{"id":1626,"date":"2013-02-08T14:40:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T13:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2013-02-08T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T13:45:07","slug":"is-anybody-out-there-mez-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/is-anybody-out-there-mez-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Is anybody out there? Mez McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[amazon_link id=&#8221;1845502051&#8243; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; container=&#8221;&#8221; container_class=&#8221;&#8221; ]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?: A Journey from Despair to Hope\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41PfxIQwGVL._SL160_.jpg\" width=\"105\" height=\"160\" \/>[\/amazon_link]Is anybody out there is the inspiring autobiography of Mez McConnell. Abandoned by his mother at the age of two, brought up by his dad and his partner who beat him up on a daily basis, Mez met Christ after a spell in prison for stabbing some people in a bar fight.<\/p>\n<p>He is a former UFM missionary to Brasil, and now the Pastor of a church on a difficult estate near Edinburgh. I couldn&#8217;t let this book down. It is moving ad thought-provoking. It will make you praise God for the Gospel which is the power of God unto salvation for whoever believers. As a taster, you can listen to Mez&#8217;s testimony in the video below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- This version of the embed code is no longer supported. Learn more: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/help\/faq\/embedding --> <object width=\"500\" height=\"281\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=57561798&amp;force_embed=1&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><embed width=\"500\" height=\"281\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=57561798&amp;force_embed=1&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/57561798\">Mez McConnell&#8217;s Testimony<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/20schemes\">20 Schemes<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[amazon_link id=&#8221;1845502051&#8243; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; container=&#8221;&#8221; container_class=&#8221;&#8221; ][\/amazon_link]Is anybody out there is the inspiring autobiography of Mez McConnell. Abandoned by his mother at the age of two, brought up by his dad and his partner who beat him up on a daily basis, Mez met Christ after a spell in prison for stabbing some people in a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/is-anybody-out-there-mez-mcconnell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is anybody out there? Mez McConnell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-books","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}