Roger T. Forster
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Roger Forster at Ichthus Leader's Conference 2009, Croydon: sporting customary knitwear.
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Roger Thomas Forster 1 March 1933 Wood Green, London |
| Residence | Forest Hill, London |
| Education | MA from the University of Cambridge, Mathematics and Theology |
| Occupation | Pastor, author, charity worker |
| Spouse(s) | Faith Forster (m. 1965) |
| Website | http://www.ichthus.org.uk |
Roger Thomas Forster (born 1933) is the leader of Ichthus Christian Fellowship, a neocharismatic Evangelical Christian Church that forms part of the British New Church Movement. In 1965 he married Faith Forster (1941- ) and has three children.
Forster studied Mathematics and Theology at Cambridge University from 1951 to 1954. He was a contemporary of David Watson,Michael Harper, Michael Green and David Sheppard. By the standards of his later evangelical beliefs, he considered his Methodist upbringing to be both liberal and without a clear presentation of the Christian gospel. When he heard an explanation of it by an Anglican bishop (Hugh Gough) at the Christian Union, he decided, "to follow Christ." Three years later, he reported an experience of being baptised in the Spirit which he described as "sine curves of love going through the room." Sider observes that the foundations of later values began to take shape at this point: a commitment to combine evangelical ministry with social action, together with recognition and service to all true people of God, irrespective of church affiliation.
After graduating, he became an officer in the Royal Air Force, serving from 1954 to 1956. On 18 November 1954, he was commissioned in the Education Branch of the RAF as a pilot officer (national service commission). He was promoted to flying officer on 18 November 1955. He transferred to the reserve (national service list) on 5 December 1956, thereby ending his short RAF career.
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