I’ve written a book! It was in fact written for my family and a few close friends as we celebrated my recent 80th birthday, but I have been urged to make it more widely available. So, I have had a second printing.
The title recognises my love of cricket! As well as tracing my childhood and university education, including captaining the Cambridge University Rifle Team, I have written about my time as an engineer leading a research team in a paediatric hospital. This included designing artificial limbs for Thalidomide-affected children.
During this period, Janita and I met Terry Virgo when he began to visit our home to speak to a small spiritually-hungry group of believers who were to become his first church plant. As our friendship developed and he formed a team, what was to become the apostolic team of Newfrontiers, Terry invited me to join that team as his administrator. This was the fulfilment of a promise I had had from God when 9 years old that I would one day be ‘full-time’. I trace both family life and the development of the Newfrontiers family over the subsequent decades, including such events as the Downs and Stoneleigh Bible Weeks.
In 2000 God spoke clearly to me, commissioning me to become more active in helping churches outside the UK with their ministries with the poor, and so started a new phase of life which took me to many nations.
‘Retirement’ came in 2011, but that was not to bring an end to active ministry. It just allowed me to focus on those areas for which I had a passion, especially ministry with the poor.
In 2014 we left Sussex and moved to Bath, another new season of on-going and fulfilling ministry. You will have to read the book to discover what this contains!
I love reading biographies and often recommend them. But somehow it is harder to recommend my own! However, if you would like a copy (175 pages) please contact me, putting 80 Not Out in the topic line. The price is £8.99 plus mailing costs.