ARTICLE: Shawn McDonald - Caffeinated Worship

December 30th, 2006 | Interviews | Source: Breakaway Magazine (11)

Shawn McDonald was one of those teens most people had written off as hopeless. Abandoned by his parents and raised by his grandmother in Eugene, Ore., his early years were, in his words, “Extremely dazed and confused.” But not from the latest Starbucks concoction.

At 13, Shawn was already into the party scene, getting weekend beer buzzes with his friends from school. By 16, he added a stronger high to the menu: Shawn began smoking marijuana. “I was a confused kid, and my confusion boiled into anger,” Shawn says. “You name the drug, and I was eventually selling it and doing it. “My existence had become a hard, closed shell. I was extremely rebellious, miserable and lost. What God is doing now in my life is amazing.” […read more]

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