Simon's Story

I am third youngest of four children in our family and my mum and dad did their best to bring us up with christian values. During my childhood, my mother was often unwell when I was very young and meant that I had to be put into care now and again, this left me feeling rejected as I grew up. When I reached my teens, I suffered some physical and emotional abuse which I could not tell even my parents about because I was afraid of their reaction and further rejection. For the next 14 years I moved away from home and suppressed my depression with work and fast cars not knowing that actually God loved me with an everlasting love and was about to do a miracle in my life. I began to meet Christians who I knew had a peace and freedom that I longed for, they told me I had to be born again by asking Jesus into my heart to get into heaven and that I could’nt do it by just being a good person and doing good things. I regularly woke in the night fearing I would die, something inside of me was not fulfilled. I did not want to die, God was beginning to draw me. I had not cried since I was a boy, and remembered being told about Jesus as a child, but I had not accepted him into my life, as I recalled what had been taught about his forgiveness and love, I cried for the first time in years as waves of my heavenly Father’s love flowed through me and began to heal my wounds. A Word that is real to me is in Malachi 4,6:- 'He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers'. 

 God met me at my place of need and he can meet you whatever your situation now. I now have a lovely wife and two boys to be a husband and father to, I now enjoy fellowship and being part of the worship team at Jubilee Church Wirral who meet in Upton at the overchurch school.

I first met Dave and Nicky Wirral church in a meeting in Manchester and some time later, as a family we started to meet in various home groups in Liverpool and when Jubilee church planted in the Wirral, we moved over to live here.

One of my passions is guitar playing on my Taylor acoustic and as any instrument player will know, it takes a lot of practice to strive to be a better player. As a lead worshipper it is always a challenge to stay in that place of God's presence in order to lead others into the 'Inner Courts' . A recommended book is one by Don Potter 'facing The Wall'. I also enjoy Matt Redman's material.

Jesus says in John 4,23:- 'Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth.'