Christ Church Moreton Hall

I was born into a Christian family and grew up attending a Methodist church along with both my parents, my younger sister and two of my grandparents.  I attended Sunday School and Girls’ Brigade eventually becoming both a Sunday School Teacher and a Young Leader.  I am one of those people who are fortunate enough to be able to say that my faith has been a part of who I am all my life.   

Through the support of those at home, at Church and then at the age of 17 those in my sixth form college Christian Union, I came to the decision that this was a way of life that I was sticking with.  For me the way to mark this was through full immersion baptism and later confirmation into membership of the church.

Other Christians can be both the best and worst adverts for their faith and I was lucky enough to have one of the best adverts as a Grandad.  There was a lot more to him than the little (5’2”!) old man shaking hands on the door each Sunday, and this showed me that being a Christian doesn’t weaken your personality – he was willing to accept change, even at the age of 94, and more importantly, accepted all people whoever they were.

Jesus has proved a reliable friend to me – through two redundancies, two relocations to different parts of the country, a period where I suffered Chronic Fatigue and through my unreliability as his follower!  I have always to remind myself that he knows and holds my future in his hands, even when (or maybe particularly when), it doesn’t feel like it.  As the song says “He is my anchor, my hope and my salvation”.