We have been featuring different people who are 'Running with their dream in the Newsletter. We have been doing this in order to get to know a little about them and what their original dream was and how things are progressing. This month I would like to introduce you to Steve who is a Senior Youth Worker within the Youth Team.


I get excited when God is at work.

I'm not sure there is any experience better than joining in with what He is doing and watching it unfold. It's not just the big things; it's the smaller stuff as well - the bits where there are so many coincidences that make you realise that something of the Kingdom is happening.

Coming to Farnham has been a great example of seeing God at work in this way.

Having asked God about changing jobs we found ourselves, after a couple of false starts, traveling back to a town smack in the centre of a series of interlocking circles marking out where we had a dream to work some 10 months earlier.

Two local education authorities pointed out that our three children may have to go to separate schools initially when we moved to Farnham. Not the best news to receive given that our twins, Molly and Callum, would be starting school this academic year. Yet as I write this all three of our children start very happily at Hale Primary, excited by Bug Club and a swimming pool!

Knowing where the kids were to go to school we then set about finding a house to rent. After a couple of false starts we found a fantastic house that we fell in love with but way out of our budget. Yet after a couple of weeks the same house re-appeared on the internet at a reduced rent; just within budget!

Somehow we moved between a 40th birthday (mine) and a gruelling summer schedule of New Wine, Soul Survivor and a 14 day mission to the Townships in Cape Town. Again God's hand was on the family at home and abroad!

So here we are. Let me introduce the clan to you. I'm currently starting my 15th year of full time youth work in a Christian context, prior to that I enjoyed the fringe benefits of being a Travel Agent for eight years. I'm half Springbok, half Lion by decent with a passion for youth work, sport, science fiction, illustration and cooking. Amber is a primary school teacher by trade with a love of youth work, people, reading and cooking. Having spent the last seven years in Birmingham we are both returning to our southern roots and the extended family that live nearby. Bethan (7) Molly and Callum (4) are currently losing their Brum accents and are loving big parks and being nearer to their grandparents.

We are a family that are committed to joining in with God in the things He's doing, big and small. We find ourselves in Farnham with an expectation of exciting times ahead and look forward to joining in with many of you in the years to come.

Steve Delves