| Full name: | Paul Hazelden |
| Occupation: | General Manager |
| Date of birth: | 26 June 1957 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Marital status: | Married |
| Health: | Excellent |
| Driving Licence: | Current, clean |
| 1968 - 1975 | Roan School for Boys, Maze Hill, London, SE3 |
| 1975 - 1978 | University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey |
| 1972 | GCE '0' level pass: Mathematics |
| 1973 | GCE '0' level passes: Additional Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, English Language, English Literature, French, Physics, Spoken English, Technical Drawing |
| 1975 | GCE 'A' level passes: Mathematics, Physical Science |
| 1978 | BSc Honours degree in Mathematics with Philosophy |
| April 2002 - present | Crisis Centre Ministries
General Manager (permanent) |
| September 2000 - March 2002 | Crisis Centre Ministries
General Manager (temporary position) |
| September 1999 - September 2000 | Europe Now
UK Director |
| November 1992 - September 1999 | The Exchange, Woking, Surrey.
A variety of roles involving system architecture, data dictionary and quality assurance |
| November 1989 - September 1992 | Policy Master PLC, Surrey Research Park, Guildford, Surrey.
Technical Manager |
| September 1982 - October 1989 | Cornhill Insurance Group, Country Head Office, Guildford,
Surrey.
Senior Analyst-Programmer |
| April 1982 - August 1982 | Self employed tutor in Mathematics |
| January 1982 - March 1982 | Golden Bells Bookshop, Ewell Road, Surbiton.
Relief Bookshop Manager (temporary post) |
| October 1980 - November 1981 | University Bookshop, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey.
Assistant Manager (fixed term contract) |
| January 1979 - September 1980 | Bethel Books, Guildford, Surrey.
Self employed manager |
| September 1978 - December 1978 | Army Pensions Office, Stoughton Barracks, Guildford, Surrey.
Clerical officer |
| Summer 1978 | YMCA, Fairthorne Manor, Botley, Hants.
Chaplain (vacation position) |
| Summer 1977 | Institute of Army Education, Catford, London.
Post boy/messenger (vacation position) |
Started attending the West Woolwich Baptist Church Sunday School at the age of 4. At some point in the next 10 years, the church left the Baptist Union, and became in effect a strict Calvinist Exclusive Brethren assembly, calling itself 'The Church in West Woolwich'.
Started attending the local Anglican church at 8 when I joined the Cub Pack. Met my future wife, Sue, in the Sunday School there.
Made a profession of faith at the age of 14. For the next three years, attended both the Anglican and the ex-Baptist/Brethren churches each week. Helped to run the Anglican Sunday School for a while. A lot of misguided attempts at evangelism.
Discovered the Holy Spirit when I went to the University of Surrey. The CU there was at the forefront of the Charismatic Movement at that time, and we had some superb input from many of the early leaders of the movement.
Was brought into leadership in the CU, and involved in a wide number of activities: prayer, leading meetings, teaching, pastoral care, missions, and church politics. As one of the few people present with any theological background, was involved in negotiating our position with the Evangelical but violently anti-Charismatic representatives of UCCF, from the local 'Trav Sec' to numerous meetings with the General Secretary.
There were three Christian groups at the university: Protestant Evangelical (the Christian Union), Protestant Liberal ('Chi-Rho', led by the Anglican Chaplain), and Catholic ('Cath Soc', led by the Roman Catholic Chaplain). In my second year, I developed links with Chi-Rho, and in my final year with Cath Soc, going away with each of these groups. The three Christian groups agreed to hold a joint mission to the University, and I was on the organising committee. The mission, led by Roger Forster early in 1980, was a wonderful success. As far as I know it was at the time, and still is, the only university mission ever to have been held in the UK with the active support and involvement of all Christian groups.
As part of our preparation for the mission, I went one evening to a play in London, and met Sue again. This contact eventually led to her moving down to Guildford, and hence to us getting married. At the time, I was living by faith: working for Kim Tan and technically self-employed selling Christian books, but not making any profit from the books. Amongst other works, I sold over 50 copies of the 3-volume Dictionary of New Testament Theology by Colin Brown; later I heard that the most any UK bookshop had managed to sell was 2 sets.
A group formed around myself and a friend, John Baker, and we found ourselves leading a House Church for several years. We turned down an invitation to take over our local Evangelical Church, and instead took our group into membership in the local United Reformed Church. We played an active part in church life, and helped it through a number of changes over the next few years.
One of these changes was that the church changed from baptising babies to baptising believers. This created a problem in the URC District Council, which rapidly became a major crisis within the URC nationally. Was ordained as a URC Elder, and took part with Derek Wensley, our minister, in meetings with the national leadership and the theological department. Spoke at the National Assembly, and took part in the groundbreaking 'Consultation on Baptism'.
In 1980, I helped Westborough establish 'Evangelism Explosion', an evangelistic training and outreach ministry, handling the administration for several years, as well as talking part. We were one of the first churches in the country to benefit from Evangelism Explosion (or 'Teach and Reach' as the British version was called for a while), and Westborough was used for several national training seminars.
At the same time, we were developing a missions strategy, and starting to send people out into Christian work around the world. One of the couples we sent out were Mark & Sue Howe, who trained with Korky Davey in Bristol and went to pioneer an evangelistic and training ministry in France with Open Air Campaigners.
The support group for Mark & Sue turned into 'Europe Now'. I became the Chairman of the trustees, and then the UK Director. Our involvement in missionary work and evangelism in Europe led us eventually to set up the 'Snowball' training programme for evangelists. Korky & Anni Davey invited us to come and set up the Snowball programme in Bristol.
We ran the training programme for a year, and as a result two new national works have been established in Austria and Slovakia. We discovered in August 2000 that we could not run Snowball in 2000-2001, and I was asked to come in to the Crisis Centre for six months while a replacement for Derek Groves could be found. It is now clear that we will not be able to run Snowball - at least in its present form - for several more years.
In April 2002, my position with the Crisis Centre was made permanent.
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