Mad for it in Manchester

Stephen Timmis  |  Features
Date posted:  1 May 1998
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Andy Hawthorne is 37 years old. He's married to Michelle, and has two children aged seven and four. They all live in Manchester and Andy supports Manchester United FC. He's a member of St. Mary's, a thriving Anglican evangelical church in Cheadle.

All of which is fairly routine. Commonplace. Even mundane. However, there can't be many middle-aged Christians who 'front' a dance band whose albums are distributed by a major recording company, featured on Radio 1, been subject to Joan Bakewell's attention on Everyman, and includes someone who was once the UK Breakdancing champion, and a DJ at Manchester's leading nightclub.

The band is called The World Wide Message Tribe - they are totally committed to Jesus, and are remarkable, primarily, in the unbridled passion they have in reaching young people with the uncompromising message of salvation through Christ alone.

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