Article 5EMQE From dealing drugs to delivering food: Pastor Mick on Burnley's Covid crisis – video report

From dealing drugs to delivering food: Pastor Mick on Burnley's Covid crisis – video report

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Christopher Cherry, Maeve Shearlaw and Charlie Phi
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Pastor Mick Fleming has devoted all of his time in this lockdown to supporting the poorest communities in Burnley. But his life hasn't always been this way. He tells us how he swapped a life of crime for delivering food parcels seven days a week, holding funerals for free and counselling people through drug relapses. He says the suffering of the poorest people in his town should make society deeply uncomfortable

Mick's Church on the Street charity: https://www.cots-ministries.com/


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