A formerly religious man who lost his mother to cancer at the age of 22 said he developed a bitterness towards God.
Although Jeff accepted Christ as a young boy, he blamed the Lord for taking her life away.
He became a police officer and started to excessively drink to fill the void.
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Although happily married, Jeff suffered from depression up until his life changed forever in 2014.
In April of that year, he was involved in a life-threatening car crash and went through several surgeries in ICU.
During that time, Jeff said his heart stopped and visited 'heaven and hell'.
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“I felt my soul leave my body and I remember seeing darkness," he recalled to 700 Club Interactive.
"And also fog on the floor, and on the ceilings. I went to a place where there was a black void.
"And I remember crying out to Jesus, ‘Jesus help me!’”
During his visions, he witnessed an image of a young version of his mother, who was washing her arm.
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Jeff claims that this 'symbolised washing' and meant that he needed to 'for me to get clean up my act'.
After the near-death experience, he quit drinking and started to believe in God again.
He and his wife now run JNS Ministries and plan to open Galilean Fishing Lodge.
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Jeff said: "The alcohol contributed immensely, so to my chronic depression. I was a binge drinker. I used to keep a bottle of tequila in the in the fridge. I would put it in the freezer so I wouldn't have to waste time with a shot glass. One time, I drank so much that I blacked out in the back of my house, in my utility room, and when I woke up, I didn't know where I was in my own home."
His wife added: "I was always fearful for Jeff's safety when he was drinking, especially I didn't want him to be in an accident and I didn't want him to be somewhere where he was just passed out and not able to take care of himself.
"I never stopped praying for Jeff. I knew that he could be better than the alcoholism and the man that he was becoming. I knew he was better than that."
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On the car accident, he added: "It honestly sounded like an explosion. I blacked out. I vaguely remember hearing the car skidding."
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Anish Vij