Darren and Nikki Bovis-Coulter

Because Of Your Grace” featuring Harun Kotch from the album “The Season of Singing” recorded and produced by Ross Gill

Back in January I shared with you Mustard Seed Songs’ latest project “Theophilus- The Musical- A Journey of Faith”. I said that we had filmed two episodes and now we are nearly ready to contact church leaders to see if they might be interested in using the resource as a supplement to “Alpha” or “Christianity Explored”, or as a separate 4- 8 week course for church home groups and their guests.
So yesterday I was with my old mate Darren Bovis – Coulter watching his computer “wizardry” as he created a promo video for church leaders.
Darren and his lovely wife Nikki have, from the start, been indispensable to Mustard Seed Songs, producing the His Story multi-media, countless amounts of artwork and design for CDs, DVDs, brochures, banners and in addition the websites for Risen! The Musical (www.Risenthemusical.com) Mustard Seed Songs (www.mustardseedsongs.org.uk) and His Story (www.Hisstory.org.uk) Darren also designed and built the stage set for the 1918 Risen! The Musical Theatre in Education tour which reached over 4000 children.
Darren read the prayers at Caroline and my wedding so that is an indication of how much I rate him.
Darren was a Pastor in Coventry where he instigated the first live professional performance of Risen! The Musical at the Coventry Pentecost Festival of May 2015. We also co- wrote today’s featured song “Because Of Your Grace.”
On one of his birthdays, Darren posted a mini bio of which an extract is below:
Some will know my full story and others not but looking back on my life and reflecting on how far I’ve come, today has just been the most amazing day.
I wasn’t brought up in a Christian home but it was in a loving family, unfortunately when my parents split up I found myself in a difficult …place which ended up with a period of homelessness, and as a result of that homelessness I went on a journey where I met my biological father, Paul, who at the time was on a journey through Faith which in turn led me to Christ. Many other wonderful people were also part of my journey which was full of stories, twists, turns and life can be so ‘exciting??’ sometimes.
I went to Uni where I met my wife Nikki and we lived in Portsmouth for about 14 years. Now my journey to Faith started a few years earlier when I was listening to a preacher one night speaking about all the things you want in life, the house the wife, the boat the car the whatever, but at the end of the day it all turns the dust and the one thing that doesn’t is the love of God.
So here I was 40 years old with the house, the wife, the boat, the car, the family, the kids and cats, a thriving business etc., when God said to me, pack it all up and come and follow me, the things that you do, the skills that you’ve got, don’t take them to the grave without serving me first, so I uprooted my family in obedience and came to Coventry to work in what I thought was the dream job where God wanted me and my family to be. This was not to be and after a short time, the role came to an abrupt end.
We found ourselves living in an area we didn’t know, and it seemed all our new family and friends of church had gone. We felt very lonely and redundant… Not required!
But it was Nikki that had the wisdom and said there’s a church just round the corner Limbrick Wood Baptist Church, and long story short, having looked for many different jobs the church and I agreed to dip our toe in the water and see if God was calling me to serve there…
And I can assure you that God was very much calling Darren to serve there -he was a great blessing to that community and now he has been called to Pastor in Falmouth, Cornwall- so his journey of faith continues …..

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