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"As a young child I grew up with a father who was often drunk and aggressive. At the age when most kids need their father the most, in their teenage years, my dad drank some acid and suicided.

Without a dad and with emotions of both betrayal and anger, yet grief for what had happened, I began to be led astray by wrong friends. From the age of 14 to 29 I was in and out of boys homes and Jail. Four years ago after coming out of jail I was about to take my life.

Whilst passing Flinders Street Station (Melbourne) I heard some worship music and preaching and I gave my life to the Lord. I have now been a regular each Friday night since that night and have grown in my walk with the Lord.

Two years ago my Step dad died at an early age of a Heart attack. I again felt a sense of rejection and abandonment with his death. Having never really dealt with the rejection and self hatred that I still had repressed deep down, on a number of times I cut myself to gain attention and to hurt myself.

On another occasion I set fire to myself and miraculously I was helped by neighbours and survived. The doctors still can't believe how I survived.

After much love and prayer I have now become aware of my true position in Christ, loved, forgiven and that I have a purpose and destiny in life. I am now doing landscape gardening for a job."

Mark came to a new life in Christ through the work of 'Church of Hope", a marketplace ministry on the streets of Melbourne. Conrad Fenton, founder of Church of Hope, comments: "For the last two years Mark has been an inspiration to our ministry team and to his mum. Mark is a man who is a living testimony that there is a God who loves, saves heals, protects and perseveres with us and who desires us to have abundant life in Him.

Click here to find out more about Church of Hope.

National Marriage Forum
Great Hall, Parliament House, Canberra
August 4, 0930-1700
Speakers include:
Prof Patrick Parkinson, Sydney University
Associate Prof Tom Altobelli, Uni of Western Sydney
Prime Minister, Hon John Howard and Leader of the Opposition, Mr Mark Latham have been invited to address the forum.
Angela Shanahan, Journalist Sunday Telegraph
Bill Muehlenberg, National Marriage Coalition
Jim Wallace, Australian Christian Lobby
Mary Louise Fowler, Australian Family Association
Phone: 02 62590431
info@marriage.org.au 

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