A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

Tue, Dec 13th 2022 at 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Guest Speaker Lord Leslie Griffiths of Burry Port

Lord Griffiths became a local preacher in the Methodist Church of Great Britain in 1963 He completed a Master of Arts in Theology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in 1969, while training for the ministry at Wesley House. He spent most of the 1970s serving the Methodist Church of Haiti, where he was ordained, before returning to Britain to serve in ministries in Caversham, Loughton, and Golders Green. In 1987 Griffiths completed a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

In 1994, he became one of the few people to be elected President of the Methodist Conference whilst still a circuit minister. In this role he was the spiritual and administrative leader of the Methodists in Britain.

In 1996 he became superintendent minister at Wesley's Chapel, London. He retired in 2017 and preached his last sermon on 6 August. However, he returned to take services at Loughton monthly during 2018, when the church there was between ministers. He was created Baron Griffiths of Burry Port, of Pembrey and Burry Port in the County of Dyfed in 2004.

On 1 September 2011, Lord Griffiths was appointed as the thirteenth president of the Boys' Brigade.

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