phil the pom

Sunday20th june,2010
Had a wonderful day yesterday, following in the footsteps of CHS, left prayer meeting at fellowship 7-30 am heading for Kelvedon his birthplace, then on to then to Stambourne where he lived with His grandparents who were pastoring the free church there, as times were very hard for his parents who were finding things difficult to survive as things were in those days,a new building stands there these days but the manse next door was the same, found his grandparents graves in the plot next door, then on to Colchester were his parents now pastoring a new fellowship had moved to and things though still hard were improved so CHS returned to live with them now aged seven, here I found the nearby Baptist church (now an Evangelical Church), were he was so wonderfully saved, then after much schoolingat Newmarket at the age of fifteen he felt the need to be baptised, and at that time he could only find in the Baptist Church at Isleham nearby a free Church who practiced full adult Baptism and in the river ferry crossing close by he was gloriously(His words) changed for ever, I found this profoundly emotional and very moving as I looked down on the river at the very spot, and my thoughts went to OUR LORD himself as He was Baptised in the river Jordan, on to where he CHS,preached his first ever sermon,another very moving and profound moment as I gazed at the old cottage where the Free church people met in those days, then finally to his own first fellowship at Waterbeach were he took on his first calling, again a newer building than the one he moved into, as I knew, but there were two foundation stones one at each corner the first by the leading elder and tbe other by the man himself, I could only just gaze in awe and wonder as my first part of this project came to its conclusion, finally arrived home rather weary but exalted at just after ten pm.after what had been for me a wonderful experience, on the way home I to had one of those personal moments when I KNEW GOD was speaking to me, an awesome and wondrous feeling that took me home "On the wings of Eagles) to borrow one of the Apostle Pauls sayings, from the letter to the Ephesian people. a most incredibly memorable day, now for part 2 that I trust to make in a few weeks time, this will be to follow his call to move to the great metropolis LONDON, where he was to know such great blessing that up till then and probably now never ever will be known again (But thats Gods work) my admiration for the man is still growing, but my love for his (And my) GOD grows even moreso as the kids say CANT WAIT, PtP