came to faith in my early teens and this year I am celebrating 60 years since I was born again. Nurtured and trained by the ministry of the Manchester City Mission I was involved in witnessing and assisting with youth work as I pursued a career as a laboratory assistant. Eventually however, as I turned 21, I felt led to consider full time service, and applied to and was accepted to train at The Bible Training Institute in Glasgow. Here I was instructed in the truths of the Bible, as well as developing my Christian life. It was here that I developed a thirst for God's word which has not abated to this day. Like Dr Youssef whose ministry I listen to on the radio I consider the Scripture as the uncompromising Word of truth.
Initially I believed the Lord wished me to serve overseas in the realm of literature evangelism, I later discovered,through prayer and circumstance, that He had a different plan for my life! I eventually embarked on teacher training and went on to spend 28 years as a teacher of Religious Education ( some 25 of which as Head of the department) in a State Comprehensive School, educating 11 to 16 year olds.
In this capacity,I occasionally used poetry, and as the Lord led me, I started to write verse based on the word of God which I placed in church magazines.Following my retirement I found myself using this ministry on a regular monthly basis and went on to produce a web page : www.poems-to-challenge-and-inspire.co.uk
For four years I have had illustrated calendars printed containing a poem for each month, using them as gifts for family and friends, to benefit church funds and a number of local charities by their sale. Unable to do so due e to the restrictions caused by the pandemic, I was encouraged to self publish a book of my poems. With the aid of a publishing company at the age of 73 yrs i achieved this in 2020 .it is a collection of my poems,based on characters from the Scriptures, entitled
They Trusted In God
It is available from the publisher Xlibris and on line from major booksellers. Including Amazon. Recently it was selected to be promoted at the Los Angeles book fair by Regency Publishing, and also promoted at the World book fair in Frankfurt, God willing it is to be promoted at the London Book Fair in April 2023.