Thursday Tea Time

I spoke this week at a mid week fellowship meeting at Hinde Street. The title given to my talk by the organiser was "Why I want to be a Minister".... mmm an interesting title- sounds as if being a minister was something that I decided I wanted to do! Well yes I had a choice in my response- but it was a sense of call not just a what shall I do with my life! It was interesting for me to talk through my sense of call and journey. With candidating it became a regular feature but to look back now 9 months since the last time I spoke publically about it, its very much a continuing sense of call. Its now 6 and a 1/2 years since my first initial sense of call and in fact 6 years ago today was Youth Sunday. This particular Sunday became of significance- one of my ministers at the time asked after me being involved in leading worship- have you thought about full time ministry as a possibility?! Until that point I hadn't spoken to anyone about it and even then kept quiet! How did he know the journey that I was on internally!
Any way I could write my full testimony here- but not tonight it'd take a while. Have been thinking that it might be a good idea- some people who were around at my initial sense of call probably haven't heard the story because it wasn't really till I went to Lancaster that I spoke publically to circuit meetings etc about my sense of call!