Keith had struggled bravely with cancer for three years, but passed into the Lord’s presence on Christmas Day 2010.
His funeral and thanksgiving service took place in Beeston Evangelical Church, Nottingham, on January 11, led by the Rev. James Wood. A large congregation gathered, and Alun McNab preached.
Keith was born in Liverpool in 1931, and his godly parents taught him and his sisters God’s Word and the truths of the gospel from the earliest years. While worshipping with his family at the Toxteth Tabernacle, he heard the pastor, Humphrey Vellacott, preach powerfully on the verse, ‘Today is the day of salvation’, and God opened his heart. There and then he gave his life to the Lord Jesus. He began preaching in the chapels around his home, having moved to Wales, and, although in business with his father by then, he was called to the ministry, and entered the London Bible College in September 1952, at that time blossoming under the strong leadership of Ernest Kevan. On the first day, Keith and Jim Wood became very close and firm friends, a friendship which grew closer as both men later entered the ministry of Baptist churches.
