Zachary King is from the United States, and grew up in a Baptist family. He really hated going to church because his family didn’t live their faith at home.
He spent a lot of time watching movies and playing fantasy games. This hobby led him to enter into a Witches’ Sabbath when he was thirteen. It is astonishing to hear him speak about how at fifteen he had gone against all Ten Commandments, even to the point of killing someone. When he was only 21 years old, he became “High Wizard,” a very high position in the world of magic.
Zachary explains what a wizard’s activity consists in, who go to them, how they do spells, and much more. One of his goals was to destroy the Baptist Church that he had belonged to as a child.
Although there’s not enough time to reach the end of the story in this program, we want to let you know that Zachary is now one of God’s soldiers.

Sister Mary Gianna Klein is a Dominican sister. She began to grow up in a nominally Catholic family. When she was little, her mother grew close to the Lord and decided to pray the Rosary every day with the family. Sister Mary Gianna, who resisted at first, slowly began to accept God and to allow Him to guide her. Thanks to her mother’s perseverence, she was able to change tracks and surrender her life completely to God.

Augustinus, whose identity is kept secret for security reasons, tells us how he came to know God. He was born into a Muslim family, although the faith was never a priority in his house. He began to reflect on the nearness of death due to an illness during his adolescent years, which sent him on a desperate search for truth. Not having found it, he gave up and decided to continue his life as an atheist. It was through a series of dreams that the Lord finally guided him to the Truth.

This week January Donovan gets on our train. She is Filipino, although currently living in the United States, and is a wife and mother of five children. She grew up in the Philippines in a very happy and traditionally Catholic environment. When she moved to the U.S. during her adolescence, she began to fall away from the Faith. The "American dream" of wanting to have everything, led her down a tortuous path. God was not in her plans during high school. She went to parties, began to go out with a guy when she was very young, and was pregnant at the age of sixteen. Finding no support from those around her, she followed her high school counselor's advice and decided to have an abortion.
In this program, January tells us how she had her personal encounter with the Lord, which transformed her entire life.

Stephen Staten tells us about his long search for the Truth which took him down many paths. He was baptized Protestant and from a very young age he wanted to give his life to the Lord. But later, in high school, his relationships with God changed dramatically when he lost all feelings of the presence of God. He tried to fill that emptiness in several different places –Islam, Orthodox Islam, the Orthodox Church…but his love for God the Father and his sincere search for the Truth lead him to the Catholic Church.

Cynthia Gardner grew up in the Presbyterian Church, though her faith was not very strong. She married Michael Gardner, previously interviewed in Changing Tracks, and though her husband was Methodist they continued attending the Presbyterian Church. Through conversations with a friend, she decided to buy a book about the Marian apparitions in Medjugorje, which changed the direction of her own life and that of her whole family. After many discussions with her husband and interior battles about whether or not to enter the Catholic Church (because of the incoherence of many Catholics), she reached the conclusion that the Truth was to be found in the Catholic Church. And wanting not only to save her own soul but those of her family, she decided to enter the Church. She joins us today to tell us how a Protestant changes tracks because of an intense love for the Blessed Virgin.