Our Pastor
Pastor Steven Green
Steven was born in Blackpool in 1956, but because his father was a policeman, travelled around the counties of Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, and Merseyside, so doesn’t really regard anywhere in particular as ‘home territory’. He was converted at the age of 16 in the Wirral, and was helped greatly by the Brethren Assembly there. Whist reading for a degree in Aeronautical Engineering, he also trained as a Production Engineer with British Aerospace, working in the production-management of the Hawker Siddeley 125 Executive Jet, the European Airbus, and eventually becoming a Chartered Engineer.
Steven met his wife, Jane, at the Merseyside Assemblies Camp near Pwllheli, and they were married in 1980. They have 2 grown-up children, James and Emily, both teachers and they both love the Lord. They spent the first few years of their lives in Tanzania, Africa, where Steven was Chief Engineer for Mission Aviation Fellowship. (M.A.F. is an organisation which flies light aircraft in remote locations, providing transport for indigenous church workers, and missionaries, and provides an emergency medical and evacuation service).
The ‘call’ to missionary work in Tanzania came after he felt a burden for those who had never heard about Jesus Christ, and who had very few opportunities to be taught the Bible. That involved him in further training in aircraft maintenance and some years at Bible College. After some time, Steven became involved in preaching in Tanzania (in-between fixing aircraft!) and he felt increasingly concerned for his own people in Britain, who it seemed were just as pagan as people in ‘darkest Africa’. They needed to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ too!
Steven came to Grace Baptist Church, Hitchin in July 1997, having previously been for 5 years the Pastor of a Baptist Church in Wrexham, North Wales. Wrexham is also Jane’s birthplace, where she qualified as a nurse. Jane still works 2 days a week in a supervisory post in the local elderly care hospital in Hitchin.
Steven’s other interests include serving on the Home Council of the Red Sea Mission, lecturing at the European Missionary Fellowship School of Biblical Studies, and acting as a Visitor for the Three Counties Group of FIEC churches.
So that’s why he is in Hitchin, and assures everybody reading this that if he can help them in any way (perhaps answering a question which is bothering you?) then he would count it a privilege. Steven says, “I know I’m biased, but the folk at Grace Baptist Church are great—they are friendly, loyal, hard-working, eager hearers of God’s Word, and united in their desire to reach out to those who need to hear the good news about Jesus Christ. I’m honoured to be their Pastor.”
