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East End
beginnings
My name is Bob Towler and I am 59 years old.
I was brought up in a strict good Christian family, my father
earlier in his life had been a Sunday school superintendent at the Grange
Park
Congregational Church in Leyton (East End of London) and my mother sang in
the choir at the Edinburgh Castle, which was an open church, as I understand
it, again in the East End of London.
Having a strict upbringing and being made to go to church
three times a day each Sunday up to the age of about 15, I then rebelled and
had very little to do with the church for 25
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or so. My home life as a youngster was very happy, but my mum suffered with
chronic Osteo-Arthritus so she was always in terrible pain and this put a
lot of extra pressure on my dad who had to see to all my mum’s needs before
he went to work each day. I tell you these parts of my early life because I
feel that they had a profound effect on the way my life developed.
The love of my life
At the age of 20 I met the love of my life Trish, we were
married three years later and I would mention that within the space of the
first year of our married life The Lord took both my mum and dad home within
5 months of each other, my mum being just 53 and my dad 56, and it left my
sister Jean on her own at 17 years of age. Trish then stepped in and did her
best to be a substitute mum to Jean.
After a few years Jean married and by then we had had
Michelle our daughter, she was followed 3 years later by Kevin, now as I
write this I must say that The Lord blessed Trish and myself with the most
wonderful children we could every have prayed for, as you will see later.
Christian,
Moonies or just Open Minded?
About 15 years ago Jean and her husband Hans told Trish and
myself that they had become Born-again Christians. It did not mean a lot to
me, but the more they told me the more I thought that they had joined the “moonies”,
which were a Weird sect at the time. Some time later Trish noticed a
difference in Jean, there was a peace and something she could not put her
finger on with Jean. However, after a while and a lot of talking to Jean and
Hans, Trish felt the need to go to church. About this time Jean asked Trish
if she would like to go to a healing service, which Trevor Dearing was
speaking at, they also asked if I would like to go, so being a little more
open minded by then I said yes.
As I think you may be able to imagine a person who has been
used to conventional worship, hymns, prayers etc., to be confronted with
chorus’s and open worship was quite a shock, and then to top it all people
going to the front for Prayer and then falling to the floor threw me
completely. Jean, Hans, Trish and myself talked a lot over the next few
weeks, and then Jean said Trevor Dearing was speaking at another meeting
locally. Would I go? I said yes I had to see if what I saw the first time
was what I saw! It was.
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That's the
one!!!
Trish said she would like to find a local church to go to and
she had a picture in her mind of the front of the church, so one night we
drove in the car all around our area without finding anything to resemble
Trish’s picture. I think it was the following week when going somewhere
locally that all of a sudden Trish shouted: “There it is, that’s the one,”
it was Upminster Methodist Church.
We started going there Sunday mornings to
 the
family service, I went to keep Trish company. I then started to notice that
Trish had the same peace and glow about her that Jean had. The penny then
dropped, the peace and glow was the Holy Spirit within her. I still resisted
and over a period of time there was Jean, Hans, Trish, Trish’s sister
Valerie and her husband Pete who had all asked The Lord into there lives,
and I saw with my own eyes the difference it made to them, and so at long
last after my family and friends had been praying for me for eight years I
asked The Lord to take charge of my life.
After being at Upminster Church for about ten years we moved
to Benfleet, which is near to Southend-on-Sea and joined The Kings Church
Tarpots which meets in Appleton School.
He called
her home
I now realise that over all those years and all the time the
love and prayers which were directed for me had been put in place by The
Lord because He knows the whole picture, and we only see a tiny square. I am
now so grateful to God for all He has done for me because 2 days after
Trish’s 57th Birthday The Lord called her home and she died in my arms at
home with just Jesus, Michelle, Kevin and me with her. The support from
Michelle and Kevin, who at this moment to my knowledge have not yet asked
Jesus into their lives, has been paramount to me physically.
The hole I had in my heart for years when I lost my mum and
dad has not been there for one day since I lost Trish because of the
comfort, love and support spiritually that I have received from The Lord
and I now know with certainty that we will be together for ever risen in The
Lord Jesus with a New Body in a New World.
Praise The Lord.
Bob
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If you would like to contact Bob either contact the
church [details on the Home page] or
email him.
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