David Brown was born in Nottingham in the UK in 1961. Brought up in the Methodist Church he felt the call to become a Lay Preacher at the tender age of 20 whilst a student at Bath University, becoming fully accredited in 1984. For 25 years he led worship, developing a distinctive preaching style based on narratives. Determined to engage with his congregations he cast his sermons in the guise of stories, enabling the listeners to become caught up in the characters and allowing him to explore complex and sometimes emotive issues from the perspective of an observer, subjects that might have been