Introductions- Introduce yourself!

I'm Laura, based in Surrey, UK. I'm married to Kumar. We started our young lives as 'missionaries'. Kumar, saved as a child in Malaysia, kept trying to have a 'normal' life but God shut doors and he started his adult life church planting in Malaysia with a 'seasoned' missionary, followed by YWAM. I was saved at 16, and very early on went to Hong Kong. I spent just over 2 years in a wonderful teaching missionary community run by my lovely spiritual parents Paul and Bunty Collins, and the lovely China missionaries, Cyril and Gabrielle Thomas. The years in HK were full of really interesting 'connecting' and experiences which set the foundation for the years ahead. Married to Kumar 1986, moved to UK 1989.

Here we became 'normal' i.e. not church workers of any description. We attended a lovely fellowship for some years but God led us out in the early/mid 90s to pursue deeper where He wanted to take us. This has not been geographical travelling but into more organic ways of 'being' light and salt in our town, 'being' church in a unique way for our environment. We very soon came across the works of Frank Viola and Gene Edwards which spoke into our journey.

We have 'simply lived' with all its challenges, 'being' who we are in Christ: we are humans : ), disciples, spouses, parents, friends, colleagues and Kumar is a pastor/teacher, me a teacher/pastor, we don't 'do' these ministries, we just 'are' them in every day life. We love the Lord and we love people. And we are always open to learning how to walk more closely with the Lord; how to enter more into His visions and purposes.

Thanks so much to the precious Dales, whose parents/grandparents were some of my earliest contacts in Hong Kong, for this site. I am 'here' in 'SimpleChurch.com for the purpose that I believe the Lord has a corporate dream as well as an individual one for us all
love Laura