TODAY IS THE DAY! REMEMBERING JULY IST. 1961

              Please link to this:     http://youtu.be/x9SFtiTWawc                                                             

                        A tribute to my husband of 50 years. Thank you darling.

Stuart was born 1n 1936 in Wilmslow, Cheshire. He was a choir boy in the local Anglican church and won a scholarship to a minor public school. He was a very keen scouter and when he was 15 he attended a scout camp in North Wales. One Sunday night, walking along the promenade, he stopped to listen to a young man speaking about Jesus in a way he never remembered hearing before. The man approached him and asked if he was a christian. He answered that he didn't know. The young man read to him the verse from John 3: 16  which says: For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.." That night he asked Jesus to be his Lord and Saviour and on the following night he responded to the call to serve as a missionary.

3 Years in the Parachute regiment followed and then while he was waiting to be accepted into Bible college, we met for the first time. After doing some outreach work together for a few months we had our first date and after a year we became engaged. Stuart finished Bible college but felt that God was calling him to ordained ministry. Both the bishop and the principal of the theological college agreed it would be best if we married before he began his university studies and so, on  July 1st. 1961 at St.Andrew's  in Kinson, Bournemouth,we became man and wife.


This is the only photograph we have of our wedding.
The others were lost on our numerous travels around the world!


Those travels have taken us to serve in 9 different countries on 4 continents and finally we have ended up in Rio as our last church before we finally "retire" to Watford, Here, on Sunday, we shall celebrate our golden wedding anniversary with our friends and members of the church family.


Naturally we feel sorry that none of our 4 lovely children can be with us nor our 8 beautiful grandchildren but we know they will be with us in spirit.


We are thrilled that our dear friends of over 40 years, Bishop and Mrs. Sherrill will be with us and he has graciously agreed to lead a short thanksgiving service celebrating in the way that means the most to both of us, praising God for his mercy and many, many blessing throughout the last 50 years of growing together. God willing, there will be many more.


              If you have time, please listen to the song  above by Johnny Mathis on YouTube. It is called
                                                            The Twelth of Never.
Johnny Mathis was my favourite singer at that time. (I don´t think Stuart had ever heard of him!)
              Here is the link again in case you missed it.     http://youtu.be/x9SFtiTWawc