Norman Hooks

Hi, I am a retired Minister with pastoral oversight for the Rayleigh Methodist Church.

I was born and lived the first 19 years of my life in West Belfast, N. Ireland. I am married to Jan, have 5 grown up children, with 7 grandchildren. We met at Cliff College, Derbyshire, and since then have lived, studied and worked in Berwick-on-Tweed, Somerset, Scotland, back to N. Ireland, then to Essex, over to Bristol, to Buckingham as a Methodist Minister, and then in 2007 to Southend.

I love being with the family, enjoy exercise, play the cornet (not very well), but my real passion is Jesus and seeing lives transformed by his amazing love and grace! I believe that the Christian life should be profoundly spiritual, and also deeply practical.

God Bless.