“I was kidnapped at gun point in Johannesburg in 2010. These men wanted my car.. It was on a list of car makes to take. We think they had been watching me for some time and knew my movements. So one day when I was collecting my daughter from pre school these men surrounded me, put a gun to my head and drove me away, they threw me into the back of one car and then swapped me into the back of another.. These kind of things don’t usually end well. Another mother saw what happened and I was speed dialling Steve but I couldn’t have told him where we were going.

It was like everything became 4 dimensional and it was not an issue about whether or not I believed in Jesus.. It was like.. I.. Experienced him. It came from outside of me and enveloped me, the certainty, the calm assurance that no matter what happened to me they couldn’t hurt me.. It was like having an out of body experience. One of the men had a continual cough and I asked him can I pray for you? Not to make him like me, or so he would not hurt me but because I knew that God wanted to heal him. Later on I was lying face down in the back seat of the car and I was aware that my shirt was right up exposing my back.. But I had no fear.. And I felt this guy gently pull it back down to cover me.

In the end they put me put of the car, didn’t harm me and even gave me 50 rand to help me get home. One of the guys said I was the first person they ever felt bad doing this to. People ask me “why did you not have counselling” but I wasn’t afraid you see, I had no fear then and I have none now.”