When Chris drove me back to Hildenbrough station on Saturday, I never dreamed that this was our last meeting on earth. We’d had our usual mix of serious debate, music and family fun; not for the first time, he had kindly put right one of my hymns in draft.
When he travelled north for their holiday two weeks later, after a typically energetic youth teaching venture (Woolhampton 2), he little thought he would never return to his Penshurst home.
But after the morning service at Buxton on Sunday August 12, their car was hit head on. Chris (39) was killed outright; Helen seriously injured, but now being marvellously patched up by Sheffield surgeons. David (9) and Jonathan (7) were spared physical damage but, like their Mum, remain in need of prayer.
