When Everything and More Is Not Enough

Huey Harris owned 15 crack houses in Montgomery, Alabama, and was one of the wealthiest drug dealers in the South before turning his life around to become pastor of his own church and founder of the highly respected "Huey Harris Ministries". He got into the world of drugs at age 12, when his grandmother introduced his first sale of crack cocaine out of her home -- while his mum was in jail. It had a snowball effect for Harris, who was raised in an atmosphere brimming with illegal activity and run-in's with the law. By the time he was 21, he could afford any material object he desired; from exotic cars, to $5,000 nights at the best "Gentleman's Clubs". He was brilliant at business, using merchandisers such as K-Mart as role models. He offered "Specials". He had "free drugs" days provided to regular customers. He marketed crack the way business executives sold shoes and clothes. He had more money than he ever imagined. But secretly was intensely lonely and fell in and out of severe depression. He was angry, though with whom he was not sure. After a particularly wild emotionally violent night, Harris had a vision that would change his life: he had an epiphany and realised he had other work to do on Earth and it no longer involved spending his empty life with drug users, champagne, prostitutes, and gangsters. Huey started a new daily regime of learning and living under a different set of beliefs. He left the drug life, began studying and preaching in Alabama and then moved to Ohio. He preached in back yards, founded a church, and began preaching and teaching in Mega-Churches, on the shows of major televangelists, including The 700 Club, never losing sight of the hurting individuals who need ministry one-on-one.