Gail, whom I married in 1968 went to God on October 4th, 2021. We were blessed with three sons, fivegrandsons and two granddaughters.I was born in The Hague, Netherlands, and brought up in what was Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe,we have lived in Aberdeen since 1970. Ordained a deacon in the Diocese of Aberdeen in July 2002, I serveas secretarial assistant to our Bishop Hugh Gilbert OSB, bishop of Aberdeen, geographically the mostextensive diocese in Europe.Prior to ordination, I worked for thirty years in academic publishing and book selling, firstly in Africa andthen for Oxford University Press and Blackwells of Oxford.At Easter 2010 I attended the Littleway Foundation Course. Immediately impressed by the authenticity ofwhat I saw and heard, I received healing myself, to which I have testified elsewhere.Invited to join the Council of Littleway in December 2010, I became its Chair, as of New Spring Trustwhich was set up the following year.