Grant, is an Anglican minister serving here in the Netherlands. He is the pastor of All Saints Anglican Church. All Saints is an English speaking international church in Amersfoort. All Saints was planted in December 2015. He is married to Jolanda, (who is Dutch), and has two children, aged 16 and 13. Grant and his family have lived in Amersfoort, since November 2015.
He is originally from Northern Ireland. He became a Christian, as a university student in England, in 1993. After University, worked for two years with Operation Mobilisation in Budapest, Hungary, before training as a Church of England / Anglican minister in England in Durham.
He is thankful for the varied opportunities and life God has blessed him with. He feels blessed to be able to lead All Saints, a church which sharpens him as a Christian, stretches him in ministry, and he feels fortunate to lead such a lovely community of committed believers. All Saints seeks to be a 3Dimensional church – Up, In and Out (Up – worship and prayer, In – lifelong discipleship and deep community, Out (both global and local) – serving others and evangelism).
His hobbies – spending time with people, movies (one favourite film is Shawshank Redemption, and he enjoys the Indiana Jones series), books, biking, likes interesting museums, history and enjoys living in the Netherlands.