Anger at his family’s financial struggles led Shawky to violence and drinking. Until one night, in a drunken haze, he drove the family truck over a cliff edge.
Shawky (not his real name), a member of the Berber community in mountainous northern Algeria, recently appeared on Free Souls, a testimony programme screened on Middle East Christian TV network, SAT-7.
Financial trouble
Shawky described his feelings of despair as he watched his large family struggle financially from year to year. He heard some workers in his brother’s field talk about the hope they had found in Jesus Christ, but their words fell on deaf ears.
