At the age of 24 and having recently finished a Physics degree at Bath University and a postgraduate degree in London, I started a new job at an engineering company. For the first time in my life I had spare money, spare time (no more studying or exams), a nice car and regular hours. I didn’t own a house and I had no dependants – a life many people dream of having. After a few months of racing around in my new life, I realised that something was missing, but I wasn’t quite sure what.

I sat in my bedroom one evening to think about life, the universe and everything. Suddenly a tremendous feeling of peace came over me and I realised that there was something much, much bigger than me out there somewhere. I didn’t really understand what was going on, but I knew that I had to talk to somebody about it. So I popped along to the local Anglican church (where I’d been christened and went to Sunday school until I was 10) and made the curate’s day by telling him all about it. I knew him as a family friend (he lived near my parents), so it wasn’t as out of the blue as you might think. I found that over the following few months, all the sermons at the Anglican church were for me – to my amazement, God appeared to speaking to me.

The result of all this is this I gave my life to Jesus. I was then confirmed, baptised in the Holy Spirit and later baptised in a swimming pool (I’m sure God doesn’t mind that I did in the wrong order). I met my Christian wife the same year as I was confirmed and the same curate married us in the same church about a year later.

After getting married, we joined a Christian Fellowship in Surrey (where we both come from). We later did a church plant to a nearby London suburb, which I always viewed as a training ground. On moving to Bridport 6 years ago, a job in my rather specialist field (medical ultrasonic physics) appeared from nowhere – I didn’t even have a proper interview. The children slotted easily into local schools, my wife found a local job and I found my musical role almost as soon as we joined the Fellowship (was it waiting for me to arrive?) If I ever needed confirmation that God was involved – this was it!