At the age of 10, LCM Pioneer, Harrison Clewes, moved from northern England to London and quickly found himself lost in a new city, mixing with the wrong crowd.
At the age of 10, LCM Pioneer, Harrison Clewes, moved from northern England to London and quickly found himself lost in a new city, mixing with the wrong crowd.
"I was very much wayward. I felt like I didn't have a strong family foundation. I felt quite lost, got into the wrong crowd, kicked out of schools, very quickly I was in a dark place." shares Harrison.
This led to him watching and digesting nationalist right wing material online, and at the age of 17 he joined a nationalist group and began travelling across Europe performing stunts with them.
"I think any lifestyle that you step into which you think is going to answer your deepest longings, you soon find out it doesn't. So that was very much the case with me. I left this group, but ran into the same problem, which is I was living a life that I expected would fill that hole in my heart. But it couldn't." This led to one fateful morning.
Still hungover from the night before, he felt a strong urge to pick up the Bible under his bed, that was given to him by his grandmother many years prior. He read the pages, became convicted of his sins and made a decision that day to follow Christ.
"I realised that I was actually a sinner and I needed a saviour, and God saved me that day. I woke up and the world just looked like a different place, I knew that I'd been changed from that time."
This led to Harrison searching online for a church, and later came across London City Mission.
Now in his second year as a Pioneer, Harrison uses his testimony to preach the gospel to those on the margins of society.