- Dec | 31 | The Glory of God is Person Who Is Completeley AliveKey Word:- BECOMETitle:- The Glory of God Is A Person Who Is Completely AlivePhilippians 3:12-14Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. I think I like […]
About Me
Reverend Victor Robert Farrell
I am a preacher, poet and failed pugilist, singer, dancer, actor and male model, who enjoys abseiling, Turkish delight, hang-gliding, origami, skiing, orienteering (especially wearing a 50lb backpack), long walks by the sea, pussycats, Pekinese dogs and popcorn. When I’m not preaching, I am praising or maybe fasting and praying, whilst enjoying soaking in God, soaking in the bath, or just plain enjoying soccer, chocolate and and odd glass of whiskey. Yes, this side of heaven, I am as perfect as a man can possibly be. (And if you believe all that, then you’ll believe anything!)I don’t go much for dust cover Christian celebrities, so let me tell you that the reality “of course” is that I have lost most of my own teeth, get up a couple of times during the night to pee, struggle out of bed in the morning, never find enough hours in the day, and being a true Celt, seem to alternate between suicide and homicide several times during my self generated, tension filled days! Even so God loves me and I increasingly believe and embrace that statement. In return, I love Him, very much indeed
I was born at a very early age to Scottish Roman Catholic parents, brought up as a latch-key kid, sent to Roman Catholic schools where I was beaten by Jesuits (which, quite frankly, I thoroughly deserved at the time) lost my mom to lung cancer when I was just 17, left the church being disgusted by God and intent on the fulfilment of an utterly hedonistic lifestyle in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy. To fulfil that ambition, I joined the submarine service, where to my shock surprise I started to bump into God again.
I was convicted, converted, born-again and baptized as a young sailor, aged just 19 years of age. A few years later I was called into the Ministry. Though having also spent many years as an Information Technology consultant, I reckon I have served in just about every position within the local church, and external to the local church, have served elsewhere in the Kingdom on various boards and even a Deanery Synod, so help me God!
I came into full-time ministry in 1997, and over the course of these subsequent years have spent not a few in further theological training. Now, you have to be insane to get involved in church planting, so I respectfully maintain that God tricked me into pursuing both this course of study and action. But for some six years, I studied Western church practice and models of church planting. It was of course, during that time and because of church planting, that the writing ministry of Whispering Word successfully progressed.
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I am presently pastoring an old church plant of some 28 years, which is being, even as I type, re-badged, re-invigorated, re-positioned, re-visioned and re-launched. (I told you I was a preacher!) This new church is called ‘The Spring’ and you can visit our website at www.thespring.org.uk It is situated on the south side of Royal Tunbridge Wells and I feel both honored and delighted to be here. Come visit us sometime will you!
It was in the back during a church planting ministry that I start to write these daily devotionals. While the reasons they were originally written and e-mailed to a growing database (we have sent well over one million e-mails out throughout the world) was to maintain some ‘constant contact’ with those people we had been sharing the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible with, this daily devotional e-mail has since turned into two-book sets of morning and evening devotions called ‘Wake Up!’ and ‘Night Whispers’, and from them , and from my preaching ministry, a number of other books have come to be in print and have been found to be very useful by others in spreading the Word.
The purpose of Whispering Word then does of course still remain to be a supporter of a wider church-planting ministry, even a world-wide Church Planting Ministry. We have a lot to do. The statistics seem to indicate that in my country of the United Kingdom, we have maybe 40 years left before Christianity ceases to exist and we become an Islamic state. That may sound like a fantastic statement but it is simply a demographic inevitability. We therefore need to have trained, anointed, gifted, released, resourced leaders who will plant churches that will plant churches, that will plant churches, that will plant churches…… Whispering Word exists to facilitate such a church-planting ministry.
In all these things I am supported by my wife of 30 years and have somehow still found the time to have two grown up children, (they were not grown up when we had them of course) of whom we are both very proud indeed.
May I lastly say, that no matter where you are in the world, I would be delighted to come and speak in your church, group, or gathering, and share with you both from the Word of God and about this growing church-planting ministry. I would especially like to meet with any friends from Asia, particularly China.
“If there was ever an hour I which the church needed courageous men of prophetic vision, it is now. Preachers and Pastors? They can be turned out in our schools like automobiles off the assembly line. But prophets? Where are they? The simple and humble men who are willing to serve and wait on God in the long silences, who wait to hear what God says before they go and tell the world these-do not come along too often. When they do, they seek only to glorify God and His Christ” A.W. Tozer .
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