When Graham and Jenny Cowdery took their step of faith, their grown-up children were surprised. "I think they wondered whether we knew what we were doing!" says Graham.
Graham was treasurer at Fleet Baptist Church in Hampshire when he joined a committee of Baptists, Anglicans, Methodists and United Reformed Church members to look into planting a church on a new housing estate just outside Fleet called Elvetham Heath.
The local council had approached them after Euan Calthorpe, who was selling the land on which the estate would be built, insisted that provision for a church should be included in the legal agreement.
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