About Me
I was born in Liverpool, England, in 1961, and had a very simple but enjoyable childhood, playing outside as often as I could. At weekends, me and my friends would go on long bike rides with just a jam butty (jelly sandwich) and a bottle of water to sustain us and would often come trampsing home, exhausted at dusk. School holidays were best and seemed to go on forever. When we weren't on our bikes we would play football from dawn till dusk. Life was so good and so innocent. Pity we have to grow up isn't it?
I was brought up in the Roman Catholic (RC) religion and was 'forced' to attend mass every Sunday. Church didn't really mean anything to me. The priests wore brightly coloured frocks and spoke in Latin. I quickly learned to just pop my head into the church at the end of the mass so I could see what colour frock the priest was wearing, as this was the first question my mother would ask when I got home.
My education was in a RC all boys school, with all male teachers, many of whom wore frocks. I don't have many good memories of senior school and was glad to leave at 16 years old.
My RC upbringing and education meant I was brainwashed into believing many of the false, man made beliefs of the Christian church.
I joined the police aged 18 years old and had a great time for 22 years when I had to leave due to an injury. In the 1980’s a colleague lent me a book, ‘The Late Great Planet Earth’ by Hal Lindsay, and reading it, I found out about the ‘snatching away’ or ‘rapture’, the antichrist, the tribulation period and that Jesus Christ was to return to the earth. The Catholics hadn’t told me any of this and it was a surprise to me that Jesus was coming back. It was like a science fiction action story, and although I loved it, I soon got on with living my life.
In 1990 I met my wife, Patricia, and we were married in 1994.
At this stage in my life I believed in 'God' and in the stories about Jesus, but that was about all while Pat was an atheist, having had no religious input into her life at all.
We lived a 'normal' life in Liverpool for without God or religion for 10 years but everything changed in 1999 and you can read what happened next by clicking on 'OUR TESTIMONY' on the left hand side of the page.
