Matt Parkins in Australia

Matt Parkins in Australia

Matt Parkins, together with his wife Jo, are from the UK. He has been blogging since early 2002 and using the internet since before the web was created and ascii art was still cool.  He decided recently to collect some of the articles and ponderings he had written over the past years into a single Christian theology & spirituality blog and continue adding to it.

After school and college Matt left home to work at Gremlin Interactive/Infogrames as a games tester. He then moved on to games programming as he had hoped from the beginning. Matt worked in the Research & Development team at various times and was a programmer on Micro Machines (PS2, GameCube, XBox) and UEFA Challenge (PS1, PS2, PC). The Sheffield studio was closed in 2003.

Matt then spent time on staff at St Thomas’ Anglican & Baptist church in Sheffield, UK, as a PA & Ministerial Assistant to Mike Breen and afterwards set up his own business doing PHP contracting & web development. In 2005 both he & Jo sensed a call to leave Sheffield and serve missionary friends around the globe as led by God whilst still doing the odd bit of contract programming.  In 2008, after 2.5 years in Australia as Young Adult Ministers, they returned to the UK to pursue ordained ministry through the Elim Pentecostal Church.

Matt is now a Pastor of York Elim Pentecostal Church.  Matt & Jo have two daughters, Scarlett & Sienna.  Matt has a few other websites - please support them by visiting or linking to them: