Join us for our joint mission event with Knutsford Methodist Church on the 21st – 24th March, 2013.
Speaker – Paul Hinton (all events) with special guests Robin Oake (Thurs 21st), Fiona Castle (Sat 23rd), Dan Walker (Sun 24th) – all events 7.30pm at Knutsford Methodist Church.
Paul Hinton
Paul Hinton, who will be overseeing and speaking at all three events, is a Yorkshireman who lives near Leeds, with his wife Fiona and four children. He is the Pastor of Moorside Church and an evangelist speaking in Churches and Universities around the UK.
Fiona Castle
Fiona Castle was born in the Wirral and, at the age of nine, went to a boarding school in Surrey to study dance and theatre arts. She worked in the theatre as a dancer and singer for seven years before marrying Roy Castle, who was, at that time, a well-known entertainer. They were married for 31 years before Roy died of lung cancer in 1994.
They had four children. Daniel is a teacher. Julia worked in the shanty towns of Lima in Peru for 12 years, teaching disadvantaged women skills in order for them to earn a living. Antonia works as a floor manager for television, and Benjamin is a professional musician. She has three grandchildren.
Fiona has written a number of books, including five anthologies of prose and poems, autobiographies and a book on coping with cancer. More recently she has written a book for Global Care, about some of the places where she has worked, on their behalf, in many different countries. She had a regular weekly slot on Premier Radio for five years.
Much of Fiona’s time is spent travelling around this country, sharing her story at evangelistic events; speaking at charity events for Hospices, Cancer Research UK Rotary and various church events. She has run the London Marathon twice for Oasis Trust, for which she is a patron, for the first time in 2001 and probably for the last time in 2005! She is also President of Activate; an organisation which encourages Christian women to take God’s love into the community, through a wide variety of low-key, friendly events, and seminars, encouraging Christian women in evangelism. She was given an OBE for her work with Global Care and other charities, in 2004.
Robin Oake
Robin Oake is a former Chief Constable, having served as a police officer in London, Bramshill, Greater Manchester, Miami, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. He is father of murdered Special Branch police officer, Stephen Oake, whose death was one of the biggest shocks to policing in the UK, and was called “an appalling tragedy” by the Head of Scotland Yard’s Anti-Terrorist Branch. But even in the depths of a parent’s loss, Robin had insights that could help him in his grief and allow him to face up to the tragedy. How could Robin’s faith help him not only to bear the loss of a son but also to forgive his murderer?
Dan Walker
Dan Walker presents the BBC’s Saturday lunchtime football show, Football Focus. He also co-presents The Open championship, hosted Songs Of Praise earlier this year and appeared on A Question Of Sport, Celebrity Mastermind and various radio and television shows.