A strange phenomenon of our situation here is that you can walk just over 1200 yards from our Baptist church in Childs Hill, and if headed in the right direction, you will come to quite a different neighbourhood and another church, an Anglican one, St Luke's, Kidderpore Avenue, West Hampstead. In some ways quite different, St Luke's is robustly evangelical. I know the vicar, Alistair Tresidder, to speak to but not more than that. We were very sorry to hear that his wife Sheena had contracted cancer a while ago and even more sad when recenty she died, not yet 60.
There must have been over 400 present to hear Andrew Sach preach and the family bear witness to this woman who loved simply being a mother. With five children of their own they went on to foster four others, some with great difficulties. It was a privilege to be there, as alien as I find some of it, just to hear testimonythat it is still possible even in 21st century Britain to live an evangelical life as a happy mother, trusting in the only Saviour there is. How one feels for the family and the congregation to some ectent too.
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