Gary Witherall (N/A – N/A) is a British preacher and missionary whose ministry with Operation Mobilization has spanned over three decades, marked by a dramatic testimony of forgiveness following personal tragedy. Born in Crawley, England, to a nominally Christian family, specific details about his parents and early upbringing are not widely documented. He experienced a transformative conversion at age 17 after surviving a near-fatal motorbike accident, later studying world missions at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago from 1991 to 1995, where he met his first wife, Bonnie Penner. Witherall’s preaching career began with Operation Mobilization (OM) in 1987, serving on the Logos ship for four years, followed by missionary work in Lebanon starting in 2001 with Bonnie. There, he preached at a local church while she served at a prenatal clinic until her murder by a gunman on November 21, 2002—an event that led Gary to publicly forgive the killer on Lebanese television, a sermon of grace that resonated globally. Now based in Germany, he leads short-term mission trips in the Mediterranean and ministers to Syrian refugees, continuing to preach hope and surrender through OM and his book Total Abandon (2005). Married twice—first to Bonnie Penner in 1997 until her death, then to Helena in 2004, with whom he has four children—he remains active in cross-cultural evangelism.