Revival · 20–23 September 2026
Tony
Hoang
From the gangs of Cabramatta to the pulpit. Four nights at The Potter’s House, Erdington.
The story
Tony is the son of Vietnamese refugees, raised in poverty in 1990s Cabramatta — then the drug capital of Australia. His parents crossed the sea for a safer life. The heroin years took it anyway.
13
The age he joined one of Cabramatta’s most notorious crime gangs.
14
The age he was jailed. Released, he went back to dealing.
14
Family and friends lost to the life he finally walked away from.
At sixteen he lost a close friend to an overdose while others went to jail around him. The gang had promised belonging. It was a slow way of losing everything.
2004 — everything changed
One decision.
A new life.
In 2004 Tony surrendered his life to Christ — and walked out of the world that had buried fourteen of his family and friends. Twenty years on, he is a husband, a father of six (two adopted), and the founder of Inspire180, spending his life helping young people break free from the same cycle that once held him.
He has told his story in schools, councils and prisons across Australia and abroad — and in September, he brings it to Erdington.
A story Australia already knows
Three national documentaries
Gangs of Oz
Channel 7 · 2009
Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta
SBS · 2012
Break Free — The Tony Hoang Story
Potters House Fairfield · Big Heart Big Vision
“Tony’s Cabramatta story is set to both shock and inspire”
“I can hear a pin drop”
“The boys were completely absorbed by Tony’s story”
“It was very powerful & informative”
30+ newspaper articles · national radio · schools and councils across Australia
Come and hear it for yourself
Revival
Sunday 20 – Wednesday 23 September
The Potter’s House · 35 Sutton New Road, Birmingham, B23 6TD
Everyone welcome. No tickets, no charge.