After a radical, life changing encounter with Jesus, Paul left the fire service in Glasgow to train at Moorlands college and was then ordained into the ministry in Barnstaple, North Devon. Liz graduated from Glasgow University, then years later became a teacher. Over the past 35 years Paul and Liz have pastored three churches in Barnstaple, Bournemouth, and Amersham, also during this time they have had opportunities to lecture at Moorlands, travel to various countries to preach, teach and encourage the church and individuals to reach their full potential in God. After 35 years in local ministry, during a sabbatical, they both felt the Holy Spirit clearly call them out of the local church to serve the wider church with Encounter heart to heart. Their longing and passion is that everyone would encounter the love, grace and forgiveness of Jesus and be led to the Father which would bring them into personal renewal and a deeper relationship with Him. They travel extensively around the U.K. ministering under the anointing and gifting of the Holy Spirit, in a variety of churches, retreats and conferences. They are parents to three children two of whom live in Worthing with their spouses, one beautiful daughter who resides in heaven and four delightful grandchildren.