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Generations of Christian Union members will remember Margaret Weston with affec-tion and gratitude. Her husband, Canon Keith Weston, was a widely-loved speaker in CUs and Margaret often travelled with him, making herself available to talk with students.

From 1964 to 1985, Keith was Rector of St Ebbe’s Church, Oxford. Margaret exercised a pastoral ministry among its students, as among members of the parish. The rectory was then amid some of the most deprived housing in the county.

The Revd Richard Bewes OBE, the former rector of All Souls Church, Langham Place in London, has died aged 84.

Bewes was an influential Christian leader in the UK throughout his life. He was the rector of All Souls from 1983 until his retirement in 2004. He also served on the Church of England Evangelical Council in the 1990s and was on the British Board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association for much of his life.

Timothy Alford went home to glory on 6 December 2018.

I first met Timothy when I was a young pastor in the early 1990s and he was the General Secretary of Africa Inland Mission (AIM). Little was I to know then how much of an influence he would have upon me and the work I am now doing at Pastor Training International (PTI).

The Revd Canon Dr Michael Green (1930 –2019) died peacefully on Wednesday 6 February following ill health.

A persuasive evangelist and distinguished theologian, he was in demand as a speaker until his recent illness.

My friendship with Douglas Dawson began nearly 70 years ago when in 1952 he came to speak at our newly-formed Fellowship of Youth group at Zion, Trowbridge.

Doug’s life began in East London. There were six children in the family connected with the chapel in Hainalt Road, Leyton. Doug left school at 14 and in 1941 he volunteered for the RAF reserves.

Keith Small was one of the foremost Qur’an scholars of our time. His work on early manuscripts was to provoke new questions among secular and Islamic scholars alike.

While at Dallas Theological Seminary, Keith read of Henry Martyn, and resolved to give his life to work among Muslims. He married Celeste Gardner in 1985, equally committed to the Muslim world, and they moved to the UK in 1989, settling in Dewsbury.

On Sunday 16 December at the end of a Christmas service, Megan Franklin, wife of the pastor of St Giles Christian Mission, Islington, eight-months pregnant, slipped on a step and cut her knee.

It seemed so minor that my husband, along with the others present, heard nothing of it. However, it soon turned everything upside down. After suffering headaches Megan visited hospital on Christmas Day and their intensity with resultant loss of sight soon caused alarm. On Friday 28 she phoned to cancel our family visit, yet the following day she permanently lost consciousness. She died as a result of a Strep-A bacterial infection on Sunday 6 January. Mercifully, the doctors were able to deliver the little boy successfully by Caesarean, to become the seventh child in the family.