Patricia Azuka is a graduate of the Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. She had her B L at Nigerian Law School. She for us a practising Lawyer in Lagos, Nigeria. She is a good Christian and a Counsellor in her local community church in Lagos State of Nigeria. She has written so many inspirational messages.

Patricia Azuka

Beryl Bamu has dedicated her life to serving God and humanity. A minister and writer, Dr. Bamu merges her Christian faith and educationist background to address issues on vulnerability from a biblical standpoint. She has passion for and sees strength vulnerable people as she visualises vulnerability through God’s lens. She equally holds a PhD in pedagogical sciences with special focus on disability and Inclusion. She currently lives in Belgium with her Family.

Beryl Ndongwa Bamu

I am a retired medical consultant and professor. I have been involved in medical education and the teaching of educational theory and practice to medical staff for many years. I hold a qualification in medical education. I am also a Christian and have been involved in teaching for many years as part of Christian service both in the UK and overseas.

Edwin Pugh

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, I have a degree in languages from Dublin University, Trinity College. I have had no formal training in the art of preaching, although many years at my place of work, the King’s School in Macclesfield, where I had responsibility for organising and frequently delivering the morning assembly, has given me a unique experience in communication to a wide range of listeners.

It has been an enormous privilege, a challenge and a responsibility to be asked to preach from time to time at my local church, Tytherington Family Worship Church in Macclesfield, and previously at the Good News Church in the same town. Both of these Church Fellowships hold the Word of God dear to their hearts and my sermons, I trust, reflect that. Perhaps they might more accurately be described as studies in the word God, since they do not often follow the usual sermon pattern of “say what you are going to say, say it with points beginning with the same letter, and then say what you have said.”

Alan Batchelor

Julie Porter by profession is a qualified Child Care Practitioner and Child Mentor. She became a born again Christian in 1997 and has served in many roles including Sunday School Teacher, Youth Leader, Worship Leader and Treasurer. Julie is currently a licensed minister who has a Masters degree in Christian Education and a part-time lecturer at a Christian Training College specialising in teaching Christian Counselling from Diploma to Masters degree level.

She has always had a deep love of writing and have been writing poems, short stories and songs for over 30 years. On many occasions performed poetry in public and songs  sung by her local church. So why write this book? There has always been a driving desire to put her thoughts onto paper and has many unpublished material. However, after many years of research on the topic of loneliness and solitude as well as an ongoing general observation of others and finally her own personal experiences, she feels now is the right time to launch out and have her work published.

Julie Porter

Ali Ansarifar was born in 1955 in Persia and has been living in the UK for the last 45 years. He was awarded BSc (Materials Engineering) in 1981 and PhD (Materials) in 1987 from Queen Mary Collage and Diploma of Imperial Collage in 1989 from the University of London. He worked as post-doctoral Research Assistant at Imperial College and Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge until 1990. He was Upper Senior Research Scientist in Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre, Malaysian Rubber Producers’ Research Association until 1996. He was Lecturer in Polymer Engineering in the Materials Department at Loughborough University and retired as Senior Lecturer in September 2018. He has given lectures, seminars and workshops in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle-East and south East Asia. He has published over 130 technical research papers in peer reviewed international journals and contributed chapters to scientific books. He has been a member of the editorial board of numerous scientific journals and has been awarded prizes for his scientific publications. He is a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy.

Ali Ansarifar

A qualified and former nurse, I have spent the last 45 years Caring for my son, Simon who lives with autism and Cri Du Chat Syndrome. My Caring role included teaching Simon how to read and home-schooling him in a variety of subjects after his school said he wouldn’t be able to be educated. My position as a Family Carer was a dual one, caring for Simon whilst also caring for my late husband, Peter who lived with Schizophrenia and, in recent years, dementia.
A lifelong practicing Christian, I have always sought out a local church no matter where we have lived. These church communities and God have been my refuge and strength during testing and emotional times.
For me, the biggest source of strength, love and inspiration has been the Lord Jesus. It is my Faith in the Lord that has spurred me on to participate in campaigning, initiatives and Caring groups to help improve the lives of my fellow Carers. I have also had the privilege of writing and publishing articles about my experiences educating Simon in magazines and publications related to Caring, for example in The Nursing Times and Community Living.

