FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS

(See also Interviews [Feature in Awake!]; Life Stories of Jehovah’s Witnesses)

(Note centered headings below: List by Name; List by Title)

List by Name

Adams, Cindy: g97 8/22 30; g96 11/8 10-13

Anderson, Ralph: g86 8/22 11-13

Andreopoulos, Deborah: g01 3/22 30; g00 7/22 9-13

Arias, Julián: w03 7/1 21-25

Atwell, Lydia Francis: g90 12/22 25-27

Augustin, Hans: g92 4/22 21-24

Beaderstadt, Steven and Bonnie: g88 4/22 11-15

Bjørndal, Mia: g95 2/22 20-22

Boddy, Rose Marie: g95 7/8 12-15

Bruhn, Cecil W.: g96 5/8 11-14

Caccarile, Albert: g88 12/8 20-23

Chávez Serna, Martha: g 8/06 30; g05 6/22 26-27

Civin, Les: g 8/10 10-11

Cordaway, Lee: g97 9/8 30; g96 11/22 11-14

Cournane, Bruce: g93 3/8 15-19

Cox, William: g87 2/22 28; g86 10/22 12-16

Davenport, Lisa: g91 11/22 16-20

Dello Stritto, Ada: w10 4/15 16-19

Deskins, Bonnie: g89 10/22 11-15

de Urbina, Antonieta: g87 11/8 21-23

Dillon, Dale T.: g90 1/8 18-21

Evaldsson, Anne-Marie: g98 2/8 29; g97 4/22 26-27

Field, Anna: g86 2/8 10-13

Forbes, Heather: g04 4/8 14-15

Gaitán, Esther: g05 10/22 20-21

Garatziotis, Jimmy: g00 5/22 30; g99 10/22 12-14

Garcia, Nonato and Carmen: g96 5/22 22-23

Giarrano, James: g01 7/22 19-23

Griswold, Gillett: g93 4/22 9-13

Herd, Cindy: g99 9/22 20-23

Hernández, Ricardo: w88 6/15 21-23

Holland, Marc: g01 8/8 22-25

Honis, Bob: g89 10/8 7-9

Hooks, Nina: g91 9/22 20-22

Jesuspret, Stephane: g93 5/22 21-24

Kani, Enmarie: g 8/12 10-12

Kanstul, Robin: g90 5/8 20-24; g90 8/22 30

Karlinsky, Leanne: g00 5/8 12-13

Kin Keung: g91 11/8 4-5

Kinoshita, Rie: g91 2/8 30; g90 10/22 20-23

Kunc, Petr: g97 5/8 30; g96 8/22 21-23

Kushnick, Samuel: g86 5/8 18-20

Leibensperger, Bethel: g90 4/22 21-24; g90 7/22 30

Maiga, Sarah: w15 10/15 28-29

Mailyn: g05 3/8 30; g04 5/22 25-27

Major, Rosie: g00 8/8 30; g99 11/22 18-20

Marshall, Janelle: g02 7/22 19-23

Martín, Darío: g96 11/8 18-21

Meintsma, Jack: g05 5/8 30; g04 7/22 19-23

Miller, Oscar Sam: g86 12/22 16-19

Newell, Cynthia: g 3/09 22-23

Niwa, Toshiaki: g04 9/8 31; g03 8/8 30; g02 12/8 18-21

Ombeva, Stanley: w06 5/1 15; g04 1/8 30; g04 1/22 30; g03 4/22 18-21

Omiegbe, J. B.: w94 11/15 6-7

Orf, Karen: g98 6/8 27; g97 9/8 21-23

Peacock, Winston: g86 1/8 16-19

Polotti, Ruggero: w89 8/1 30-31

Powers, Sully: g92 11/22 22-24

Roberson, Kathy: g95 6/22 20-21; g94 8/22 19-24

Robinson, David: w89 6/1 25-27

Rousseas, Elias: g86 6/22 5-10

Salay, Tanya: g01 3/8 18-20

Schulz, Peter and Sue: g92 1/8 9-13

Seymour, Colin: w97 6/15 26-29

Sievers, Sven: g98 1/22 13-15

Smith, Patricia: w13 5/15 24-25

Spry, Major: g92 10/22 12-15

Sterrett, Bette E.: g88 7/8 19-21

Strachan, Doreen: g92 10/8 20-21

