Willis Metcalfe, 1922-2009
Willis Metcalfe, a director of both Evangelical Press and Evangelical Times, went to be with the Lord on June 8.
Converted to Christ as a 12-year-old boy in the Methodist chapel at Snape near Bedale, he later undertook evangelistic training at Cliff College, Derbyshire, in 1947-48. He prepared for missionary work in China, but this was thwarted, firstly, by ill health and, secondly, by the Communist takeover of 1949.