Hitchhiker's Guide to Eternal Life

When the young Mick Hough lost his job and decided to hitchhike around Europe with a mate, he made a fateful decision that was to change his life for good.

He packed a Bible.

To this day he doesn't know why, but the fact of the matter is: the young Hough went off to Europe with the Gideon's Bible he had been given as a 15-year old schoolboy securely packed in his rucksack.

Then he started reading it.

The rest is, as they say, history.  The message of the Bible which gripped him so much when he started to read it, led to a personal encounter with Jesus Christ, and a whole new focus to his life, which in due course led the TV repairman from the Midlands to become first a Church Army Captain, then a curate, and then a vicar.

That was the story that the men heard at today's Men's Breakfast at St James's, where Mick (above), now the vicar of Holy Trinity, Redhill, was the speaker.

It was a great talk.