My name is Derek, I have been walking with Jesus for many years now. From the earliest times He has been challenging me to walk a path that both stretches faith and leads to deeper intimacy with Him. It has been a path deeply immersed in the Scriptures, studying the Bible with the Navigators. It is a path that has led to many different countries and cultures that have broadened perspective and helped to see God through new eyes.
I love silence and space, so God in his mercy and humour gave me a wife and four children who keep me grounded in reality. My perfect day is reading in the hammock on a warm summer’s day. My passion is God, so I spend a lot of time with Him. My wife and I seek to make our lives unhindered lights to His glory. We delight in being together: ministering, sampling cafés – The Portuguese ones are the best, walking, …
I came from a family that feared God but only went to Church for Christmas and Easter. I became a believer in Jesus sitting in a school chapel and reading a booklet.
Faith really took off after I met the Navigators at University. I was grounded in the Scriptures and encountered challenges to my life that brought with it the perspective that God is supreme in all.
Wherever I have gone I have sought people who are seeking God for a reality of faith. So, there has been a focus on relationships and learning what I can from those I am among.
If you want to read about my earlier years then there here is a link to my discipleship site – beingrecreated, In an earlier version of the site I have episodes of my story – reflections with this link.
I wrote a book. It is called Godfulness. It’s aim is to help people read the Bible in order to gain and live out these kinds of insights. If you want to check it out, follow this link.