Tabery, Christine: g93 1/22 18-21

Uwasi, Mercy: g94 5/8 12-14

Vander Velde, Nancy: g98 3/8 26-27

Velásquez López, Siomara: g90 12/8 17-19

Vila Cao, Pilar: g90 7/8 14-15

Vila Ugarte, Samuel: g96 6/22 26-27

Vincent, Donald: g91 11/8 8-9

Westergaard, Lars and Judith: g00 5/22 20-23

White, Roger: g89 11/8 14-16

White, Sandra: g90 6/22 12-15; g90 9/8 30

Wieck, Wilhelm: g87 10/8 10-14

Wilkins, Lorne: g97 10/8 30; g96 12/22 26-27

Wood, Tony: g90 9/22 24-25

Yipsiotis, Ann: g95 12/22 25-27

Young, David: g86 1/22 26-27

List by Title

2011 Japan Tsunami, The—Survivors Tell Their Stories: g 12/11 14-20

Although Refugees, Happy to Be Serving God: w94 10/15 8-11

“Armero Has Disappeared From the Map!”: g86 5/8 10-15

“At the River Coco, Turn Right”: w08 9/1 16-17

“Cancer—I Am Beating It”: g86 10/8 14-15

Child’s Faith, A: g 8/06 26-27

Comfort for the Repentant: g86 8/22 21-22

Coping With an Unspeakable Tragedy: g02 3/8 30; g01 7/22 19-23

Coping with Trials Strengthened Our Trust in Jehovah: w10 4/15 16-19

Coral Reef in the Clouds, A: w10 3/1 16-17

Day at the Beach, A: w10 9/1 16-17

Day in My Life in Crowded Hong Kong, A: g91 11/8 4-5

Day the Black Belt Came Untied, The: w08 12/1 24-25

Day the Twin Towers Collapsed, The: g02 1/8 3-7

Demons Controlled Me, The: g86 8/22 11-13

Determined to Achieve My Goal: g 8/06 30; g05 6/22 26-27

Disabled—Yet Able to Drive: g96 5/8 11-14

Doctors Learned From My Near Death: g95 12/22 25-27

Doctors Tried to Take Our Daughter Away: g90 4/22 30; g90 5/8 30; g89 10/22 11-15

“Does Jehovah Love Us Even Though We Are Indians?”: w11 3/1 24-25

“Don’t Do Anything Stupid, or I’ll Kill You”: g91 11/22 16-20

Drawing Near to God Has Been Good for Me: w15 10/15 28-29

“Drugs? Just Shake Hands With Satan!”: g90 11/8 25

Enjoy Them in Safety (national parks): g89 6/22 5-8

‘Even the Tongue of Stammerers Will Speak’: g97 5/8 30; g96 8/22 21-23

Exploring Earth’s Last Great Frontier: g86 12/22 16-19

Face-to-Face With Lowland Gorillas: g 10/12 12, 14

Facing a Medical Emergency: g96 6/22 26-27

Faith Helped Me Face Brain Surgery: g90 4/22 21-24; g90 7/22 30

Finding Freedom on “The Island of Lonely Men”: w89 6/1 25-27

Four Hundred Died, I Survived: g87 11/8 21-23

From a Quiet World: g88 7/8 19-21

From Deadly Mission to Peaceful Pursuit: g04 9/8 31; g03 8/8 30; g02 12/8 18-21

From the Brink of Death: g88 4/22 11-15

From the Road to Death to the Road to Life: w89 8/1 30-31

Fruitful Land of the Venda, The: w99 5/1 26-27

Glimpse of Nepal’s Treasured Animals, A: g88 9/22 24-27

Growing Up in an African City: g91 11/8 8-9

Hijacked to Malta—But I Survived: g86 6/22 5-10

Horses Were My Life: g93 5/22 21-24

How an Injury Changed My Life: w06 5/1 15; g04 1/8 30; g04 1/22 30; g03 4/22 18-21

