Stuart Patterson

Stuart Patterson is a Scottish writer, pastor, and speaker whose work weaves together faith, recovery, and real life. Born in 1970 in Belvedere Hospital, Glasgow, and raised in Easterhouse, Stuart’s early years were shaped by both hardship and hope. After a long battle with heroin addiction, he encountered Jesus in 1997—and everything began to change.

Since then, he has gone on to marry Tracy (a Dubliner), raise three daughters, and serve as the unpaid pastor of Easterhouse Community Church (Assemblies of God). He now lives in Paisley and works with Street Connect, helping people on the margins rebuild their lives—something he understands from the inside out.

Stuart is the author of Window Seat: A Life Rewritten – Heroin, Hope, and the God Who Lifted Me, a memoir of redemption that has since inspired a growing series of resources, including devotionals, workbooks, and youth editions. His writing also spans theology and public policy, blending lived experience with pastoral insight and academic depth.

A first-generation university graduate, Stuart returned to education through the Scottish Wider Access Programme, later studying at the University of Strathclyde and now pursuing a PhD in Theology Through Creative Practice at the University of Glasgow.

“I was messed up before I met Jesus. Now I’m just less messed up—and heading in the right direction,” he says. “I still can’t believe people read what I write—but I’m grateful they do.”