EX-Drug abuser, bodybuilder and ex-doorman.

"At the age of 11 I started doing weights, I wasn't that good at other sports and my brother said give the weights a try. Well a couple of my friends and myself started and I found out that I was pretty good at them. By the age of 18 I was doing power lifting events, the problem was I also started taking steroids. I knew lots of ones on them and thought that this was the answer to being STRONGER and BIGGER.

Soon I was competing in bodybuilding competitions and winning. I was getting noticed walking down the street, you seemed to become more popular as a result. At this stage I started taking other drugs, well my view at the time was take one drug(steroids) , you can take others with no problems, remember I thought I could put anything I wanted into my body with no side effects. How wrong I was.

Just before I started door work I met Carol, the lady who later became my wife and gave me two awesome children. I started the door work and with this a different side to me formed, violence became a part of me, you were getting attention from woman (lots) and the nightlife became FUN. I had some bad nights, dark ones and after years of drug use, steroid use, fights, it came to an end one night and I realised that something had seriously gone wrong with my life.

I stopped doing something that night that could've had a really serious effect on my life; it was the darkest night in my door work. After that night I left the door work being, but depression set in and things got really bad, oh I was still taking steroids and drugs, but guess what? I believed that I didn't have a problem, WRONG!!!I started having real bad days and nights, and it came to a head, I had a breakdown.

I eventually stopped the drugs and a series of events led myself and my family to a new church, a place where you felt part of a family and you could just feel the love. It was only about 7 weeks later that I gave my life to Christ and what a buzz I got that day, no drug could make you feel this way.

Everything changed and what a change, for the first time in my life I felt Gods Love and it is so so strong it was amazing. I thank God for everyday and doing Strong Words has been such an honour, I have 4 brothers that I never had before and I have been blessed."