I was born in July 1960 in the village of Edwinstowe in North Nottinghamshire, England; a former coal mining village close to the local mine, Thoresby Colliery. When I left school and began a career I entered the mining industry and spent 10 years, first as a craft mechanical apprentice, and then training and educating to become an engineering manager in the mines. They were tough years, but in that time God taught me many unforgettable lessons of life and how things are in the world. In recent years I have written my memoirs of those days, if for no other reason, to give the benefit of my experience to the new generation that know little of what it was like now the mines have closed (The Memoirs of a Sherwood Miner - Amazon). When I finally left the industry in 1988 I moved into engineering software development which is something I have been doing professionally ever since, and I am the owner of software that is used globally in certain engineering industries.

My parents founded and led a Pentecostal church in the nearby village of New Ollerton where we moved and lived from age 13, returning to Edwinstowe later when I left home. I had heard and accepted the gospel of salvation from a young age, but later needed to overcome the challenges of youth and returned to Christ not long after I entered the mining industry. From that time I was totally committed and dived headlong into working out my faith. However, as is true for many, I had to work my way through many things I had grown up with that I now broadly categorise under the term 'religion'. In time that led to some real epiphany moments that led me out of religion and into real relationship with God. Not that I hadn't had this all along, but it was to some degree hindered by those religious barriers until I grew up in my faith and overcame them, as God led me through to maturity in my faith.

I took many roles in church during my years - prayer/intercession, youth leader, homegroups, evangelism etc. - but after some time those realisations I spoke of led me to some exciting times where I began to explore the power of God in the form of healings and miracles which we did on the streets of Nottingham. That is an ongoing form of evangelism I have engaged in ever since in a number of UK cities, including London, and it is perhaps the place where I find God more than ever unleashes his grace and love through me to others in evangelism.

When I was nearing age 50, in 2010, God began to lead me in a new direction, which was to begin to write. Until that time I had felt restrained from doing that, but the time came when God's direction led me to use the literary skills I had developed over my career. The first book I wrote - God's Plan for the Ages - is more or less a download of my faith to the point it had developed over the years. It was intended to be 'strong meat', rather than milk, and so contains many challenging thoughts, but is a book that expresses some of the deepest beliefs I bear in my spirit that underpin my faith and my relationship to my wonderful and glorious Father, God.

Over the years there were many seasons where God led me and taught me many things. Because of my early experience of 'religion' and the problems that caused, I was led to examine the whole concept of 'church' and the way we conduct ourselves when we come to meet together. Over time God helped me get to the bottom of the issues I had there on the way we do church, and eventually directed me to write a book defining what church was originally, and what he intends it to be again before this age is done. It is titled - The Original Church to Come - and is published on Amazon, but will soon be put online and free on this website in full.

Once I had finished writing the book on church I asked God how he would want me to promote it. In answer to that prayer, and the discovery I made of a hearts desire to move in a greater way in the prophetic gift, God led me to write another important book that had in fact been developing in my spirit for at least 30 years. That book is titled - The 2020 Vision of the End Times - and as the title suggests it focuses on some key global changes that are coming to the world in the year 2020 as we approach the end times. That brings me up to date, except that now I am directed by the Lord to release this book on this website, free of charge, with the other Christian books I have written to follow in due course.

That is my story in brief, and a precis of my ministry to you and the world. I pray and believe that you will be blessed by what God has given me to bring in my writings. Please feel free to contact me or comment if you wish to give me any feedback on these works, or anything else that is on your mind.

Many Blessings

TREVOR MADDISON