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Who We Are

Pastor

John Hayward

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I had the privilege of being brought up in a Christian home. My Dad worked as an evangelist for the London City Mission. I came to faith personally at an early age and was aware of the Lord's nearness at times and His gracious blessing over my life. However, it was not until I was 16 that I started to become more committed to Christ and was baptised in water the following year. The Lord graciously started to open the Word to me, and I started to get invitations to speak at mid week meetings, and then my pastor invited me to bring the Word on a Sunday morning. In 2007, I got married to my wonderful wife Helena, and we now have three lovely children, Isaac, Benjamin, and Bethany. It was back in 2011 that I particularly felt the Lord call me into the ministry through the Word. The desire to preach was with me, and then the confirmation came clearly to me through the Scriptures. I started to Pastor a church in South East London which the Lord graciously blessed for a number of years. In 2022 we moved south as we felt led of the Lord to begin a work in the Liss area. It is a real blessing to pastor the flock here at Rehoboth Christian Fellowship. We are thankful to the Lord for all He has begun to do and pray that we might continue to know his hand upon as in the days ahead to his praise and for his glory.