Jeremy Marshall, who died recently aged 60, was a rare specimen: a committed evangelical Christian with a high public profile in both the secular and Christian media.
Many encountered him through the myriad Christian organisations with which he was involved, or within the higher echelons of the banking industry, both in the UK and overseas. But I came to know Jeremy through his parish ministry, after he and his wife Jeanette joined the leadership team at St Nicholas, Sevenoaks, the church plant our family had started to attend.
We all loved attending the annual church barbeque they held in their spacious garden, where we also got to know their children, Naomi, Nat and Sam. That was nearly 20 years ago, long before his first sarcoma was diagnosed in 2012.
