L.I.G.H.T. Living In God's Hands Today

Alan's Story

Alan, a heavy marijuana user, travels many paths in search of spiritual answers. Confused and troubled by bad dreams and mental darkness, he loses his job and his house. Fortunately, a stranger befriends him and leads him to church. God’s grace saves him.

Alonzo's Story

A mainline heroin addict who is saved through a stranger’s faith in a forgiving God. From the lowest part of Alonzo’s life, God raises him to begin two drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers saving countless lives of addicted men.

Alvin's Story (Part One)

Alvin’s Story   Part 1

Alvin Slaughter is a powerful Gospel singer who follows his own ego and agenda instead of God’s. He becomes too full of himself as the director of his church’s choir. His wife, Gloria throws him out. Alvin separates himself from God, and takes a job selling shoes.

Alvin's Story (Part Two)

Reluctantly, he visits the Brooklyn Tabernacle and fills out a visitor’s card. Unknown to him, Gloria does the same. The pastor invites them both to come meet with him. Alvin auditions to sing in the Brooklyn Tabernacle choir and becomes one of their featured soloists. God brings Alvin, Gloria and their children together in a miraculous way.

Artie's Story

Elliot Avenue in Yonkers, NY was inhabited by drug pushers and dealers. The police knew about Elliot Ave. but were unable to do anything about it. Artie, who loved the Lord, gets drunk and starts ranting at a crack house. Arrested several times for disturbing the peace, Artie brings out the entire neighborhood to protest. Brian, worked on Wall Street and was always in control. He went on a men’s retreat and was so inspired, he went home to take control of his family’s piety. That didn’t work too well so he prayed. God answered Brian in a challenging way.

Becki's Story

Becki’s father is a pastor, his faith is severally shaken when his prayers and those of his congregation don’t work out the way they planned when Becki undergoes a life changing operation. A powerful story of faith and forgiveness.

Bill's Story

Bill had two near-death experiences serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he began an advertising career as an art director in New York City. A tragic accident causes him to lose almost everything, in desperation, he turns to God and creates a legacy of art titled, “In His Image”.

Billy's Story

Parenting isn’t easy especially when the whole family is subjected to an intervention that devastates them all. Billy’s problems test his parents and threaten his future and only God’s grace helps Billy and his family recover.

Cal's Story

A phone call to a crisis hotline reveals Cal’s decision to commit suicide. Cal, an advertising executive blames himself for letting his business take precedent over his family’s needs. The volunteer who takes Cal’s phone call leads him down the path of redemption that’s unfamiliar to Cal. God’s grace at work.

Dana's Story

A truly incredible story of God’s intervention to overcome a father’s impatience to get his family on to their flight home from Europe. If the father had his way his daughter, Dana, would have died from a burst appendix on that airplane.

Danny's Story

Danny was hung up on his own faults, blocking his faith with bitterness and a lack of forgiveness. Through a dramatic miracle, Danny’s eyes were finally opened to the truth of how God works in our lives.

Debbie's Story (Part One)

Debbie and Paul marry and have a beautiful daughter. With their second daughter on the way, a sudden labor forces them to enter the nearest ER at the city hospital. Inattention and complications caused Debbie and Paul to lose their baby.

Debbie's Story (Part Two)

Their third baby girl was delivered by a caesarean operation and remained in the hospital for 3 months. Now on oxygen, an open lung biopsy was ordered. The results show that contaminated blood was used in a transfusion ordered at the previous city hospital. Both babies and now Debbie’s, fate hang in the balance. Paul’s faith in a loving God helps him to turn this tragedy into a wonderful, lasting, legacy.

Denise's Story

Denise was brought up in a parochial school where she didn’t think much about God until her sister dies of an aneurysm. Bobby, her sister’s husband, is an ungrateful drinker who wants to go chill out and leave his kids for Denise to raise. Denise blames God for all this but her husband, Mason, encourages Denise to pray for Bobby, his kids and an answer.

Don's Story

While rock climbing in Colorado, the knot in Don’s repelling rope slips, plunging him 70 feet to a rock ledge below. This story is about how God is healing Don’s physical hurt while God, working through Don, is healing his brother’s emotional hurt after a disappointing divorce.

Ellie's Story

Ellie makes a bad decision at a party. Ashamed and confused, she doesn’t know where to turn until her high school friend convinces her to go with him to a Young Life meeting. The Young Life leader prays with Ellie to accept God’s love and forgiveness.

Grammy's Story

Before we had the advanced communication that is everywhere today, God reaches across time and space to answer a prayer desperately written in a letter.

Greg's Story

Greg had an alcoholic personality. Never being wrong, he subjects his wife, Chris, and their two daughters to every whim that came his way. After years of a one-sided marriage, Chris files for divorce. When Greg is told that Chris is in a coma from an accident, he reluctantly prays. God steps in to help Greg with his new faith.

Harold's Story

A very wealthy stranger on a plane approaches Harold with astonishing predictions about Harold’s son. Later, a friend invites Harold, who is an artist, to meet another artist who turns out to be God’s second messenger with the same predictions.

Jack's Story (Part One)

Jack’s troubles started in high school. Jack is expelled so his buddy, Ralph, cuts him in to the mob. Jack sells drugs to an undercover cop and is sent up to the Big House. In the next cell, Crazy Jake torments Jack until Jack threatens to cut him with a ‘shank’made out of razor blades.

