It was inside a YMCA in Melbourne that God began to change the direction of Michael’s life and quietly plant the seeds of what would become Break Free Ministries.

As a college student, Michael had picked up breakdancing as a hobby. During a six-month internship in Australia, he found himself training daily with a group of about twenty men in Melbourne’s Hip-Hop community. The YMCA became more than a practice space, it became a place of relationship.

As Michael listened to their stories, two themes surfaced again and again. Many of these men had grown up without fathers and were beginning to repeat that same pattern in their own lives. At the same time, many carried skepticism or pain from past experiences with the Church.

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