Simon "Tigger" Price - An Appreciation
Within days of his arrival in the Hundred Acre Wood that is Highfields Church, I noticed remarkable similarities to A.A. Milne’s character, Tigger, in Simon’s personality!
In all but his fastidious tidiness, Simon Price is Tigger on Speed! It was bounce, bounce, bounce whenever he was around! Some of his ideas were mad but great, and together we crashed happily into a heap of laughter at another kite that didn’t fly!! I know that the stairwell outside my study will be a quieter but less exciting place.
Energy, enthusiasm and encouragement have been among Simon’s greatest gifts to the Church for five years. His positive can do attitude has taken so many challenges and turned them into opportunities for the gospel. It’s a quality worth having on any team.
His infectious investment in so many younger men has been a particularly effective element of his ministry. Outstanding too, has been his servant heart which has seen him set up meeting rooms, tidy the Church, make coffee and generally be the "go to guy" for so many of the hidden elements of Church life and Staff interactions.
His preaching ministry and leadership has been increasingly and widely valued. And without his wonderfully supportive wife Sharon, whose own teaching gifts and personal work have been enormously significant, Tigger would not have been half as bouncy!
It is a sad but ultimately positive outcome that the Prices’ need the room now to develop fur-ther. And that can best happen through their senior leadership ministry of the strategic Kensington Baptist Church in Bristol.
I believe that after five years with us there is a large amount of Wise Owl in him now. Mercifully we have not turned him into Eeyore.
I have tended to nickname him "Priceless", and so, with his wife and his children, Ted and Phoebe, that is how they will remain to us.
We thank them and pray God’s blessing upon them.
Peter
