The first global House Church movement – UCB Radio

Gill Silver was born into a nominally Jewish home, with a father who had left his orthodox Jewish routes for radical communism and a mother who enquired into most religions except for Christianity but found no satisfaction in any.

Leaving a girls’ public school at sixteen, she first trained privately as a Nursery Nurse in a Dr Barnardo Home, followed by General nurses’ training; Midwifery; Bible College and finally teacher’s training at secondary level. This led to being accepted to teach at secondary level in an independent girls’ school in north London, teaching Religious Studies and establishing a Child Care and Development Course; followed by tutoring posts in Further Education to student Nursery Nurses till her retirement, all of which she loved.

It was in her late teens that she was first really challenged about biblical truths in Scripture, but it took a further seven years before she began to understand the serious implications of living ‘the normal Christian life’ and the life-changing consequences of being brought into true ‘new birth’. There have been many ongoing trials and not a few challenges, but through it all, she has known His abundant grace and long-suffering patience in slowly being conformed to all that He has purposed. To have been brought into the life of the Christian Fellowships, many of which are mentioned in this book, along with personal testimonies, has been something for which she will be eternally grateful; realising that without knowing the reality of receiving a new heart and new spirit, living the Christian life would be an impossibility!