born-again Christian and started telling Marty about Jesus. He got angry and resentful. He read some of the Bible in order to disprove his friend, only to discover in the book of Mathew that Jesus was Jewish. God continued to draw Marty to Him, through other Christian friends. He reached the point where he surrendered his life and placed his faith in Jesus for the removal of his sins. Marty talks about the privilege of knowing Jesus personally, and how Jesus has removed pride and selfishness from his life.

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This story was produced by One For Israel, Colleyville, Texas, USA.

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Tags: Christians - dislike or hostility, Jesus - hesitating to surrender to Him, Jesus - is He God?, Jesus – a relationship with Him, Judaism, Pride, Selfishness, Spirituality - don't care

October 26, 2019 0

Iranian Jewish Man (Iran)

This Iranian Jewish man first heard Jesus talked about when he went to the US. At the time he was offended but intrigued by people’s faith in Jesus. While reading the Jewish scriptures, God used Isaiah chapter 53 to open his heart that Jesus is the Messiah, the Lamb who was slain for the sins of the world. It brought to mind an experience in his youth where a Rabbi had slaughtered a lamb for the sins of his family. He accepted Jesus as the Messiah but shares how he didn’t tell his family. God used a terrible accident involving his son, to finally openly share his faith in Jesus Christ. He is very grateful to God for saving his son’s life.