Heres HOPE
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Moorlands College where Roy trained<br />
In the two weeks after that<br />
camp I read the Bible right<br />
through to find out what had<br />
happened to me. I read that<br />
Christians are meant to be good<br />
news. Now I had a mission and<br />
purpose for my life, so I went to see my school<br />
headmaster and asked if I could take an assembly.<br />
He didn’t like taking assemblies so he said ‘take<br />
two’ – and I let them have it! Going public about<br />
your faith changes everything. My whole mission<br />
was to convert the school. I was passionate about<br />
seeing things change.<br />
I MET<br />
JESUS<br />
THROUGH A GUY<br />
AT SCHOOL<br />
TELLING ME HIS<br />
STORY<br />
Outside school<br />
I got involved in<br />
youth work and the<br />
church youth group<br />
grew. After I finished<br />
school I started work as<br />
a mechanic while training as<br />
an engineer, but I knew I didn’t want to do<br />
that for the rest of my life. I was doing what they<br />
called a sandwich course. I went to college two<br />
days a week and then worked as a mechanic the<br />
rest of the time. Working in a garage for five years<br />
is a lesson in itself. I loved it. The language is a bit<br />
choice at times but you discover a whole stack of<br />
stuff about people.<br />
I WAS NICKNAMED<br />
‘PILGRIM’<br />
BY ONE OF MY<br />
COLLEAGUES<br />
He taunted me to see if I would crack. One day<br />
I’d had enough. I hurled a hammer across the<br />
workshop – not something I’m proud of, but,<br />
when it crashed among the tyres and tools, it put<br />
an end to his goading. From then on I had his<br />
respect rather than ridicule. I was no longer in<br />
a holy bubble; he had seen I was real.<br />
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