Brian Norton was a leading light in EPCEW (Evangelical Presbyterian Church of England and Wales).
I met him when he was not a minister, but an elder leading Durham Presbyterian Church. He had led it from when it was a small group of seven people. Even by 2001, it was not large — about 30 or 35 people. Those were the early days of the emerging young, cool, hip church planters that were appearing on the internet scene. Brian was not one of those.
And yet… Brian’s ministry, his vision for the Great Commission and the idea of the ordinary means of grace and the richness of Reformed worship, under God, have been instrumental in establishing four other churches (Gateshead, Sheffield, Hexham and now Berlin – a body of people in the hundreds). Never judge a book by its cover.
