Journey to Christmas - Drew Marshall

Drew Marshall grew up in a funeral home, was kicked out of four schools, and finally dropped out after completing grade nine. Not wanting to wait around for life to give him a shot, he ran away to California at the age of seventeen and became a wrangler at a ranch-camp in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. After returning to Canada four years later, having never played a game of football in his life, he became a punter at the semi-pro level, which eventually led to NFL & CFL tryouts. After leaving his football dreams behind, Drew then began training for a career as a Fire Fighter. Had he decided to settle into any one of these ambitious pursuits, this wandering autodidactic iconoclast would never have ended up taking an unbelievable step of faith. In 1997, he moved his family to Australia with nine bags of clothes, two children, no place to live, and no job!

Then, after five years in Australia, he moved his family back to Canada and in 2003 and with absolutely zero broadcasting experience, walked into the studios of JOY 1250 and pitched the idea of hosting a talk show that was different. Drew now hosts Canada's Most Listened To Spiritual Talk Show - listened to by an estimated 100,000 people around Southern Ontario and online by listeners from over 100 Countries!

When it comes to Christmas, Drew has had some traumatic experiences in his past which color his memories of this celebration. As a teen, he tried to commit suicide one Christmas Eve and then a couple of years later, ran away to California on Christmas morning. To make matters worse, Drew DESPISES the western commercialization of the Christmas season. No wonder his wife calls him a "scrooge" at Christmas.

After 30 years of being a professed follower of Christ, Drew recently announced to his listeners that he's no longer "convinced" there's a God and would like an encounter with the Almighty for Christmas. "My faith just isn't able to be sustained anymore by circumstantial evidence, third party testimony or rumors of glory, and tribal conditioning. I kinda feel like a young boy who has lost sight of his father in a crowded room and just wants his Father to let him know that He's at least there, in the room. Wouldn't that be a perfect Christmas present?"

Drew brought the power of his desperate thirst to connect to God as Father to the heart of the JOURNEY TO CHRISTMAS adventure. His honesty kept everyone very real. No pat answers or quick fixes would suffice.

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