INTRODUCTION
The 1980's correspond to my twenties. Quite a busy and varied decade for me ... at the start I still had two further years of being a student, by the middle I was married, and by the end I had just had my first child.
1. Hildenborough Hall
The happiest summer of my life was spent working on the domestic staff of Hildenborough Hall Christian Conference Centre in 1980, for £15 per week! It was a lovely place in a beautiful setting, but what made it so special was the team of (mainly young) people working there, who were (mostly) like a big happy family. On a Sunday afternoon, between shifts, most of us were able to gather for staff fellowship, and this is where I learnt this song....except I never did properly learn to sing it, as the person who taught us had some difficulty in holding a tune ... but his enthusiasm to share it was completely contagious! So this is what I think it should have been like (can't find it online, and I forgot one line)
2. UBM
That stands for United Beach Missions - at the end of my student years in the summer holiday I spent a couple of weeks volunteering on a Beach Team at Broadstairs. The ethos of UBM, which had its roots in the 'National Young Life Campaign', was a more conservative, almost old fashioned, evangelical group than those I had been associated with at the time (so I felt quite embarrassed by my rainbow themed Good News Bible that I was using at the time), and the songs we used at evening 'open Air' evangelistic meetings, were different to ones I knew from church etc. But they were tuneful, and had guitar accompaniment, and I liked them. My favourite was called 'I do not know the depth of Jesus' Love' to which I found some lyrics here but the words I recall are slightly different.
So here is my hybrid sound recording, using as a base a poor quality voice and guitar recording from the 1980's. overlaid with better quality voice from today ...so I'm singing along with a younger version of myself!
