Pastor Mick Fleming, a former drug dealer who found God and set up Church on The Street, a charity which has been visited by Kate Middleton and Prince William, will share his story of transformation at an event called Made to Rise in Bloomsbury on 22nd September.

Pastor Mick first shot to fame during the 2020 pandemic, when his work delivering food and necessities to desperate families became the subject of a BBC news report watched by 50 million people.

Mick’s autobiography Blown Away: From drug dealer to life bringer, which has a foreword by Prince William, will be published by SPCK on the 15th September. His life story will also be the subject of a new drama series ‘The Pastor’ with Herd, as first reported by Variety.

Raped by a stranger as a child and told, just as he was about to confide in his parents, that his sister had died, Mick’s unspeakable childhood trauma propelled him into the criminal underworld of 90s Britain, and to life as a dangerous gangster, and drug dealer. One day, about to shoot a man, he had a spiritual epiphany which led him to God, and his mission to serve the UK’s most vulnerable.

At Made to Rise, an event organised by SPCK, the publisher of Pastor Mick’s autobiography, Mick will join two other authors – the poet John-Paul Flintoff and singer-songwriter Lily-Jo – to talk about the ways in which God has raised them up from brokenness, the relationship between spiritual health and mental wellbeing, and how suffering can ultimately lead to redemption.

Pastor Mick Fleming said: “My story, although painful and not for the faint-hearted, gives hope that change is possible”

“I am someone who has suffered from addiction and profound mental health issues and I have freedom from it. No matter how bad it gets or what you’ve done, there is a way out”