Jesus is a hit with Helen
Back in the early 1960s, Helen Shapiro was a singing sensation.
A Jewish teenager from London’s East End, she stormed the charts aged just 14 with Don’t Treat Me Like a Child.
By 1963, she was topping the bill on tour – with The Beatles as her support act! But the real headline in Helen’s life came in 1987 when, aged 40, she gave her life to Jesus.
After years of searching through mediums and spiritists, and questioning if God even existed, Helen read Betrayed by Stan Telchin – a fellow Jew who came to faith in Jesus.
Her eyes were opened.
The 79-year-old recalled: “Isaiah 53 was about how He took our sins… I was gobsmacked.
“Jesus rose up out of the pages to me and I fell in love with him.”
Fearing the New Testament might be “anti-Jewish”, she found instead “the most Jewish thing outside the Old Testament.”
By the end of John’s Gospel, she was convinced: “Jesus is the Jewish Messiah.”
In 1987, Helen committed her life to Christ: “I didn’t get religion. I got Jesus, and I love him.”
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