When Craig Owen arrived in California from Canada, he took some deliberate steps.

We applied for a birth certificate, went to the library, got a library card.

That gives you two pieces of ID, and the next step is you go down and apply for driver's license.

Once I had that, and I applied for Social Security number.

So that gave me the package of identifications that was needed.

Needed for what?

Well, we'll hear Craig's story on Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

It's Monday, September 30th.

If anyone seemed hopelessly lost, it was Craig Owen. He'd been writing bad checks.

He'd been involved in drive-by shootings and gang wars.

He was a fugitive from the law in two countries.

So when he and his wife Terry showed up at a church where Life Action Ministries was holding a revival summit, he didn't look like a typical churchgoer.

But God met him there in powerful ways.

We'll hear the story this week.

Nancy recorded this interview with Craig and Terry Owen several years ago before Craig passed away. His final battles weren't

with rival gang members, but with cancer. Here's Nancy talking with Terry and Craig Owen.

First of all, you were living in Covington, Indiana at the time, but you were not from Indiana.

You were from Canada. So what were you doing in Indiana? Let's start there.

I had grown up in Toronto, Ontario, as a Canadian, born and raised. I got in a lot of trouble as a youth. It was a street punk, street criminal, and got involved in violent crimes

of armed robberies and weapons and drugs-related stuff.

And subsequent to that, I had been arrested.

I had done prison time for a couple of years and been released.

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