It's going to be challenging for our kids: Mark and Caroline
Mark discusses his unlikely journey from drug addict to minister with wife Caroline.
Mark grew up in Ardrossan in Ayshire surrounded by drugs and crime. He ended up in Barlinnie Prison for the first time aged 19. This is where he first took heroin. It all changed when a former fellow inmate knocked on his door upon his release. 鈥淲hen I got out of prison, I would meet John from time to time in the street. Then one day he arrived at my door and persuaded me to go along to the Baptist Church in Saltcoats with him. It was the first time I had ever heard the Gospel. God came into my life and totally transformed it.鈥 At that moment, Mark felt absolute peace, and realised that he needed to change.
He quit drugs and went back to school to start on the path to becoming a minister for the Church of Scotland. It was at that point that he met Caroline. She grew up in Milngavie, an affluent part of Glasgow, and went to an all-girls school. Her mum was a teacher and her dad was an architect. Their backgrounds couldn't be more different, but they fell in love, got married and had two children together.
Mark's now Minster at Ruchill Kelvinside Parish Church in Glasgow.
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