Ann Nunn

I am not qualified at all! I have simply found myself in a place where I have listened as the Holy Spirit has inspired my heart. All that I write is the flowing of the word of God into my heart, it is the inspiration of the never ceasing love of God which maintains us when the storm winds blow and we find ourselves cast upon the rocks.

Linda Plant

The experiences in my life changed me as a person when I felt lost and alone. I had dreams about an accident that left me paralysed. Then fell badly and broke my neck in a freak accident. Since then, I have been guided by Almighty God.

Michael Flounders

Like Elihu in Job 32, I am full or words. Saved at 32 through familiar spirit involvement, some publicity, interview on Revelation TV, retired refrigeration engineer, at present my church is Assemblies of God.

My wife and I were involved in the setting up of a church on our estate, our house was a magnet for young people. I still do help out with the youth meeting at my church. I have kept note of the creation/evolution debate now for around 50 years and have a desire to communicate my thoughts on the subject.

I have no academic qualification to offer, however I feel the debate I have written of is too often couched in scientific esoteric language, often leaving more questions than answers. I have written out testimony into the book, chapter 8, as evidence of the truth of a spiritual dimension.

John Cockerill

John Hadden was born in Dunbar, Scotland. He studied at Dunbar Grammar School and later with the Open University, obtaining a BA (Hons) in Psychology and becoming a member of the British Psychological Society. He ran several social care programmed including drug rehabilitation, homeless accommodation, and independent-living training. A committed Christian for many years, John’s main Bible passion is found in the pages of the Book of Revelation. His hope is that Earth’s Final Chapter will be a source of blessing and understanding to many.

John Hadden

I have been writing poetry for many years but not seriously sought publication. I did have a regular poetry page in the quarterly Welsh Country Magazine. I grew up in Bristol, was an accounts clerk for a few years before going to theological college to train as a church minister. I served the Lord in the north-east before returning to Bristol. Since retiring, my wife Sally and I run a small but successful village shop, with me occasionally taking a service.

Martin H. Perry

Writing has always been part of my life, between the demands and joys of work and bringing up as family. As a speech and language therapist I have a number of professional publications, as well as poetry and plays. I am also a Methodist lay preacher, so perhaps fifty years of writing sermons could be added to the list.

Author of Tales of the Unremembered

I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Gynaecologists with 42 years of practice. I am also a practising Christian, a former Deacon at the Elim Pentecostal Church, Southport. I am a trained Christian Counsellor, teacher of undergraduate medical students, trainer of specialist doctors, who have given sermons and public speeches in the UK, Nigeria and South Africa. I also have a Master’s degree in Medico-legal Law from Cardiff University in Wales. I am married with three children, one of them a General Practitioner, another a journalist and a third who went to Dental School.

Author of 1000 Reason to Praise God

I have an undergraduate degree and masters in law. However, the thing that qualifies me most to write creatively is the hunger God has placed inside of my heart to know Jesus more. Any spark of creativity or eloquence inside of me is merely the product of a glimpse of him within the pages of the greatest book ever written, the Bible. As he favours me with revelation of who he is, I find myself falling deeply in love with Jesus and desiring to muster up every ounce of creativity inside of me to tell his story to this world. My passion is to reach a world which desperately needs to know him with the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Author of Perspectives of the Greatest Story Ever Told

I am a committed Christian, wife and mother. I have a diploma in Children’s Mission and Ministry and this is where my love of writing began.

Although this is the first book I have written I have written extensive Multi-sensory Worship material called ‘Ablaze Worship’ which has been used by both children and adults in a number of different settings including Churches, Sunday Schools, All Age Services, Mission Shaped Communities, Church weekends away, Messy Church, Worship teams and at home.

