Sometimes, we look at our predicaments in life and wonder how in the world God could possibly use us to be a light in the world. Chris Parker is 33 and homeless. By his own account, he begs for money to make it through the day. It seems rather unlikely he would be the source of inspiration for a nation, maybe even the world, but often God uses the most unexpected people to stir our hearts. Parker was begging for change in the foyer of the arena when the explosion went off, and he
described the scene to the Manchester Evening News: “Everyone was piling out, all happy and everything else. As people were coming out of the glass doors I heard a bang and within a split second I saw a white flash, then smoke and then I heard screaming. “It knocked me to the floor and then I got up and instead of running away my gut instinct was to run back and try and help. There was people lying on the floor everywhere. I saw a little girl. I wrapped her in one of the merchandise T-shirts and I said ‘where is your mum and daddy?’ She said ‘my dad is at work, my mum is up there’.” READ MORE
