Patrick Higgins is the author of "The Pelican Trees", "Coffee in Manila", the two-time award-winning "The Unannounced Christmas Visitor", and the award-winning prophetic end times series, "Chaos in the Blink of an Eye."

Higgins was raised in the Catholic Church. Growing up, he had all the “religion” he could handle. What he didn’t have was God’s eternal assurance. He believed in Jesus, but was also taught to believe in Mary, not to mention the many saints countless Catholics were encouraged to pray to. This would explain his utter confusion regarding the afterlife and his lack of intimacy with God. Bottom line: he was spiritually blinded to the true Gospel of Jesus Christ without even knowing it.

Despite that he attended Mass and Catechism classes most Sundays (was even briefly an altar boy with his twin brother), was baptized as an infant into the Catholic Church, confessed his sins to Catholic priests, recited countless “Our Father’s” and “Hail Mary’s”, said rosaries, and performed many other so-called “good works”, Higgins never felt a sustained closeness to the One who made him, only occasional spurts. Even more telling, in all his years in the Catholic Church, no one ever encouraged him to read the Word of God for himself.

Everything changed in 1991 when Higgins was out walking one day. He came upon a Catholic Church. Instead of going inside, he looked skyward and talked to God in the empty church parking lot. He felt this undeniable stirring in his spirit that day, and asked God to make Himself known to him. It was the beginning of a total life-transformation for him. With his spiritual eyes and ears opened, for the first time in his life, Higgins started hungering and thirsting for the Word of God.

Confronted by his hopeless sin condition, he repented before a just and Holy God and received Christ (and Christ alone) as Lord and Savior. By far, it was the greatest day of his life. With his sins forgiven, Higgins yearned to draw even closer to his Maker. The more he read the Bible, the more he saw the undeniable vast discrepancies between the Catholic Church and the Word of God. So vast were they that Higgins ultimately left the Church.

Higgins longs to reach out to Catholics everywhere (including in the Philippines where God called him to preach more than a decade ago), and share the true Gospel with them, so they too can have eternal assurance through Christ Jesus. There is no other way!

While the stories Higgins writes all have different themes and take place in different settings, the one thread that links them all together is his heart for Jesus and for the lost. With that in mind, it is his wish that the Gospel message his stories convey will greatly challenge you not only to contemplate life this side of the grave, but on the other side as well.

Higgins is currently writing many other books, both fiction and non-fiction, including a sequel to "Coffee in Manila", which will shine a bright, sobering spotlight on the diabolical human trafficking industry.

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