Yvonne Pointer’s daughter, Gloria, was brutally murdered on her way to school. Gloria was just 14. Despite the horror, Yvonne never gave up hope. Gloria’s death gave her a calling she didn’t ask for. Yvonne spent the next 29 years being the voice victims of violent crimes needed to hear.

When the pain was unbearable, she prayed for God to take her. “I no longer have a reason to live,” she said. God told her, “I will be your reason” and led her to the song, “You are my reason for living.”

After 29 years, police finally found the man who killed her daughter. When she visited him in prison, he wept and begged to die. Yvonne sang him the song that gave her hope.