Jack's Story (Part Two)

Out of prison, Jack, high on heroin, misses an appointment with Ralph. Called before the mob he’s given one week to straighten up. Caught selling drugs to another undercover agent, Jack is sent to the Big House again. This time his cellmate is Crazy Jake, who is now a Christian. God works in mysterious ways.

Jamie's Story

Jamie is in a coma from an accident. His mother, Barbara, is devastated. Jamie’s father, Carl, has Multiple Sclerosis and is bitter. Absorbed in self-pity, Carl has no time to believe in prayer. When the children at Barbara’s church pray for Jamie, Carl is moved to see Jamie in the hospital. At the same time, Jamie comes out of his coma

Jeff's Story

Drugs, drinking and fighting puts Jeff in Jail. Released, he doesn’t change. He moves in with Donna, drives a semi and wants to marry her. They see a pastor and Jeff is told to go to AA and marriage counseling. That didn’t last long and Jeff is thrown out. Only God’s grace and prayer helps Jeff to overcome his addictions.

Jenkin's Story

A prisoner of war, Commander Harry Jenkins, U.S. Navy, must face torture and even death as a daily routine in the ‘Hanoi Hilton’. God is faithful in this powerful story about the survival and faith of Jenkins and his fellow captives.

Jim's Story

Jim’s alcoholic problem began in high school and on into adulthood. He meets Sonia, and 4 years later they get married. Sonia, tired of Jim’s drunkenness, moves back to Poland with their 3 children. Jim loses his job and sobers up. Sonia returns and they seek help. A Christian counselor brings Jim to his knees…in prayer.

Julie's Story

A debilitating disease that began as a teenager takes its toll on Julie as an adult. A stranger intervenes to save Julie’s marriage and her life. This story of overcoming an addiction exemplifies the healing power of God at work.

Kevin's Story

This is a story told by Kevin, a Young Life leader, about Jenny, who makes a poor decision with a boy she likes and becomes pregnant. Jenny’s decision starts a downhill spiral that threatens to destroy her life, the life of her child and that of a friend who is trying to help her.

The L.I.G.H.T. Story

Another one of God’s miracles is the story of how L.I.G.H.T. came into being. Prayers for guidance and direction were answered in ways only God could deliver.

Laurie's Story

Laurie isn’t a believer, so her brother gives her his bible to take with her on a trip to Europe. Her faith begins to grow and is ultimately tested when she is in a near fatal car crash and the doctors must perform a life-threatening surgery.

Liz's Story

Divorced and her children grown and gone, Liz faces radical surgery alone. She checks herself into the hospital and calls her sister. Before driving up to help Liz get a few ‘second opinions’, her sister prays and calls her prayer chain. God takes over and Liz finds the perfect answer to all her problems.

Marie's Story

Marie grew up in an intellectual, agnostic family. As a result, she had no faith. One of her daughters, Patricia, was not growing normally and she didn’t know why. Maria, reluctantly, prays for an answer. An acquaintance suggests that Patricia might have Turners Syndrome which can be treated successfully. God answers her prayer by placing the right people at just the right time.

Mark's Story

Mark hears God speak to him. On a men’s retreat, God says, “Mark, don’t you trust me?”. A friend tells Mark he quit his job because God wants him to feed the hungry by buying a huge food company. Mark is cool to his friend’s story. However, Mark jumps in and the prayers begin.

Marty's Story

In college, Marty has a horrible auto accident after a party leaving him with partial paralysis, a speech impediment and a loss of motor skills. Suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury and in deep depression, Marty’s health issues are compounded. Through his mother’s faith, Marty is able to accept God’s love back into his life.

Matt's Story

A hard-rock drummer and part time artist is caught up in the drinking and drug scene. Matt’s wife, Carla, is pregnant and Matt wants her to have an abortion. Matt gets a day job so they have a steady income and can afford to add to their family. When a big paying drummer job falls through, God opens a door for Matt that changes his life.

Mike's Story

Mike grew up in New England not really knowing much about his parents or his 3 siblings. Only at his sister Gloria’s funeral does he learn about her life in Colorado and how she impacted her community. His other sister dies from a mix up in her meds. Mike vows, with God’s help, to keep his family knitted tightly together.

Reggie's Story

A recovering alcoholic, Reggie is troubled by her own problems as well as her ex-husband’s association with an occult. She befriends a pastor of an Episcopal Church who brings her nearer to God when an unexpected event challenges her faith.

Rosemary's Story

Rosemary grew up in a happy home but an accident changed her life. A spilled pot of scolding water burns half of her body leaving her disfigured. Skin grafts and related problems plague her life. Ashamed of her scars, Rosemary reluctantly agrees to go on a blind date. One year later she marries Joe and the happiness she knew as a child returns.

T.J.'s Story

A rock musician, T.J., goes off the deep end with drinking and drugs .This leads him to  Hollywood as the boyfriend of a famous glamor star. The glamor soon wears off and he moves back home where he continues his hard rock and hard drugs. God uses T.J.’s musical talents to save him

Vicki's Story

Alcoholism takes control of two friends who share how their deceptions drove them on a path of lies, accusations and severe marital problems. God working through the program of Alcoholics Anonymous saves them.

Virginia's Story

Virginia’s husband, Gary, is a New York Executive who seems to be married to his work. His business trips with his client, a younger, single woman, turns into an affair and eventually a divorce from Virginia. Devastated, Virginia seeks God’s answer for her future and that of her two children.