16 January saw Spring Meadow Baptist Church, Cradley Heath with a congregation of 150 welcome Julian Eisner into the pastorate of the church.
Folk travelled from Manchester, Durham, Leicester, Suffolk, Kent, Somerset, Chester and other locations in between to be there.
Derek Lewis, an elder of the church, acted as chairman and David Marlow, church secretary, gave a report on the remarkable way that God had led the church and Julian to each other, in a way not dissimilar to the characters in Genesis 24.
