“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.  “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”  Isa 55 8-9

I’ve always been interested in space. The idea that the heavens are truly limitless is something I find totally inspiring, as well as overawing.  That there is a God whose ways are as high as that above mine is something I have never had any trouble believing. 
Brought up in a Christian home (my parents were converted as a result of sending us children to a CSSM mission in Nefyn, N Wales) I had reached my mid-teens before I realised I was not a Christian. Believing firmly in God still left my sin – which I was acutely aware of – undealt-with. Over a period of about a year I fought with this, repeatedly asking Jesus to forgive my sin and come into my heart. Nothing appeared to happen. I had asked, believing, but was still waiting for some tangible sign.

Very slowly it dawned on me that I was not taking God at his word.  The thought occurred: How would it be if I am already saved on the basis of Christ’s death for me and my trust in him?  Perhaps I just need to step out and let the feelings look after themselves. I started calling myself a Christian and the assurance of the reality of what God had done in me gradually grew, as did my faith and understanding of God’s word and will.

I came to the church in 1974 to lead the YPF and have been here ever since. Here in Wem my wife Anne and I were married, bought our first (and so far only) house and raised our four children. During all that time we have been immensely privileged to belong to a gospel-oriented church with great teaching and warm fellowship.