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In 1995 I received a telephone call from a Pastor's wife asking if I could help her husband in their AOG church because he was struggling in the work. I agreed to preach when invited and I was invited the next Sunday,morning and evening. Then I was invited again and to lunch out after the...
The Caribbean people were so friendly and hospitable. They made us so welcome! It was a joy to meet in homes for fellowship and prayer,as well as the Sunday meetings in a Church room. It was in late 2002 that I was diagnosed with a tumour in my right kidney that was cancerous,growing up towards...
In 2001 New gospel meetings were being held in our Village Hall and my wife and I started to attend them. Sunday morning and evening and Tuesday evening Prayer and children and Youth Groups. It was good to be able to walk there in ten minutes and enjoy fellowship with other Christians near where...
In 1999 my elderly retired friend"s wife went to be with the LORD and I regularly visited him twice a week after postal delivery. I would take him out in the car and visit places in our beautiful County. In 2000 he said,'What are you doing on Sunday evening? I said,'We only meet on Sunday...
In 1998 we left Kent after 15 years ministry there. I transferred with Royal Mail and worked on earlies as a Postman. All kinds of weather,sun,rain and snow. We fellowshipped at a 'Salt and Light' Christian Fellowship and I joined their songsters,'The J C Singers' and we sang in Old People's...
In 1996 some concerned friends in a New Frontiers Christian Fellowship said to us 'Come with us and we will do you good'. They really did do us good and we were able to do them good! I led a housegroup there and a prayer group at my home and the fellowship was lovely. As well as their meetings...
In 1993 we were invited to a small AOG church that met on Sunday afternoons,in the town where we were living. The two pastors were good friends. We joined a housegroup there and the leader died and I was asked to lead the group. The Pastors left and I found myself in a Caretaker Pastor's...
We spent six years from 1987 in the Mother Church of the church where we had ministered. I got a job as a fulltime Postman to earn a living and this was a good time for the family. The children were growing up and took part in children's housegroup and youth activities,as well as in the life of...
I'm 1984,we received a letter from a church in Kent,asking if we would consider a visit with a view to the full-time Pastorate. I replied and was invited to visit and preach and it went well and we were invited to visit as a family,which resulted in the church all together inviting me as the...
After six years in our first pastorate we were invited to take part in a team ministry in a suburb of a large city. There were three pastors in the leadership team. God provided a Council house exchange and we moved into a three bedroom house,not far from the church facilities. I was working as...
Leading a growing church is something we can only do in His strength and calling! Seeking to be a good husband,father and citizen and working full-time as a Postman (after the first two years in full-time ministry) and supervising a demanding building programme,certainly took its' toll on me and...
Everyone gave what they could,but the old garage would need a lot of work to be turned into a church building. We acquired a loan from the AOG Property trust and trusted God to provide the finance needed to convert the old derelict garage into a church building. One of the members had two...
A butcher's van was sent to transport us to our new home,which was a two bedroomed cottage,owned by the church. It was a church started in the 1920s by Evangelist Edward Jeffreys and they met in a corregated iron building owned by a large Public School. There was a dedicated nucleus of...
Towards the end of my studies I was recommended to a church in the West of England,looking for a pastor. I visited and preached and visited again with my wife and five month son. On my leaving College a two bedroomed Council house became available in my home town. We actually moved into it,but...
We lived in an upstairs flat of a house purchased by the church. It was next door to the church. One day the Pastor knocked on the door and said that if I still wanted to go to Bible School,he would be willing to recommend me. His son would be going and we could travel up and down together. I...
After a year working together in the Pioneer Church we concentrated our efforts into the Mother Church and I was appointed as Lay Minister. Our marriage took place in my young lady's home church. Forty came from my home church and some members of my family and forty or so from my fiance's...
It was while we were walking along the beautiful canal towpath holding hands together,on one of her visits to my home town,that I proposed to my young lady,'Will you marry me?' She answered,'Yes,but we should wait awhile'.'Of course',I said,'but we could announce our engagement'. My fiance was...
It was on a short break,visiting a friend in ministry,in a small town in Somerset,that we went in my car,with his family to the seaside. We had a lovely day on the beach and in the evening went to the AOG Church for a prayer meeting. Afterward we were invited to a home where young people were...
It wasn't long before I was appointed as a church deacon and I used to have a prayer letter printed with items for the church to pray for. I enjoyed welcoming people at the church door to the services and bidding them 'God bless',at the end. I used to testify,sing and give a Word to the church...
My first job,at 17 years of age, in 1968,was as a Metallurgist Assistant,in the iron foundry,where my father worked. It combined work in the laboratory testing the iron ore and in the furnace area using a long handled ladle to take samples from the furnace to put into wedges, that were then...