Bob's Bio
I really am a home-grown boy. I started here at nine years old in Sunday School, then Junior Covenanters (Juco’s), followed by Covenanter Bible class. I never dreamt that one day I would be the leader of the Church!
I finally realised my need of Jesus Christ as my personal saviour at 18 years old. Having ‘blown’ a chance to share my newfound faith to the Bible class I vowed with Gods help to tell my story at every opportunity. Soon I was involved with week-end missions.
One day while driving my laundry van I was passing under a bridge and saying to God ‘What use am I to you, I have no higher education, no qualifications I have never been to Bible School, suddenly God spoke to me. ‘I want this.....’
I realised he was speaking about my ability to drive. Within a year I was driving a truck overland to India with Operation Mobilisation (OM). I spent over two years there. When I got home I was so thin my mother never recognised me!
I met my wife Ann, in a prayer meeting and we did some of our courting in a Monastery, and some in a brewery! We married and settled back in the area after leaving OM. Before long we were blessed with three children Kim, Christie and Andrew.
I was soon involved in leadership of one kind or another. I always sought to learn from and support the pastor, serving the Lord and the church in any way I could, viewing myself as ‘second fiddle.’
In a service to release an elder into a new ministry God said to me ‘One day you are going to replace him.’ I thought ‘Oh’ but never said anything about it to anyone. Twenty years later that came to pass.
Paul was a tent-maker, Smith Wigglesworth was a plumber. I drive buses....and for the last six years, lead the church here.
