I don’t know if he was scared, but he seemed as cool as a cucumber and announced his faith in Jesus. He was my hero and he’d come back with these stories of what he’d been up to, while we’re told to sit and be quiet, so the crime was glorified to me. Born in Clapham, the youngest of 6 siblings, Claud grew up in the shadow of domestic violence, with a London-born mum and an abusive and controlling Jamaican dad.

In working with them, he recognised many of his own struggles as a young adult with issues of identity, self-worth, confidence, and need to belong, and the urgent need for positive role models. Now 21 years old, Claud and his mum were forced to live off bread, milk, tea, and potatoes – until his drug dealing business started bringing in more money again. In desperation, he prayed to God to get him out of the situation – and was surprised to be released home the next day while his friend went to prison. No one else could get the guys to co-operate, but the more time I spent with them, the more I found myself relating to some of the individuals. An efficient and organised person is required to assist the Secretary of the Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches in providing advice to the diocese and parishes on church buildings and their contents and to administer the inspection scheme for churches within the Diocese of Chester.One by one, we all had to take turns in an “ice-breaker”, which consisted of each of us standing up to introduce ourselves and share something that no one else knew about us. Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U. From growing up in an abusive home to falling into crime and later finding Jesus, my journey has been a colourful one… I know that the Lord can use everything that has happened to me for his glory and that he has a plan and purpose for my life and for yours. When they started to question me on this occasion, it soon came up that I was a mentor for high-risk young offenders with the local council. Claud’s passion for football and his natural talent led to him being invited for a trial at Wimbledon football club at the age of 13.

He became entrapped in a life of drug dealing, credit card fraud, and greed, with frequent run-ins with the police. At twelve years old, James Carroll became the collateral damage of his pastor father's infidelity and his parents' divorce.He really looked forward to the sessions and, one evening, ‘my heart dared Jesus to come into my life and make a change’, giving him a sense of deep joy and peace. Everybody nervously took their turn, and, as they did, I realised that I was waiting for Pete to have his go. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. My dad was a very old school – thought women should be in the kitchen, cooking, cleaning, looking after the house.