TOWER HILL, October 1986. I gathered with experienced missioners and young Evangelists to take part in my first ever Open Air evangelistic event, in the surrounds of the Tower of London, the place which had seen the execution of many a heretic in the past :-).

I remember a brown chair upon which we perched, a target for the ravens and hecklers, of whom there were always around 6-8 waiting to answer the missionaries’ claims. It was not so much throwing Christians to the lions as having two rival competing groups shouting at each other and entertaining the tourists, or leaving them thoroughly bewildered.

I had a go. I stood up on the chair and said, ‘I would like to to talk about Jesus’. To which one of the hecklers replied, ‘you mean my friend from Madrid’

I had better experiences particularly with my trusty sketchboard of Open Air Campaigners fame with the ladder writing and simple gospel explanations in Tower Hill, the West End, Putney, Elephant and Castle and later Newcastle and Mexborough.

I would still do it again