Out of all the billions of people in the world, no two people have the same fingerprints. Each one of us is unique, and that uniqueness is far more than skin deep.

‘For me, there is one scripture that changed the whole of my life and the life of my family. When I was growing up, my Dad abused me and I almost lost my life. My first memory, I was three years old and I was hiding behind my brother and my Dad was...

‘I work part-time. I cover the childcare costs, which are expensive. But recently, I was trying to work more hours because I needed more income. I was asked if I wanted to do the children’s work for my church. I’ve got two children, but that’...

‘My mother had drink problems and there was a lot of domestic violence. I had three brothers who were heroin addicts. One died. To me, it was normal. We were happy enough. I never believed in God. I thought the Bible was a book of made-up stories t...

I’ve had many bereavements. I have lost all my sisters and my brothers. They died. My daughter died, and my husband died two years apart. I went through it. At first, I was sad. But then the sadness went. If you look at Psalm 27, it says, “The Lo...

The verse that has meant the most to me is Jeremiah 29.11. It says, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” When I first read that, it resonated massively but ...

‘When I first became a Christian, everything was very hard, trying to change. I still had the urge to drink and take drugs. But I found that if I read Luke 15, the story of the Good Shepherd, that would make the urge go away. I felt I was that one ...

‘When my wife was pregnant, we were so excited. But it was a very difficult birth. My daughter spent a long time in the special care unit. There were weeks of tests. I was thinking that everything was going to be OK. The consultant laid it all on t...

‘In April 2018 God gave me Psalm 37.3–4, “Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” I shared this with a friend who said, “How exc...

‘I recently received a diagnosis of cancer. The scripture I read then was John 17.13, where Jesus prayed for his disciples that “they might have my joy in their hearts in all its fullness”. Also, a friend prayed that I would experience “peace...

About 30 years ago I'd been on a trip to Israel, which was wonderful, and on the trip back home it was really busy on the train from Reading; our group was split up and seated all over the train. I was very tired because we'd had a very ear...

‘About 10 years ago, I was very, very ill and the doctors couldn’t see how to treat me. I basically had two years at home confined to a wheelchair. I didn’t see anyone except my husband and girls. I slept and looked out of the window. I couldn�...

‘At the beginning of last year, I signed up to the Rooted box following my brother’s death in February. He had had a heart transplant and then had his vaccine. He passed away from blood clots a month later. He was only 30. It was devastating. ‘...

‘The passage that is really important to me is Ephesians 3.16–19 which talks about God strengthening us, knowing his love and being “filled to the measure of all the fullness of God”. I used to be in a wheelchair. I had a car accident in 2006...

‘My Bible is open at Luke 9 which is about how Jesus feeds 5,000 people. This is interesting because he found a child with five loaves and two fish. This shows me that I can do something for God. That child could have eaten that food himself, but h...

After you turn 60, you get a bowel screening every two years. It came around and I did it. I was sent for tests. After three months, they said that I had stage four cancer with secondaries in my lung and liver.

My wife and I were told we’d likely never have children – even if we went through certain procedures. I was born with a “defect”, and after both of us went through some tests, I discovered I had one or two other issues that added insult to in...

Prasad and Mariam were just two beneficiaries of the End-to-End project run by Bible Society in the Gulf and supported by you here in England and Wales. Read their testimonies today.

Christian approaches to political engagement often fall into one of two camps: ‘distinctive’ or ‘engaged’. The Bible instead calls the Christian to ‘distinctive engagement’ in politics, where we get thoroughly engaged in politics, but wit...

For more than two years now, our colleagues at Ukrainian Bible Society such as Anatoliy have been risking their lives taking aid, medicine and the Scriptures to people across the country, and increasingly to areas of fighting.