Author Biography
Eddie Russell FMI is an Officially Commissioned Catholic Evangelist (Canon 300) and an Archdiocesan Acolyte (Subdeacon) living in Perth Western Australia. He has written three books, several seminars, programs, and articles published in many countries. - Translated into German, Portuguese, Croatian, and Slovenian, the first English print edition of this book was a sell out. Eddie is an international speaker who has preached by invitation to over 20 million people around Australia, England, Scotland, St. Lucia, Mexico, USA, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Portugal, Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Uganda. In 2009 Eddie was nominated for the Australian of the Year Award. In 2012 he was invited to join the Oxford University Round Table UK Symposium on Religion and Politics. In March 2013 he was made a member of the Oxford University Round Table in England. Prior to his conversion, Eddie became involved with Eastern Mysticism, Theosophy, and dabbled with the occult when, in 1974, he experienced a profound conversion to Jesus Christ by the direct intervention of God while collapsed and dying on his lawn after a drinking and drug binge. He then began to read the Bible, the writings of the Saints and the Doctors of the Church. He became a devoted witness for the Gospel and, led by Jesus, he joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1976 and experienced the Baptism of the Holy Spirit in 1978 when God stirred him to a deep love for the lost and suffering and a zeal for the salvation of souls through the preaching of the Gospel. In 1990 when he founded Flame Ministries International (a Public Association of Christ's Faithful Canon 301/300) and gave up his career as a top graphic artist as well as his six companies in various commercial areas and committed himself to full time ministry living by divine providence and preaching anywhere in the world wherever there are ears to hear and hearts to accept the truth that Jesus Christ is Lord! - In addition his books have changed lives and many, through reading them have received healing.