When the former drug addict and biker thug, Sam Childers, (along with his former stripper wife) got a hold of some old-time religion, he became an unlikely hero to over a thousand children in war-torn Sudan.

The gun-toting, motorcycle-riding preacher, is now the subject of the new movie "Machine Gun Preacher" starring Gerard Butler.

As told in the film, Childers travels to Sudan with a church group in the late 1990s. When he meets children whose homes have been razed, parents killed and siblings abducted, Childers decides to help in any way he can.

(READ the story from the Daily Caller)