At a meeting at Hope Church, Gravesend, Peter Williams, principal of Tyndale House, presented a compelling vision for a new Creation Study Centre in Cambridge.
The Gravesend meeting marked the end of Stephen Lloyd’s 16-year ministry as pastor at Hope Church, and his move to Cambridge to establish the new study centre with Biblical Creation Trust.
Speaking from Acts 14, Peter Williams observed that the people of Lystra reacted to miracles according to their pagan worldview, but Paul and Barnabas were able to present a better explanation. So today we can tell a better story than humanism and secularism; the Biblical account of creation and redemption makes better sense of the world.
Reaching a new generation
Peter Williams and Stephen Lloyd have been friends since their time as students at Cambridge when they prayed together for a recovery of belief in the historical reliability of Scripture. They testified that they were encouraged to see answers to those prayers, and hoped that the study centre would reach a new generation of students and scholars in Cambridge with a Biblical view of creation.
The elders of Hope Church gave thanks for Stephen’s part-time ministry as pastor alongside work for Biblical Creation Trust. They affirmed the church’s wholehearted support for the new venture. The establishment of the study centre is a leap of faith for Stephen and his family, who have moved to Cambridge trusting the Lord for financial provision. He described the project as starting a study centre ‘ex nihilo’.
Jesus wept
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