Jesus Life 90 - Jesus Army
Jesus Life 90 - Jesus Army
Jesus Life 90 - Jesus Army
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aptised<br />
at 77<br />
Pam Selmes tells <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>Life</strong> her story<br />
DEFYING THE stereotype of a quiet old<br />
lady, at 77 years old, Pam Selmes was<br />
born again and now has people at her house<br />
“all the time”.<br />
Pam was born in Derbyshire, but her father<br />
worked with the railway so the family moved<br />
around a lot. “My mother never minded<br />
moving,” she recalls.<br />
we didn’t know<br />
it at the time,<br />
but he was dying<br />
of cancer<br />
Her family brought her up as a Quaker, so Pam<br />
was born as a “birthright Friend” – someone<br />
who had grown up in the Quaker church – “the<br />
Religious Society of Friends”.<br />
When she got married at 23 years old, Pam<br />
and her husband first lived with her parents.<br />
But then “They told us they were moving to<br />
Mauritius, because my father got a job with<br />
the Colonial Office, so they sold the house.”<br />
recalls Pam.<br />
With barely any money and a three-month<br />
old child in tow, Pam and her husband found<br />
some rooms in a Quaker meeting house in<br />
Tottenham. “I was so young,” she says, “I<br />
had lived quite a sheltered life up until then.<br />
11 <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>Life</strong><br />
Pam Selmes has a new lease of life<br />
JL<br />
Continued overleaf<br />
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