How I Cope With Stuttering: g98 1/22 13-15

How I Live With Lupus: g90 5/8 20-24; g90 8/22 30

How Our Family Was Reunited: g00 5/22 20-23

I Climbed a Mighty Monolith: g89 3/8 14-17

“I Feel So Very Privileged”: w10 12/1 15-17

If I Lost Weight, Anybody Can!: g93 1/22 12-14

“I Have Never Felt Such Love”: w08 3/1 24-25

I Learned How Precious Life Is: w08 9/1 30

I Live With Muscular Dystrophy: g90 1/8 18-21; g90 8/8 30

“I’ll Sit and Read It by the Campfire Tonight”: w08 6/1 16-17

I Lost My Unborn Baby: g02 3/22 20-22; g02 11/8 30

In the Shadow of the Mountain of Fire: w11 9/1 24-25

I Quit Worshiping the Dead: w94 11/15 6-7

I Survived Flight 801: g98 3/22 23-25

I Survived the Sinking of the Bismarck: g87 10/8 10-14

‘It’s Only Temporary!’—My Life With Kidney Disease: g97 9/8 30; g96 11/22 11-14

It Sounded Like Beautiful Music: w11 6/1 24-25

I Wanted to See for Myself (Bible manuscripts): g88 7/22 19-23

I Was a Hostage: g90 12/8 17-19

I Won My Battle With Postpartum Depression: g02 7/22 19-23

Jangadas—Brazil’s Unusual Sailing Crafts: g02 3/8 24-25

Jealousy Nearly Ruined My Life: w95 9/15 5-6

Land of the Watchtowers—Mountainous Svaneti: g 6/11 16-18

Lawyer Examines Jehovah’s Witnesses, A: g 8/10 10-11

Little Sammy Died of AIDS!: g86 5/8 18-20

Living With Cystic Fibrosis: g00 5/22 30; g00 6/8 30; g99 10/22 12-14

Living With Down’s Syndrome: g89 8/8 17-20; g89 11/22 30

Living With Parkinson’s Disease: g88 1/8 12-15

Loida’s Journey out of Silence: g01 1/8 19; g00 5/8 22-24

Lost for Over 20 Years: g88 12/8 20-23

Maggy’s Ordeal and My Blessing: g97 10/8 30; g96 12/22 26-27

Maintaining Christian Integrity in War-Torn Liberia: w92 1/1 27-31

Making a Diligent Search: w09 3/1 18-19

Massacre at Luby’s Cafeteria, The: g92 11/22 22-24

Most Unusual Artist, A: g86 1/22 26-27

Mount Sinai—A Jewel in the Wilderness: g99 4/22 16-19

My African Safari: g87 9/22 5-11

My Agony on Flight 232: g90 12/22 25-27

My Best Vacation Ever!: w12 6/1 24-25

My Dear Friend: g96 2/22 26-27; g96 11/22 30; g96 12/8 30

My Fight to Live: g92 4/22 21-24

My Fight With Scleroderma: g01 8/8 22-25

My Little Pink Book: g 3/09 22-23

My Reflections as a Military Historian: g95 3/8 30; g93 4/22 9-13

My Struggle to Cope With RSD: g98 6/8 27; g98 7/8 32; g97 9/8 21-23

My Struggle With a Debilitating Illness: g01 3/8 18-20

My Struggle With Endometriosis: g01 3/22 30; g00 7/22 9-13

Neither Magicians nor Gods (blood transfusion case): g95 3/8 30; g94 5/8 12-14

“Never Say Never!”: g91 9/22 20-22

New Face for Mailyn, A: g05 3/8 30; g04 5/22 25-27

Not Alone When Our Faith Was Tested: w01 4/15 14-16

Not Even an Iron Lung Could Stop Her Preaching: g93 1/22 18-21; g93 7/8 30

“Now It Is Only Mia and Jehovah”: g96 1/22 30; g95 2/22 20-22

“Now You Are Going to Die!”: g86 5/22 22-24

“Once Stricken, Twice Afflicted”: g05 5/8 30; g04 7/22 19-23

On Safari in Ghana: g01 5/8 14-17

Our Little Linda’s Defective Heart: g86 4/8 18-20

Preaching in Europe’s Southernmost Frontier: w12 9/1 24-25

Raising Sheep Is Our Business: g93 3/8 15-19

Reader’s Response to an Awake! Article, A (caring for elderly mother): g90 2/8 16-17

