Martin is curate of St Lawrence, Morden, and he came to share the story of his faith with us.
He had grown up in a churchgoing family, but at university he stopped going to church. He still believed in God but thought little about his faith.
After Uni he went to work as a researcher in Parliament, working for a Sadiq Khan MP (now Mayor of London).
It was another parliamentary researcher, the lady who is now Martin's wife, who helped him to find a real, living, personal faith in Christ, and in due course came the call to ordination, and Martin's present role as curate, or kind of trainee vicar, in Morden.
In his talk Martin was encouraging us to stand firm in our faith and not to compromise what we believe - a message that chimes in well with our current Sunday sermon series at St James & St Anne's from the book of Daniel. Great spiritual food to add to the usual full cooked breakfast.
No comments:
Post a Comment