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Helen Shapiro Christian outreach meeting

October 1, 2008 – 6:50 pm

Sixties star Helen Shapiro will be singing her famous hit, Walking Back to Happiness, at a Christian outreach meeting in Sutherland at the weekend.

Ms Shapiro, 62, who became a committed believer in Jesus in 1987, will be sharing her story at a meeting organised by Dornoch and District Christian Fellowship at Dornoch Academy on Saturday from 7.30pm.

Ms Shapiro, whose other hits included Don’t Treat Me Like a Child, You Don’t Know, and Tell Me What He Said, shot to international stardom at the age of 14, has been going strong ever since.

She is a highly-respected jazz singer, has been in demand as a panto principal boy and appeared in many stage musicals.

She yesterday said that, in 1987, she spent several months searching the Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament, and seeing their fulfilment in the New Testament, which resulted in her believing in Jesus as Saviour of the world and the promised Messiah of her own Jewish people.

She devoted herself solely to her gospel outreaches when she came out of showbusiness at the end of 2002, after 42 years of touring.

And she now travels throughout the UK and to other parts of the world in response to invitations from churches and other Christian groups.

“I do it to reach out to others with the gospel, which means good news, to challenge them and to see what kind of response they want to give to that.

“I’m very glad I’m coming up there as I love that part of the world. I’ve been to Inverness, but that’s the furthest north I’ve got.

“I’m really looking forward to coming up to Dornoch. I just wish I had more time there as I’m coming up on Friday and going back on Sunday,” said Ms Shapiro, who lives in London.

“I will be singing Walking Back to Happiness, which is part of my story. The other songs have more or a spiritual bias to them,” said Ms Shapiro.

She has produced two gospel albums, The Pearl and Kadosh – meaning Holy, which both proved very popular.

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