Investment banker and philanthropist John Studzinski began his charitable life at the tender age of six when he opened a soup kitchen with his Catholic mother. She had been a nurse during WW2 and as he says in this interview it is sometimes easier to meet Christ 'in service', especially as a child.

He went on to work in banking, becoming one of the first practising Catholics to enter Morgan Stanley. He is now vice-chairman of global investment firm PIMCO as well as founder and chairman of the Genesis Foundation, supporting artists in their careers. His charitable work has led him to work with the last four Popes.

He's a firm believer that time and not money is the greatest gift we have and his new book A Talent for Giving about entrepreneurial philanthropy is available this September.

In this episode of The Profile he talks to Premier Christianity Editor Sam Hailes about his early life, his near death experience aged just 31 and how we can use money to bless other people.

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When Jeremy Stalnecker fulfilled his childhood dream of joining the Marines he thought he had it made. He had grown up in southern California into a Christian family and his father was a pastor. Despite an early biblical grounding he did not see ministry as part of his future.

After he joined the Marines Corps he served in the first invasion of Iraq - Operation Iraqi Freedom - first as a rifle platoon commander in a helicopter company and then as the platoon commander.

But when he returned home he became aware he was suffering from trauma and was diagnosed with PTSD. He soon realised he wasn't the only one.

He felt a call to the ministry and like his father he went on to become a pastor. He now runs the Mighty Oaks Foundation which help men and women who have served in the military deal and ultimately recover from experiences that have led them to suffer with PTSD themselves.

In this episode of The Profile he talks to Premier Christianity Magazine Editor Sam Hailes about trauma and what it can do to the body as well as the mind, whether, even in war, it's ever ok to take a life if you're a Christian and the healing that can come from having a life tied to Jesus no matter what you've been through.

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85-year-old Alexander 'Sandy' Millar is best known as co-founder of the worldwide introduction course to Christianity known as 'Alpha'.

Though thoughts of being a clergyman were far from his mind when he was child. GHe grew up in Scotland during the second world war with a father who was a Major General. He went to boarding school and onto Cambridge eventually fulfilling his dream of becoming a criminal barrister.

He says he was brought up Christian and prayed everyday though it was later at the age of 27 during a weekend away with his soon-to-be-wife that he experienced the Holy Spirit and the 'assurance' of God's presence. He says this is the time he really became a Christian.

Despite a successful career in law he felt a pull towards the ministry and went onto play a pivotal role in the influential evangelical church Holy Trinity Brompton in Kensington, London where he became vicar in 1985. The church became a hub in the 90s for evangelical Christianity.

Later with Nicky Gumbel he co-founded Alpha which is now in 100 countries, including prisons and has reached 24 million people with the story of Jesus Christ to people who have no faith or those who are just curious, though originally, it started as a course for young Christians.

In this episode of The Profile he talks to Premier Christianity Magazine's Tony Wilson about his early life, the beginnings of Alpha and the plan that God has had for him.

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