Plucky Michelle Warren defied death on several occasions, battling leukaemia and cancer as well as surviving a near-fatal traffic accident. Today she’s following her passion to help street children in Africa
Michelle Warren should be dead. She was involved in a severe car accident as a young adult, losing her memory for a day and walking with crutches. She’s also had cancer. But she survived, and today she’s reaching more than 600 orphans in the slums of Kenya.
Michelle, 46, has driven lorries across Europe distributing aid and quit her job as a nurse to focus on full-time ministry.
Michelle, who attends Elim’s Gateway Church in Pontypridd and is the Founder and Director of Lighthouse of God Ministries, says it’s a miracle she’s alive.
She explains how her journey to becoming a missionary started soon after a near-fatal accident involving a lorry when she was 21.
“I was driving down a hill in Swindon,” she recalls. “I stopped at the roundabout because there was a car coming, but a lorry behind me didn’t stop and it shunted me forward across in front of the oncoming car. I nearly went down onto the motorway. I was very close to dying.
“I remember the ambulance came, and I heard them speaking as they came towards my car, ‘Oh, there’s no one alive in there, it’s not worth hurrying for this one.’ I hadn’t been a Christian for that long, but believe me I shouted, ‘Get me out of here, I am alive!’
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