Elizabeth Welch looks back on a lifetime of calling

I first heard God calling me to ministry at the age of 15 in Johannesburg, where my father was serving as a Congregational minister. I was out walking in the South African countryside and heard God’s voice. I realised that I had a few challenges to face before I could fulfil this call. In particular, resolving the theological and practical tensions of living in a theoretically Christian country that was ruled by people from the white Dutch Reformed Church, which resulted in the evils of apartheid…

Elizabeth Welch is a retired URC minister and author

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This is an extract from an article published in the November 2024 edition of Reform

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