Jarrod mckenna biography of christopher

Most churches would consider it both a moral calamity and a PR disaster if their pastor was arrested and detained for any reason. The opposite is true for Jarrod McKenna’s Westcity Church in Perth. The media attention has resulted in a wave of young, unchurched Australians turning up on Sundays, intrigued by the activities of McKenna and his fellow activists, and the Jesus they say they represent.

This summer, at Calais and across Europe’s border points, the plight of refugees and asylum seekers has come into sharp focus.

In Jarrod’s home country, immigration and asylum has long been a source of political debate, and the pastor has made a name for himself by opposing the draconian detention policies of the Australian government. His ‘Love Makes a Way’ campaign (whose oversized badge he is wearing for our interview) is aimed at shaming the authorities into ‘repenting’ of their treatment of asylum seekers.

It seems that McKenna was a born rebel.

As a child he was known