Earl Soham Baptist Church - who are we?
Charity Quin
You could say that Charity Quin has Anglican blood running through her since she was born in a London vicarage, her dad became a bishop and she married a vicar’s son! She started singing at the age of five, incidentally at the same time that she found her faith.
The first band she was in was called Street People Pageant, whom she went on tour with in the seventies. The band rehearsed at ESBC. Charity performed at the first Greenbelt Festival (1974) at Charsfield.
After marrying Rob they packed everything into a Mini (it was 1977) and landed at Monewden, lured by the “Koinonia Community” associated with the Baptist Church. They lived in Laxfield and finally Framlingham, where she organised the Angels’ Delight outreach event for the town in 2000.
At age five her parents took her to a meeting where she first put her trust in Jesus and gave her heart to Him, but it took a further 24 years before her “on/off” faith really matured through her Baptism in the Holy Spirit, and then her faith became fully alive.
So why has she ended up at a Baptist Church? “My friends are there,” she says. “I keep trying to leave but keep coming back! There’s a real honesty about the place and an acceptance. It’s possible for a women to participate—I have freedom to sing, read a poem, even to preach.” In the past she has been an Elder and part of the worship team, but at present is concentrating on her own music, writing and recording an album which will be released at a concert on 10 June in Framlingham (see below). She also teaches singing, both part-time at Thomas Mills High School and privately.