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We're in Leeds and we thought while we're here, we'd pop in and have a little chat with Simon Hall.

Who's Simon Hall, Dave?

Simon Hall. He's a friend of mine that goes back many years actually and he was involved in

planting a church called Revive in Leeds.

So I think we're just pretty much, as you know, with Nomad Extra, it's more of a

narrative. Indeed. So we're just going to ask him a bit about his life and his kind of journey

into new forms of church. That's right. So we'll be back in a minute with Simon.

Okay, Simon, thanks very much for giving us your time at the moment.

It's a pleasure.

Perhaps you'd just like to kind of give us your story, where you came from and where you are now with this whole new forms of church and stuff like that?

I'm not from a church-going family.

And I think that probably has shaped me to a certain extent because I did try a bit of everything

before I became a Christian in my mid-teens.

And eventually I found my way to a very lively and flourishing charismatic church in the mid-80s. I had a youth pastor, I had a big youth ministry,

and I found lots of Christian friends and at the time I was really struggling with

my identity before I became a Christian I was big into heavy metal and I did the whole burning my

denim jacket which had taken me three years to buy all the patches and studs for,

and getting rid of all my records and everything, and trying to like Cliff Richard.

But slowly...

That's a tough calling, isn't it?

Yeah, but without anyone saying anything, I'd got the impression that that was what was required.

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