It was in a small student room late one night at Reading University in 1974 that the Holy Spirit whispered to me: 'You must become like a child' (Matthew 18.3).
As I asked God to be my Father, my searchings for truth and reality were finally over, I was born again, I realised that the Lord had died to save me and my life as a true Christian started. I was 18 and in my first year studying Psychology and Linguistics.
By my final year I knew that the Lord was calling me to enter the teaching profession as, I thought, a 'stepping stone' to other work. A year later I was astounded to be offered a job in an excellent mixed comprehensive school in Reading to teach French, initially only to CSE level (low GCSE level). The following year Rachel and I were married at Carey Baptist Church, Reading, where we had first met.
