ABOUT US

My name is Ken Briggs and my wife is Carmen. Well the truth is that it is not really about us at all. It’s all about HIM, that is THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, and what HE has done through us.

Shortly after our marriage in 1976 London UK. My wife and I moved to Malta and at that time it was not easy for a foreign man married to a Maltese to find work, and there was at least a partial language barrier which did not help.

Eventually I secured a job working offshore on an oil rig but not before Carmen was expecting our first child. We named her Donna. Being away so much and with the life of sin that I was living really took its toll on our relationship and before long I was living like a single man doing my own thing. A few years later our second child was born, we named him Anthony. Time went by and things went from bad to worse between us. We still lived together, our marriage hanging on a hair by this time was set to end. Just like so many marriages do these days.

Then by the grace of God He sent a friends sister who had just returned to Malta from living in the UK for some years to our home. And she shared her faith in Jesus Christ alone with my wife and myself.

She shared a message of hope, a message of salvation, that neither my wife had heard in the Roman Catholic Church nor myself being a none practicing Anglican.

We both believed in our own tailor made God, A god of our own understanding. But we both had never known the only true GOD of the bible. Wow! Now that was early 1990. We attended a Christian fellowship where we were taught GODS true word, and that a man must be born again (a spiritual birth) if he wanted to go to heaven. My wife Carmen quickly grasped that message of life and I quickly followed. Five years later which was twelve years after our second son Anthony was born GOD blessed us with a third child we named him Luke.

From the very beginning we opened our home for Christian fellowship and after five years it became very clear to us both what GOD was doing through our lives and our home. As HE added to our numbers we cast out furniture and broke down walls to make room for those that He would add to His Church through faith, working through us by our obedience to preach the gospel of salvation to anyone who would listen to it.

After 11 years of meeting 2 to 3 times a week we out grew our home and needed to look for a larger place to meet. GOD supplied us with our present premises in B’Kara where we have been meeting ever since. We cannot say that it has always been easy, but we would not change one second of it. HE restored our marriage, our home, gave us a meaningful life here, and eternal life with HIM there, He is our only hope. Death has no more sting for us as we live for HIM now, and know we will live with HIM for eternity. HOW COULD WE NOT LOVE HIM.

Pastor Ken and Carmen Briggs.