Called To Ministry

In its early days Unlock was called EUTP (Evangelical Urban Training Project). I was introduced to the organisation by Canon Neville Black when he challenged our rural parish in the south (Hampshire), to link with inner city Liverpool at the time the north / south divide was first recognised in the 1980s. Three of us travelled north to Liverpool and experienced the welcome and hospitality of the folk in the churches there. Neville's wife Val had written a "Pastoral Care and Listening" course which we were given, along with a couple of others, so we could see what EUTP was producing at that time particularly to help people in the cities. When we returned home and read this course we decided it was a gift we should use, and found a very experienced lady to lead a dozen of us through it. At the end of this, some of us worked together to form a visiting group in our church, whilst I was so challenged by what God was saying to me by the end of the course, that I sought help as to a way forward. The same leader was able to guide me to the Diaconate, where after selection, training and Ordination, I have been serving in the Church of England for the last 24 years.
My husband and I still support Unlock and I pray for you daily and admire the work