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The PTS is pleased to announce that the new post of Director of Ministry will be filled by the Rev Jeremy Brooks, at present pastor of Salem Baptist Church in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire.
Mr Brooks is 33 years old and was born into a clergy family, being the son of the Rev and Mrs Richard Brooks. His father was for many years pastor of York Evangelical Church, and now ministers at the Dales Evangelical Church, Matlock. Jeremy Brooks was converted in childhood, and even during this period had a strong conviction the Lord was calling him to the ministry. After finishing his education he worked for six years in Sales and Marketing, four of those years with Evangelical Press. In 1999 the church at York sent him for ministerial training through the London Reformed Baptist Seminary from which, following four years part-time study, he received the Diploma in Theology and Pastoral Studies.
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| He was ordained to the ministry and inducted to the pastorate at Salem in April 2001. Mr Brooks is married to Lydia, daughter of the Rev and Mrs Malcolm Watts, and they have four children.
It is hoped that Mr Brooks will take up the PTS work at the beginning of September, and the intention is that he will be based centrally to the UK in the West Midlands. He will be working as leader of a team of five other Wickliffe Preachers, two fulltime in East Anglia and Wales, and three part-time, combining their work in Scotland, the South West of England and the North West with pastorates. The Chairman of the PTS Council, the Rev Gordon Murray, said, “We are very pleased to be able to appoint a man of the spiritual calibre of Mr Brooks who has a real vision for the work of the Society in maintaining our Protestant heritage and helping the churches to meet the challenges of today. We’re sure the church at Ramsey will be sad to lose their pastor, but we pray that the Lord will soon meet their need”.
Speaking about his new appointment, the Rev Jeremy Brooks commented, “I count it a great privilege to be called to serve with the PTS. We live in times of increasing opposition to the gospel, but also of tremendous opportunity. It’s my prayer that the Society will be much used of the Lord in assisting Christians and churches throughout the land to rise to the hour”. |