I am a member of Holy Trinity Church in Leicester, an evangelical charismatic church. They are a ‘resourcing church’ for Leicester diocese and regional hub for New Wine. I lead and am involved with children’s groups within the Children’s Work at our church and have been involved or led children’s work for over 20 years. I am part of the Prayer & Prophetic Ministry Team. I am also a member of our Worship Team helping to lead worship with children at our church.

I have preached at several churches on prayer and shared content from this book as sermons. I have spoken at various local training sessions and conferences for Children’s and Young peoples work. I have also written and shared articles from some of the stories in this book for an online Christian course that is being created called ‘Overcoming’. I have had an article published in the Children’s Work Magazine.

Prior to being blessed with our daughter Grace I worked in the Financial Services Industry for Standard Life, Axa, and Scottish Life as a broker consultant for 18 years. Where I had the opportunity of writing various articles for the Prospect Magazine and being Regional Chairman of the L.I.A. in the East Midlands.

Author of God Can

Alan K. Scotland has been engaged in Christian ministry for over
50 years, spending most of his time working with church groups in the US, UK and throughout the world. He has helped many people facing personal difficulties, often when they had given up hope. It is his fervent wish to pass on their stories so that others may gain strength and find a way out of the prison of despair.

Author of Vitamins for the Soul

I am the 9th of 10 children born in and raised in Ghana, West Africa. I came to England in my early 20s and became a mother and a wife before I was 25 years old. I am on my 2nd journey of my life. A life of peace, purpose and hope because I now know who I am and why I am. I trained as a paediatric nurse and a specialist community public health nurse and was employed in the NHS for 14 years.

I took my position in God’s Kingdom Business working as a teacher and mentor of life in the areas of identity, purpose and relationships. I started my work in 2020 a couple of months prior to the lockdown in March 2020, when I gathered a group of young women together to empower them by sharing my story with them. I did this to give them insights with some truths of life to point them in the direction to make right choices in the midst of being swamped with ever increasing information.

By mid-2021, I have founded the organisation, Essiens (www.essiens.org) to cater for the growth in working in the purpose of my life. My work has expanded to include men and women, whether single or married, separated or gone through divorce and parents. It is my passion to bring hope to people’s situations by empowering them with the truth of who they are and why they are and to foster purposeful and fulfilling relationships based on Kingdom principles. This is my ministry.
I am honest, trustworthy with a good sense of humour. I am growing in patience, peace and joy ever since grace found me. It is priceless! I want to share this with everyone to bring hope to people because I used to live life on the surface.

My life lacked substance and purpose; my life was unfulfilling and devoid of peace in those times, I now call the first journey of my life because I had a weak foundation. My priorities were wrong affecting my children and my home. But then, grace located me and I now have a different story to tell.

I have 2 children (my blessings), my daughter and my son who are part of my story and supportive of my ministry.
I am also a trustee for Christ Compassion Minister International in the UK and I am a church leader.

Author of Parenting Apprenticeship

Danielle Tanner is a financial crime investigator by profession, a job that she really enjoys. She has been an anti-money laundering and compliance professional working within the financial services industry for the last six years.

However, she also has a passion for writing and have been writing fiction and non-fiction Christian content for over a year. A decade ago, she felt an urge from the Lord to start writing. This was further confirmed prophetically by men and women of God over the years.

Sweet Dreams, Tanya is her debut novel. She has also written a Children’s book soon to be published.

She is married to a lovely, understanding and supportive man who has to put up with her long hours working and writing.

Author of Sweet Dreams Tanya

Dr. John Dyer is  Baptist minister having trained for the Christian ministry at Spurgeon’s College in London. He served in Brazil with the Baptist Missionary Society from 1978 to 2012. His main work in Brazil focused on leadership training for the churches. John is married to Maria and have one son, João Marcos, and two grandchildren, Aurora and Luís João.

Author of Jesus – Dead or Alive? The Evidence and Encounters with God in Brazil

Andy Bates is 56 and worked as a postman for over 40 years. He has been married to Nicola for over a quarter of a century with a 17 year old Son Evan. Andy has been a Christian since 1994 and am a member of Sheffield Presbyterian Church.

