Nicky Cruz is the top rated writer of eighteen books, including the untouched Christian work of art, Run, Baby, Run, distributed in 1968 and converted into in excess of 40 dialects around the world. It keeps on being a best 10 hit in the United Kingdom, and is required perusing in numerous secondary school educational programs in the UK, Finland, Australia and New Zealand. A full-length Hollywood element film dependent on Nicky's life called A Thousand Pieces is as of now in pre-creation. Screenplay composed by Gregory Anderson (Stomp the Yard), A Thousand Pieces is scheduled for a 2013 dramatic delivery.
Cruz was brought up in Puerto Rico. His folks were intensely associated with Santeria, and all things considered, Nicky was the survivor of rehashed physical maltreatment and dismissal at their hands. While trying to get away from his savage childhood, Nicky fled to New York City during the 50s where he before long became involved with the pack savagery that was clearing the city. Brave and apparently safe to physical torment, Cruz rose through the positions of the infamous Mau pack in Fort Greene, Brooklyn to turn into their War Lord.
Cruz' life was a descending twisting of brutality and brokenness. A court-requested therapist told the court and Nicky that he was "damned… completed… on a single direction outing to prison, the hot seat and damnation." Then one day a thin minister – David Wilkerson – went to the war-torn roads of Brooklyn conveying a message to Nicky – "Jesus cherishes you, Nicky." Cruz took steps to kill the evangelist, however half a month later at a convention at the St. Nicholas Arena in NYC – Cruz gave up his life to God and traded his weapons for a Bible.
For as far back as 50 years, Nicky has been going the world over arriving at a huge number of individuals with his supernatural declaration. His biography has been told in the top rated book, The Cross and the Switchblade, and in the film by a similar title, which featured Pat Boone and Erik Estrada. Cruz keeps on serving in downtown areas, detainment facilities, and arenas specifically addressing many thousands every year.
He is the leader of Nicky Cruz Outreach, and Executive Producer of TRUCE, a worldwide apprenticeship and evangelism service committed to coming to and coaching youngsters. The Wall Street Journal depicted Nicky as the "Billy Graham of the roads."
Moreover, NCO accomplices with Times Square Church in NYC, World Challenge and The Springs Church in long haul alleviation and profound recreation in Haiti.
Nicky is the dad of four girls and eight grandkids. Nicky lives in Colorado Springs with his better half, Gloria.
Nicky was as of late granted the level of Doctor of Divinity by the Latin American Theological Seminary, just as Doctor of Philosophy in Christian Therapy from Dayspring Christian University.