The Bala conference of ministers takes place each June in a delightful little market town in North Wales, now enhanced in my eyes through having its gospel church under a new pastor, Gareth Williams. He changed his career last year…
Grand Rapids 2007
We flew from London Gatwick to Newark, New Jersey and one of the books I took with me was George Marsden’s Jonathan Edwards. I have had it for four years but had read only the first 200 of its 500…
Fair Days in Aberystwyth
On Monday was the middle of the three Fairs held each November. This is the largest, the old ‘hiring fair’, when men and women stood at one side and farmers looking for labourers and milk-maids and servants walked up to…
Sixty-Nine Years of Ages
It’s my 69th birthday today, or as I have been telling Iola, “I have entered my 70th year today,” or even, to spread it on thick, “Next year I shall enter my eighth decade.” Last week I went to Northern…
London and Paris January 2008
The New Year is gaining momentum. It is February already and there have been some sweet encouragements. A woman had Alzheimer’s for ten years and I visited her and her husband Jim each month. He was wonderfully caring and patient…
Graduation at London 2008 and the Bala Conference
Two or three events in the last week have been helpful. The first was on Saturday, the graduation at the London Theological Seminary. There were eight students graduating, just two or three Englishmen, and so it was a low year…
The in-between time 2008
It is the end of semester at the university and the students who drifted in last September have drifted home. I was offered no redundant goldfish as last year; the street is quieter and we have more room to park…
Andrew Roycroft of Ulster interviews Geoff Thomas
Please tell us about your background, and your own calling to serve God through preaching His Word.I was born in 1938 in Merthyr Tydfil. My Baptist mother had been influenced by her mother’s brother who had been converted in the…
Memories of Westminster Seminary ’61-’64
I became a Christian in 1954 in my home church, Tabernacle Baptist in little Hengoed in the Rhymney Valley. The building, like many other churches, has now been knocked down. It was an ordinary conversion; I had the assurance under…
USA 2008
We had to get to Birmingham airport by 4.30 a.m. Thursday morning 10th July to catch the 6 a.m. KLM flight to Amsterdam for the Atlanta connection so we left Aberystwyth on Wednesday night at 5.30 p.m. Paul Wrangles was…