Popular HGTV host Page Turner recently shared how her faith has played a role in her career as a home renovator and real estate broker.
"It speaks to where we can find our lives sometimes," Turner told CBN's Faithwire regarding her HGTV show Fix My Flip. The show's second season is now available. "I've been in a stuck place before. … I just needed a helping hand, just somebody to show me the way, just a bridge to get across."
"I'd dug holes for myself, and I just need[ed] help," she continued. "That's what surrender is."
Growing up in Southern California, Turner was raised by an agnostic mother who adhered to New Age beliefs in the 1960s. She told the outlet that she gave her life to Christ when she was 19 years old after her friend invited her to church.
"I went Friday night three nights in a row and, that third Friday night, I gave my life to the Lord," she explained. "[I was] still unclear, not sure what that meant, but I knew that I had peace that I felt in that little, old, white-steeple church on the corner of La Brea and Adams, out here in Los Angeles … and I never turned back after I had that experience with God. I remember it so clearly."
In the first episode of the second season of Fix My Flip, Turner meets with the father-daughter duo Juan and Allison. At the time, Allison was angry and took her frustration out on Turner.
"When I first got there, she was hard to deal with," Turner said of Allison. "[W]hen we were done with [a] scene, I took her outside, and I said, 'Can I talk to you? I know we just met, like, yesterday.' And cameras are all around, and that's already intimidating enough. … And I said, 'What else is going on? Because you are really upset, and it couldn't just be toward me, because you invited me here.'"
"She broke down and cried," the HGTV host recalled, "and we prayed right there on the sidewalk, in front of all the people that have their own beliefs. We prayed right there and, after we prayed, I said, 'Now, get it together so you don't look crazy on national TV anymore, and let's go back in.'"
Turner said Allison reached a breakthrough following the "prayer and because she was willing to yield to trust the Holy Spirit was in me."
Overall, Turner says she now recognizes her show as an opportunity for "ministry."
"I speak like this all the time," she said. "People know that I'm a warrior for Christ. And sometimes, I'm just tired, like, 'Lord, this war is hard to fight. Can I get a break? I just wanna go on vacation from the fight.'… But my faith doesn't get challenged; my response to the attacks is what is challenging — and me having to throw my faith back on top of it, like being able to recognize the spirit behind the man or woman that is, sometimes, full-out assaulting me spirit-wise … in this very secular world.
"My faith is what's kept me grounded," Turner continued, "with my blinders on and my eyes toward Christ at all times."
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Milton Quintanilla is a freelance writer and content creator. He is a contributing writer for CrosswalkHeadlines and the host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast devoted to sound doctrine and biblical truth. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary.
