(July 27, 2023) Michael Ashcraft shares a good news testimony…

A shotgun blast to his face left Leonard Williams blind! He was only 19 and the gun blast should have blown his head completely off.

‘It was the grace of God that kept me alive,’ says Leonard who grew up in Yuma, Arizona, at a time when the only economic activity revolved around the military base and agriculture.

Looking for excitement… falling into drugs
For a young man looking for excitement, there was little besides playing shuffleboard at the county centre, so Leonard fell into drugs and the streets just like his eight older brothers and four sisters in the 1960s.

Leonard met Patricia, the girl who is now his wife, in high school and they had a child, moving in together when he was 17. He dropped out of high school because of one assignment that involved an oral report. Terrified of public speaking, since an oral report was required to pass the class, Lionel dropped the entire shebang.

In 1977, gang culture hadn’t developed too much. Mostly, kids fought by neighbourhoods. Somebody from a rival neighbourhood had stolen his Chevy Impala and burned it.

Along with his buddies Lionel went out looking for revenge. His head was sticking out of the window as he looked for the culprits. Before he could see or do anything, the culprits fired a shotgun at him! ‘My head should have been taken off at the shoulders,’ he says.

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