Past Speakers

David L'Herroux - March 2008

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David L'Herroux of French nationality came to England from France in 1973. David has been married to Jackie for over 32 years, her support to both, the BoH ministry and David's ministry is very valuable and thank God for it. They have two beautiful grown up children, Richard 29 and Natalie 26 both are doing very well and they praise God them.

It was in 1988 that after the tragedy of loosing their third child James that a greater compassion for the lost young generation overwhelmed them, and broke David's heart, when he discovered that God's heart was broken too, over the loss of millions of His children who he will never see again, as he will see James one day.

David worked within the Littlewoods Organisation for over twenty eight years, starting as a cleaner, moving up rapidly into many Senior Executive positions, but in the year 2001 felt led by the Lord to leave the Organisation after heading their Discount Chain for nearly five years.

He is worked full time for Book of Hope International as the UK Director for 5 years, and for over 25 years he has been part of the leadership ministry team at his local Church Bethel Christian Fellowship in the West Midlands.

In 2003 David joined the UCB Europe board of trustees and in February 2007 Book of Hope International and United Christian Broadcasters have formed a strategic alliance, Book of Hope's UK and Republic of Ireland operation has now been integrated within UCB . David has now joined the UCB Executive Team as Ministry Director and is overseeing the ongoing growth and development of the Book of Hope as well as leading the UCB Ministry Team's activities.

In the early 80's David was on the board of Harvest United, an Organisation seeking to reach children and youth for Christ by training and releasing youth workers in school ministry.

David also serves on the Compassion Africa's Board of director, a charitable organisation dedicated to help children and their families who are orphaned, deprived or in need, in Sierra Leone West Africa.

David and Jackie's purpose is to affect destiny by providing God's Word to the children and youth of the world. As the book is now being distributed in the schools here the UK, it is with great joy they are starting to see the effect of the power of God's word in the lives of the young people.

Why not join with them in partnership to reach the children and youth of the world, by providing God's love letter to all of them.

http://www.bookofhope.co.uk/historyuk.html

Rev Val Ogden - January 2008

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Val Ogden was born in Manchester – the home of better football – in 1961. She felt called to local preaching at the age of 19, and has been committed to communicating God’s good news in Christ ever since, in many ways, forms and places. She holds degrees in theology from Manchester and Bristol Universities, an MPhil in Ecumenics from Trinity College, Dublin, and is a graduate of the National Broadcasting School. Val worked in education and training in the 80s, and as a programmer/presenter in commercial radio before training for the Methodist ministry. She was ordained in the United Church of Zambia where she served for six years, returning in 1998 to Wolverhampton Trinity Circuit and then to the United College of the Ascension (UCA) as Tutor in Mission Studies. She is now Director of the Selly Oak Centre for Mission Studies, the successor to UCA, at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham. The Centre offers training, research and orientation for global mission among a diverse, international community, and is part of a growing, global mission network of churches and institutions around the world.

http://www.queens.ac.uk/mission/

Pastor Steve Uppal - May 2007

Steve Uppal was born in Wolverhampton in 1974. At the age of five he gave his life to the Lord. It was prophesied that he would travel the world preaching and at thirteen he committed to a wholehearted Christian walk, challenging his friends to examine their lives and to commit totally to the Lord. They started to get together to pray and to read the Bible. By 1988 the group, led by Steve, began to feel challenged to take the “uncompromised gospel” to others. They called themselves “Christian Warriors.” They began to plan their evangelistic activities at weekends and at school holidays and were soon visiting churches and youth events up and down the country. Through the late 1990’s, Steve’s work with the Warriors grew to encompass a number of different activities. As well as becoming involved in local church leadership and youth networking, Steve founded a training school as a pilot programme for one year. In 1999, he began working on a part-time basis for CfAN as an events organiser - work which took him to Africa, to experience first-hand the impact of mass crusades. In November 2000 he began work as Associate Minister of All Nations Christian Centre in Wolverhampton, England, and in May 2001 he was asked to take on the role of Pastor. At All Nations he has brought a new vision to the church based on a “militant” Christianity that wants to see the Kingdom of God forcefully advanced across all nations. The “three pillars” of the church are now overseas missions, actively engaging with all levels of the community through social action, and the training and development of disciples.

http://www.allnations.org.uk/


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