WHAT A WEEK! It's been a tiring one and quite frankly I can't wait til the Easter break . . . .

A rollercoaster emotions started for me last Friday when I received a text from my Mum (who's currently writing a book in the middle of nowhere in Uganda where she runs a charity).

The text informed us all to pray for one of our elders, David, from our church 'back home' (in Macclesfield, Cheshire). He had suffered two heart attacks out of the blue and was not in a good way.

Instantly I went to the loos at work and prayed, feeling confused and desperate for his life.

You see this man was responsible for me, my sister, my ex-boyfriend, many of my friends and family becoming Christians. David and his wife ran the kids camps where we all became Christians.

David and his family have shaped the life I now live 20years later after first hearing the gospel.

Many texts and prayers went around, then on Saturday morning on a gloriously sunny day an hour before I was going to a fantastic Christian wedding in London my sister and I both received a text saying David had 'gone to be with the Lord'.

What a blow . . . the wedding service was then a complete mix of emotions. Seeing the jubilation at my friends getting married and the worship was amazing. Then at one point during one of the hymns I thought of David and realised if it hadn't been for him and his ministry I wouldn't even know these people I was celebrating with as I wouldn't have been a Christian at this point in my life I doubt. So I got very tearful and thankful at the same time!

All in all it made me realise the impact a persons life can have on so many others and the implications to the lives they go on to lead and the friends they make and so forth.

I am fortunate enough to have got the time off work next week to go to his funeral and the 'celebration and thanksgiving' of his life back at our home church.

I'd like to encaourage all of you at this time to never be ashamed of the gospel or speaking out to your friends, family and work mates about Easter and what it means. You just never know the impact you're going to make. lots of love S x