Category: Memoirs

14 June 2018

MEMOIRS (4)

MY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY COUPLED WITH THE CALL OF GOD Annually The Salvation Army conduct what is called “Youth Councils” which are a series of meetings, especially designed to encourage young people to consider full time ministry (Officership) I began attending from age 13, and either the very first year or maybe the 2nd I became strongly aware that God had placed a call to ministry […]

13 June 2018

MEMOIRS (3)

MY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY COMMENCES I attended Sunday School regularly at the local Salvation Army, for some time, then I heard about a “Military Tattoo” was going to be held at the local football ground on a Sunday. I have always been interested in anything military, so decided to go. The football ground was two blocks after the Salvation Army hall, and I remember literally creeping […]

12 June 2018

MEMOIRS (2)

MY CHILDHOOD I was born on 8th September 1941 in Melbourne Australia. Both my parents had migrated from England, My father with his parents, my mother with her grandmother and other members of the family. They both came from the same town in Birmingham England, they actually attended the same school and church, but as my father was almost 14 years older than my mother […]

11 June 2018

MEMOIRS (1)

It has been suggested to me recently by a dear Christian brother that I should write my MEMOIRS, and tell my story of how God can take a nobody and make him a somebody. How a 10 year old illegitimate boy, can become a “new creation in Christ”. How a teenager could receive the “call” of God to ministry, have many years of fruitful Pastoral Ministry. […]