Stan McConnell is a student and Christian youth worker in Dublin Ireland.

Early Life

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Stan was born, Stephen John McConnell on January 22nd, 1986 to Mary and Brian McConnell. While initially brought up as a Catholic, Stephen's parents converted to pentecostal Christianity shortly before his eighth birthday. Stephen converted alongside them and was attending a full-time, Bible-based day school which was a part of Victory Christian Fellowship. Here. he was learnt much about faith and Christianity, albeit from a Pentecostal view.


It was after the youth group is Victory Christian Fellowship shut down, that Stephen first attended Gap Youth Group with his best friend, Karl Payne.