It was an unusual way for any couple to celebrate their 21st wedding anniversary — exchanging a four-bedroom house where they had lived happily for 17 years for the cramped living conditions of a static caravan in an isolated ten-acre field.
But to evangelists Jem and Sue Hudson it was just another step in a remarkable walk of faith to expand the ministry work of a church they planted 15 years ago on a housing estate in Stenson Fields, Derby.
Launching out
The church, Stenson Fields Christian Fellowship, with a 120 strong fellowship, grew out of the success of a children’s outreach the couple launched in 1989, which has led to about 100 children regularly taking part in weekly Bible study programmes.
