Much as I dislike driving traffic to The Guardian, this article is well worth a read:

I first met Barry just after he’d become a Christian and got involved in the children’s ministry I headed up  (…his first role was to play the part of “Smelly Elvis”!).  Proud to see him go from strength to strength, or – more accurately – from weakness to strength; from brokenness to wholeness; from hopelessness to hopefulness; from debt to solvent; and from death to life.