tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846031455080482087.post4456430375483563763..comments2024-03-16T00:16:10.703-07:00Comments on Mike's Musings: Tributes to Ernest LloydMike Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02475677258430349492noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846031455080482087.post-73734946694973960132012-12-29T10:32:50.025-08:002012-12-29T10:32:50.025-08:00Dear Jennifer
I was interested to read your memor...Dear Jennifer<br /><br />I was interested to read your memories of Ernest Lloyd and of my Aunt Gwen Jenkins.<br /><br />I don't know whether you attended Gwen and her husband John's gatherings at their home 'Sursum Corda', 10 Denmark Road, Gloucester - Ernest was often there. My family and I remember in particular Ernest's special Passover Meal.<br /><br />We still have John and Gwen's photograph album with many photos of Ernest and the assembled crowd. You may be amongst them.<br /><br />Gwen and John gave hospitality to many missionaries, pastors and service people during the war and afterwards, keeping in touch with many people who had signed their visitors' book.<br /><br />God bless<br />Vivienne Ruth Rogers (nee Thomas)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846031455080482087.post-29422494916597657572010-12-31T20:18:06.838-08:002010-12-31T20:18:06.838-08:00This is from my wife, Jennifer who writes:
I along...This is from my wife, Jennifer who writes:<br />I along with my husband, Peter, are one of the thousands who have been impacted hugely by our much loved friend in Christ. When I read the news, I felt a chunk of my life had gone too and was deeply upset.<br /><br />For me my connection with dear Ernest must go back 55/56 years when as a 7 or 8 year old girl, I first met Mr Lloyd through my parents and also a great family friend, Gwen Jenkins of Gloucester. Through Gwen & Ernest I was introduced to the work of Jewish Mission and as a young girl gave weekly some of my pocket money to the mission by having a Rachel’s Tomb mission box. Later I helped collect these for Gwen!<br /><br />Through my parents hospitality, Mr. Lloyd often shared meals with us when ministering in Gloucester. As a teenager, I was able to invite Mr Lloyd to speak at our youth meetings.<br /><br />After I married in 1967 and moved to Surrey, Peter & I maintained contact with dear Ernest and we were able to introduce him to the church we attended. It was always a pleasure to have Ernest stay over with us in our home and we have so many many fond memories of times together, and also of dear Jessie also on latter occasions in the Surrey days. His passion for God & sharing the Gospel through the Old Testament Scriptures were amazing. I always felt like ‘Mary’ – sitting at his feet and soaking in his wealth of knowledge and wisdom. He was always a wake early, and whenever Peter took him a cup of tea first thing in the morning, he would be reading the Scriptures. Then of course, the wonderful sense of humour Ernest had... and on one occasion his laughter had him almost toppling backwards on our swivel lounge chair!<br /><br />God led Peter & I to help be involved with the building of what is now known as the London Hillsong church from 1993 and from where God would then bring us to Perth WA in 2001. During all these years too, we have maintained contact, receiving his regular Christmas greeting card with different Scripture each year, along with increasingly hard to decipher type written letters!<br /><br />Wonderfully, at the end of November 2008 Peter & I were able to visit dear Ernest in Portrush, along with our younger son Paul who lives in Newcastle on Tyne. We visited his home, went out for dinner. We booked in a guest house for the night and next day we drove Ernest out to visit one of his favourite bays along the coast. Wisdom, humour and laughter were shared together. Before leaving Ernest in his home we prayed together.... our son prayed ‘thanking God that even tho roughly there was 30 years difference between the 3 generations with different interests, there was an incredible unity through the relationship we all had through our precious Saviour’. It was very moving and special.<br /><br /><br />My last conversation with dear Ernest was shortly after his birthday this year when I managed to get through from Perth to his home at a respectable time ... as ever he was asking about all the family and by name and so encouraging. What a brilliant mind he had and so caring of people.<br /><br />Dear Ernest is a real Hero & Giant of the Faith, who totally laid down his own life to serve His Master. What an amazing legacy he has left, and with thousands of untold stories of lives being influenced massively by him, but one day all will be revealed. He will be hugely missed. I personally have lost some one very precious to me who was an incredible influence on my life. Ernest & Jessie his dear wife were much loved by my family He will be sorely missed. However, we know it is not the end, but just a temporary parting. For dear Ernest “for me to live is Christ, to die is Gain”. Thank God for the absolute assurance we have of Eternal Life.<br /><br />Jennifer & Peter of Perth W AustraliaUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11180640186305511606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846031455080482087.post-42676269902239322512010-12-23T03:25:57.806-08:002010-12-23T03:25:57.806-08:00My father, George Craig - now 94 - telephoned me t...My father, George Craig - now 94 - telephoned me to tell me that Ernest had died. My father, born and brought up in Aberdeen, but who now lives near me in Bournemouth, was approached by Graham Swift in 1946 and asked if he would arrange meetings for Ernest. For many years Ernest would stay in our home while speaking all over the NE of Scotland - my brother and I remember with much fondness Ernest's fun at the meal table - pronouncing himself as 'Mr Gooblequick' who would come and eat our food if we did not eat up ours more quickly!<br />My parents and Ernest had a long and valued friendship - Dad spoke to Ernest on the telephone just a few days ago.<br />Ernest was a towering figure in every way - especially as an example of straightforward godliness and faithfulness. It has been a privilege to know him as a friend of the family for 64 years. <br />David Craig.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12476147458303246824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846031455080482087.post-45150996834613689912010-12-22T13:25:21.178-08:002010-12-22T13:25:21.178-08:00We pray that many of those who heard him speak, an...We pray that many of those who heard him speak, and those to whom he witnessed may be saved even now through the news of his death.<br />Our loss, but his gain.<br /><br />(Mike, we met in Ness last summer, and you were good enough to keep us in touch with your work in Wales in the summer. Blessing, Finlay and Anne)Homeschool on the Crofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03400742529025230433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846031455080482087.post-44637764562342556382010-12-22T12:06:51.562-08:002010-12-22T12:06:51.562-08:00I had the great privelege of meeting him a few mon...I had the great privelege of meeting him a few months ago. It was so exciting to meet someone who is a Giant of the Faith to me. Yet he was so humble. And my what a memory!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com