Last October over 200 people filled St. James’s Church, Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, for a service of thanksgiving for the life of Roy Leafe, the church’s assistant minister for six years.
Roy lived the last two years of his life with the diagnosis of bowel cancer, a condition he bore with courage and without complaint.
He was one of the Kingdom’s foot soldiers, not one of its captains, or commandos. As a result he never got attention for his work, and certainly never sought it. But the thanksgiving at that service came from very full hearts. Roy looked like an ‘ordinary’ man. Truth is, he excelled in giving back to his Master all that he was entrusted with, and many, many were enriched by him.
