Early life in care and unrest

Mez recounts being born in Donegal, time in a Catholic children’s home and chaotic foster placements.

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A rough childhood spent in numerous foster homes led to drug addiction to crime to maximum security prison, but Mez McConnell’s extraordinary story shows that nobody is beyond hope. He’s been planting churches now for the last two decades in the toughest parts of Scotland and seeing long-term costly transformation. Get ready to be very challenged, inspired and stirred. What a listen!

▶️ Watch this episode as a video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/g1NLoTuQoXI

For those wanting to hear more, we did a bonus Part 2 which you can watch here today, or listen on this channel tomorrow.

Check out: 20schemes.com

Of all Mez’s books, if you want to engage with poverty and church-planting in the UK, go for The Least, The Last and The Lost: Understanding Poverty in the UK and the Responsibility of the Local Church

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