Pastor David Piper                                                                 Mrs Pat Piper                  

Pastor David Piper is a Suffolk man born and bred. He was born in Coney Weston in 1943, moving to the village of Beyton when he was two years old. H e was brought up in Beyton, where he attended the local Anglican church, singing in the choir and 'blowing' the church organ for a number of years.

He also was taken by his mother as a small child to Thurston Methodist Church, where, as he says, he was chapel cleaner at the age of two! in other words, as his mother played the organ he polished the floors with his bottom.

 He was confirmed into the Anglican Church and also made a member of the Methodist Church, but in neither case did he find the peace of God, or more especially find peace which comes from sins forgiven.

It was only after he started attending the Baptist Chapel at Bradfield St George (now Bradfield & Rougham), at the age of 13, that David came to see his need of the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal saviour.

He was converted and subsequently baptised and joined the church, where he served the Lord in various capacities over a number of years.

Whilst at Bradfield, David met and married Pat herself a Bradfield girl, and after a while they become very exercised about the needs of the smaller fellowship of Rattlesden, and subsequently they joined that fellowship in 1974, where David was soon  appointed a deacon and church secretary.

David And Pat have two daughters Fiona and Lindsey who are both married, and have three grandchildren Archie, Rosie and Miles.

In 1985 David become Moderator of the Association of Grace Baptist Churches (East Anglia), having served widely amongst the churches as an itinerant Preacher, as secretary of the Suffolk F.O.Y. for eleven years; as Home Mission & Beach Mission secretary; as a committee member since 1972; as minute secretary.

In 1988 David left full time employment as Company secretary in an engineering firm to become Administrator of the Association of Grace Baptist Churches (East Anglia) on a part time basis.

Almost at the same time he was called to become Pastor at Rattlesden, to which he continues to do so with the good guidance of God.