The
Conversion of Kirk Cameron:
I was rich, I was young, I was famous, I could do just anything with whomever I''d
have wanted to. BellFlower, CA-
At a certain point of his career, Kirk Cameron, sitcom star, started to get concerned about something that his money could not buy: " Salvation".
He had gotten millions of fans in the world, he was adored like an idol. But he felt empty. And so Kirk has reached his new public in these days through a show he made, aired on an American Christian Network
"I did not go to church. I never prayed - I did not even know how to do it....Should I keep my eyes open or closed? Should I look above or down?
Should I knee down? What should I have done?"
The success of his most popular character, Mike Seaver of Parents in Blue Jeans, was crashing him down, once on the set of the series he found himself fighting about a script of uncertain morality; so when the show was cancelled he started to accept roles in films having a low budget but featuring characters with a strong morality. Then arrived the time of the meeting with that weird person, all American, who is Ray Comfort, a surfer who had such a
conversion to bring him to get the priest vows. Exploiting the popularity of Cameron, they have put togheter a small multimedial empire with the aim to communicate a simple message: "Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior or you won''t enter the Heaven".
Cameron is now 36 years old, he got married with 6 children, 4 of which were adopted; his priorities are: God, the family and his career, exactly in this order. He actually admit that he would like to make non-religious movies but he thinks it is difficult to convince producers that he hasn''t lost his humor, since he found Jesus.