Doctor Explains How He Went From Cursing God to Serving Him for 40 Years

Rev Mark Gadd has been in ministry for decades.He has pastored churches, directed missions across Great Britain and Ireland, and given his entire life to a calling that started on the side of an American road.And in this episode, he holds nothing back.From a young Englishman hitchhiking across the States with no direction, to walking into a little missions home and watching strangers pray and slowly realising they were praying for him. To the silent grief of ministry, the people who leave, the visions that don't always come to pass, and the family that carries the weight behind the scenes.This isn't just a testimony.It's an honest conversation about what it really costs to say YES to God.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In this episode, Rev Mark Gadd reveals:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━-How a minister who picked up a hitchhiker never once pressured him and why that changed everything.-What he felt the moment he realised a room full of strangers were praying specifically for him.-The exact spot he can still picture today where he committed his life to the Lord and got baptised in Jesus' name that same night.-The hardest part of pastoring that nobody talks about visions that don't happen and people you pour into who simply walk away.-The story of Andy a man who heard singing from outside the church, walked through the door, and never left.-Why Rev Gadd salutes every pastor holding down a secular job, raising a family and still shepherding a congregation.-The untold sacrifice of ministry families and how his wife Beth raised their four sons in church while standing beside him in ministry from the very beginning.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ TIMESTAMPS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━00:00 Introduction/Trailer02:33 About Rev. Mark Gadd06:53 The importance of belonging to the universal body of Christ10:14 Rev. Gadd's conversion story22:11 Telling his non-believer family about receiving the Holy Ghost and becoming christian23:58 What is missions?26:22 When you're called to preach but you're an introvert, how does it work?29:09 Pastoral experiences: the hardest and great sides of pastoring35:40 Rev Gadd's lowest point in life story41:11 How important is missions in the coming Revival?48:41 The uniqueness of one-to-one Bible Studies and sowing the Word51:22 A word for YOU━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙️ ABOUT REV MARK GADD━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Dr Mark Gadd was born in Durham in the north east of England and born again in Welsh, Louisiana.From a hitchhiking young man with no faith and no direction, to one of the most seasoned voices in Apostolic ministry in Great Britain and Ireland today. After his conversion, Mark moved to Birmingham where he was instrumental in planting the very first United Pentecostal Church in the city a church he then faithfully pastored for over 40 years. Within the UPC GB&I, Dr Gadd has served at different levels of leadership as District Superintendent and now as National Missions Director, carrying a heart for souls that has never dimmed since that night in a little missions home in Louisiana. Married to Bethan for over 40 years, together they have raised four sons in the faith and are now the proud grandparents of five. A family built on the same altar where it all began.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎧 LISTEN & WATCH━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━YouTube: @theworldrevivalpodcastSpotify: The World Revival PodcastApple Podcasts: The World Revival Podcast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📱 FOLLOW THE WORLD REVIVAL━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Instagram: @theworld.revivalTikTok: @theworldrevivalFacebook: @theworldrevival━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔔 SUBSCRIBE & HIT THE BELL━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━New episodes every Friday! Conversations that challenge, inspire and equip.