Lynette Leitch

From a fatherless childhood in cold, dusty old churches, where Mass was celebrated in Latin, and a stern and distant God spouted rules and regulations, Lynette left home at 18 with her fingers in her ears determined to enjoy life and not look back. After an initial career in banking, she spent nine years working in the music industry before joining British Airways as a Stewardess on 747s. This leg of her journey would take her all over the world, leaving her with one failed marriage, a dog-earred passport, a feeling that she’d done it all and got the t-shirt, yet a life with no anchor and little substance.

Then God entered the scene -  A live-in relationship with a boyfriend twelve years her junior culminated in a pregnancy, the birth of her first and only son, and the menopause at forty years of age. Suddenly receptive to an inexplicable longing inside, in her own words she " bought a return ticket back to God, and with fingers nowhere near her ears, and set off to find the Giver of Life."

Within a year, she was married to her partner, and had  a precious and much-loved child . Her husband followed her Chrisitan commitment eighteen months later, and they actively embraced their faith together.

One night, their son, then twelve, asked his dad to pray for him, as he had a headache. Within twelve hours, he was on a life-support machine and three lives would never be the same again.

Lynette’s prodigal trek back to a Father God , and the ultimate testing of her faith during the terminal illness and death of her only son weeks before his fourteenth birthday, is one littered with incomparable joy and excruciating agony. But test her faith it did, and prove it to be founded totally in God.

Only God can bring forth blessings from such tragedy. Only God can heal lives in pain and reach out to others through that pain. From the ashes, and in faith. A vision took shape that would affect thousands more lives and prove that love is indeed infinite.

Lynette has written a book telling her son’s story, in the hope it will help others in similar situations. She has co-written a book about one woman’s courageous escape from 34 years of domestic abuse. She now runs a registered charity with her husband that funds holidays for families facing life-limiting illness, as well as running their own publishing company and working on new writing projects.

Lynette is available for talks on living with terminal illness, the loss of a child and her faith in all of that,  dealing with Alzheimers within the family, and nutrition – the strategic part it plays in our lives, and the building blocks we can put in place to combat serious illness.  She also interviews a Christian survivor of domestic abuse to encourage victims that there is life away from abuse and it can be a life of safety and hope.