I was born in Germany not long after World War 2. My mother was from Latvia and I never knew my real father. I have two sisters one older, one younger.
My stepfather was a Hungarian gypsy who had been cruelly tortured in Auschwitz and robbed of his right to father children.

We lived in the forest in wooden chalet type buildings and were subject to quite a strict 'Romany' code of behaviour. Often I would be barefoot and many times we had no food. My mother would often get drunk and my stepfather would beat her up and I felt responsible for her welfare. It was as if I was never allowed to be a child.
At school I was mercilessly bullied and attacked as a 'gypsy' and I can still remember running quickly out of school at hometime and having stones thrown at me by the other pupils.
Life was hard.

As a little girl, I had a simple 'faith' in Jesus which was encouraged by my 'auntie' who used to pray with me. I asked Him into my life when I was about 4 years old. Around the age of 12 I felt that I didn't belong here, - [on Earth] - and remember telling God that I didn't want to be here and that I wanted to come home.
I had a strange 'sensation' in my ears and heard God telling me that 'It wasn't time for me to come home yet, and that there were things He had for me to do'.

Then I realised in my childlike way that I wasn't on my own and that God wanted me to care for people. I stayed close to my 'auntie' and looked after her eight children, one of whom couldn't walk or stand up.
I spent a lot of time with this little girl and saw a miracle when eventually she was able to walk.

In my teenage years I stayed at one place after another to look after the children of various family members.
At seventeen I left school and trained in a garment factory for a while and did various other jobs.
At nineteen I went to visist my younger sister who was living with a famous rock musician in London, and there I met my first husband. I was introduced to a world of drugs and began smoking cannabis and marijuana. However, at that time I was unaware that my husband had a serious drink problem as well and when I discovered this I was horrified. Especially as my young life had been blighted by my parents misuse of alcohol.

Throughout this time I always prayed to God about things, but I didn't really 'know' Jesus in the sense that I do now. I struggled trying to keep my marriage to a drunken inconsiderate man , in one piece.

By 1974 I had three children and a shambolic marriage. My husband would go out with hundreds of pounds in his pocket and dissapear for weeks on end, leaving myself and the children without money or transport.
We lived in a remote location in the hills of West Wales UK.

We were frequently raided by the police looking for the drugs my husband was dealing, and eventually he was imprisoned for 6 months. When he returned things got even worse and finally after being threatened with a gun, I took my children and left.

As a single parent I looked after my children and found a job caring for people with learning difficulties.
I had two relationships that didn't work out and after more emotional pain now that the children were grown, I started to learn the art of Shiatsu massage - [Ancient Chinese healing therapy].
Eventually I went back to Germany and worked for a hospital visiting and caring for patients in their homes.

I was on my own for a couple of years and knew there was something missing in my life and I started to pray more and ask God for a husband.
God asked me what sort of man I wanted and I told him.
I went back on holiday to Wales to visit my children and it was then that I met Nick who was a single parent of two boys, also on his own after the breakup of his second marriage.

I felt that God had put us together, especially after Nick asked me to marry him after three days! He was exactly what I had asked God for - he fullfilled all the things I had said I wanted in my husband.
He told me that God had told him I was to be his wife, and he also 'saw' little doves flying around my head as God told him ' She is a peacemaker'.

We began to pray together and God set us free from many things that were wrong in our lives - we were married the following year [1994] and I looked after Nick's two sons Benjamin and Joshua.
For several years God was preparing me. I grew in knowledge and understanding and was delivered of many things I had 'picked up' in the world. I had a lot of healing ministry both physical and spiritual.
Bit by bit God began to put our lives in order and eventually He sent us to Egypt in 1999 where we saw our first miracles happen.

From that point on we have both grown in our knowledge and experience, and God has given us responsibility in places all over the world. We now move in healing and have seen many miracles in our ministry.