Author of From Darkness to Light: Nigel’s Story

Sheela Burrell studied Creative Writing at California State University, Fresno where she had her first short story, The Flood, published in Common Wages, the University journal. Upon obtaining her MA in Creative Writing, Sheela taught English in a secondary school in Malaysia and later worked as a lecturer at a higher education college in Kuala Lumpur. Sheela currently does Story Time for under-5s and works with young people at Meadgate Church, Great Baddow.

Author of When God Made the World

Abigail Harverson (Illustrator of the book) is an A Level Art student who enjoys expressing her creativity and experimenting with digital illustrations. She has been an avid art lover from a very young age and hopes to pursue a creative career.

Gordon is an accredited Baptist Union Minister (BUGB) and a DFE accredited Secondary School Teacher. He was Head of RE and Pastoral Head, and has pastured several Baptist churches, including a BMC church. The calling of God to both arenas enriched Gordon’s ministry and service. Preaching and teaching are in his DNA and has an honorary Director of Missions, and participated in International Mission Conferences in the UK, Canada, USA, and Brazil.

Gordon’s wider ministry also includes counselling, mentoring, coaching, and moderating churches. His preaching and teaching takes him into other networks beyond Baptist churches, and also lead evangelistic and renewal weekends. Academically, Gordon studied at Cliff College, Derbyshire, Spurgeon’s Theological College, London and my accreditations are: Diploma in Theology (London University), Bachelor of Arts (Theology) CNAA, Master of Education (Brunel University).

His fields of interest include Church and Social history and Sport which includes football, squash and tennis coaching. Most importantly, his Christian testimony of conversion forms his everyday life and his engage with people of all ages within and without the church by sharing the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and hopefully bringing people to Christ.

Author of Breaking Through and Reaching Out

I have a BA in English and French. I worked for Leeds Healing Rooms on the ministry team before it closed. I am now an evangelist, and I serve on the ministry team for my local Filling Station and for an international ministry. I am the mother of 3 children.

Mrs Sarah Aderibigbe is first a daughter of God, Sister, Wife and Mother. Having given her life to Christ at 19 years old, she discovered purpose only after finding Jesus Christ. Born and bred in Brixton, South London, United Kingdom, Sister Sarah is in touch with many of the common challenges that young minds of today oftentimes face, especially in the Western World, whilst navigating the path of youth and singlehood in general.

Sister Sarah’s confession is that her God-given purpose is to write. Following her dramatic salvation experience, there was an awakening in Sister Sarah to the seed placed inside her by God. This seed began to germinate and expressed itself in the various articles and devotionals she began to write for her local Church community which were inspired by Bible passages. The hunger in her to write grew and has since metamorphosed into a deep-seated conviction to reach the world with words from the bosom of God. Sister Sarah counts herself as a work-in- progress that Christ is daily moulding and shaping. Sister Sarah simply wishes to be the unprofitable, dutiful servant in the vineyard of writing.

A Law Graduate who is a Legal Practitioner by profession, Sister Sarah Aderibigbe has a passion for advocating for others and is passionate about being a voice for those who are in need of legal redress and resolutions. Sister Sarah also serves in the Singing Ministry and Youth Ministry of her local Church community. Currently residing in Liverpool, United Kingdom with her Husband and three children, she strives to walk in purpose with the ministries of Wifehood and Motherhood which she has been graciously called into. Sister Sarah Aderibigbe, along with her Family, attends the Manchester Fellowship in United Kingdom of a non-denominational Christian worldwide organisation that believes in and professes the undiluted word of God as expressed in the Holy Bible. This book, The Soaring Single, is Sister Sarah’s debut book.

Alice is a qualified teacher with an MA in History. She currently works for a church in the U.K. and enjoys creating prayer resources that draw people closer to the heart of God. Her writing focuses on equipping and enabling Christians to stand firm in faith in all circumstances, using the Bible as a life-bringing tool and manual.