Kevin Treasure blew tens of thousands on drugs and didn’t give God a second thought. But he met his match when a preacher pulled him out of the crowd. Joy Tibbs spoke to him about his amazing transformation
Having grown up in a one-parent family on an estate in Battersea, Kevin Treasure found himself heading down the wrong path. Between the ages of 15 and 25 he smoked cannabis every day at a total estimated cost of £250,000.
“When I became a teenager I became a bit rebellious,” he explains. “I started smoking weed and doing all kinds of things a teenager shouldn’t do. I did some things I regret. Mainly it was that I got involved in drugs, with marijuana. A lot of marijuana. And girls and partying and raving.”
Kevin’s love of acting kept him out of real trouble and he somehow managed to keep his head education-wise. He attended drama school and university, although he describes university as ‘a bit of a blur’. Others around him were facing similar battles and some of his childhood friends ended up in prison, while several others lost their lives at a young age.
He says: “There were some people I knew that crossed the line, but the way I was brought up, even though it was just my mother, there were some values that she instilled in me. I saw her work hard, she was never out of work. She instilled some values into me: there are some things you just shouldn’t do.
“I knew that I had something missing. People told me about God as a teenager; some of my family were religious. But I just thought, ‘OK, God is someone you call on when you’re in trouble.’ That’s the way I knew him. I knew that he was there and I knew he was good, and I knew that if I had a problem I could take it to him, but when you’re young you’re kind of far away from God.”
Things began to change when Kevin turned 25.
This story is from the August 2017 edition of iBelieve Magazine.
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