Rescued From Near Death by Nonblood Treatment: g92 10/22 12-15

Return Visit to Russia, A: g95 2/22 23-27

Salt Seekers of the Sahara: g 1/09 21-23

Serving Others Alleviates Suffering: w03 7/1 21-25

She Reached Her Goal: g88 1/22 22-23

She Remains Resilient Through Personal Tragedy: ijwex article 19

Silent Voice That Can Be Heard, A: g 10/08 18-21

Small Bodies, Big Hearts: w00 2/15 8-9

Something Worse Than AIDS: g89 4/22 12-14; g89 8/22 30; g89 9/22 30; g89 10/8 30

Teaching Kristi to Love God: g04 4/8 14-15

“Tears of Appreciation”: w90 12/1 31

Terror on Flight 811: g89 11/8 14-16

‘Thank You for Bringing Me Home, Mom’: g96 3/8 30; g95 7/8 12-15

“They Told Me I Would Never Walk Again!”: g90 8/22 21-24

They Were Convinced of Jehovah’s Love: w88 6/15 21-23

Thirty Years of Love and Devotion: g86 2/8 10-13

To Reach My Child, I Learned Another Language: g97 8/22 30; g96 11/8 10-13

Tragic Saturday That Shattered My Family, A: g87 2/22 28; g86 10/22 12-16

Treasure Hunting in the Golden Mountains of Altay: w12 3/1 24-25

Trip Into the Past, A: w09 12/1 18-19

Under Pressure and Fighting to Live: g92 10/8 20-21

Unusual Job, An—But I Love It: g02 12/22 9-11

Very Important Appointment, A: w08 3/15 19-20

Visiting Our Home Missionary Field: w97 6/15 26-29

Visit to an Exotic Garden, A: g99 11/8 15-18

Visit to a Vast White Wilderness, A: w11 12/1 14-15

War—Coping With the Aftermath: g89 10/8 7-9

We Are Inseparable Friends (Witness and guide dog): g98 2/8 29; g97 4/22 26-27

We Felt God’s Strengthening Aid: g05 10/22 20-21

We Fled From Bombs—50 Years Later!: g98 3/8 26-27

We Have Learned to Live With Epilepsy: g90 6/22 12-15; g90 9/8 30

We Learned to Rely on God Through Adversity: g00 7/22 30; g00 8/8 30; g99 11/22 18-20

We Survived a Murderer’s Bomb: g92 1/8 9-13

We Were Hostages During a Prison Uprising: g97 8/22 30; g96 11/8 18-21

We Were Rescued From a Lahar!: g97 2/22 30; g96 5/22 22-23

We Were “Witches” Fighting Bulls: g90 7/8 14-15

What Did I Get Myself Into?: w12 12/1 22-23

What We Learned From Andrew (Down’s syndrome): g95 12/8 11-13

When Cancer Is Kept a Secret: g91 2/8 30; g90 10/22 20-23

When Life Is Not Easy: g95 1/22 30; g95 6/22 20-21; g94 8/22 19-24

Where Money Walks on Four Legs: g 8/12 10-12

Who Answers Your Call for Help?: g 4/09 12-14

Why He Changed His Priorities: g97 4/22 30; g96 7/22 15-18

Why I Crashed and Flew Again: g91 3/8 14-16

Why Our Lives Have Meaning (LMBB Syndrome): w13 5/15 24-25

“Why Would Anyone Stop Here?”: w10 6/1 16-17

Widening Out to Help Others: g90 9/22 24-25

“Will I Ever Walk Again?”: g86 1/8 16-19

“You Are Going to Die!”: g00 5/8 12-13

“Your Daughter Has Diabetes!”: g99 9/22 20-23