Church Men's Breakfast

Imagine waking up, thinking today will be a normal day then for no reason other than you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, you are arrested for murdering someone you never met! You are interrogated, charged, beaten by inmates so badly whilst on remand that you end up in hospital and then before you've time to catch breath you're sentenced to 7 years in prison for a crime you never committed!
This is the story of Noel Fellowes who spoke to an enthralled audience at the men's breakfast in February, the story of a man who went through what can only be described as a nightmare, a man who now travels around the world telling people how good God has been to him!

Noel Fellowes talked of his journey from disbelief, via fear, terror and anger to hatred and eventually true forgiveness of the Police officers who withheld his watertight alibi in order that they could say they always got their man.

What was most compelling about his story was that it was not the taking away of 7 years of his life that tormented him most, but the hatred he held inside, which came out in nightmares that tore him apart. But thankfully, Noel's mother and brothers were Christians, and they didn't give up on him.

His brother John gave him a Bible that sat by his bedside, which he eventually  read and his brother Roger challenged him to find out what God was saying to  him So he went to Church, an alien environment, but one where people  showed their love for each other and for him. Whilst there something inside  changed - his nightmares stopped and he started his -New Life' - not an easy  life  it being tough trying to make the 'right' decisions every day, but a life that would lead to forgiveness. A new life because he dared to read the bible!

 Andy Duff