The phone rang at The Family's toll-free hotline number in the USA, and I answered it. Jay, the stranger on the line, sounded weird, like he was on drugs. He told me that he had a gun to his head, was "sick of it all," and was going to kill himself.

Then he explained that he had met a girl from The Family a while back. She had had "a special fire in her eyes," he said. When he had commented on that, she had told him that it was the love of God. That had really made an impression, and he had felt that love. Just a few minutes before he phoned, as he was about to pull the trigger, he had remembered her and called us as a last resort.

I told Jay that Jesus loved him, that He wanted to come into his heart and be a part of his life, and that He could give him the peace he wanted desperately but hadn't been able to find anywhere else. I shared some basic verses from the Bible about salvation, and Jay was touched and excited to hear that Jesus could love and forgive him. Jay asked me how he could receive Jesus and His Spirit of peace, and right there over the phone he prayed with me and asked Jesus into his heart. He started crying as he told me, "You just saved my life!"