The late Derick Bingham was a renowned Bible teacher, pastor, broadcaster and writer from Northern Ireland who authored more than thirty titles during his lifetime, including biographies of C.S. Lewis and William Wilberforce.
For twenty years, his ‘Tuesday Night’ Bible Class at Belfast’s Crescent Church attracted up to to a thousand people from far and wide, not least students from the nearby Queen’s University. He was a speaker at Keswick Convention in England, conducted public Bible classes in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and travelled internationally teaching and preaching. He was also an Adjunct Professor of English Literature at the John Brown University and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts.
From 1998 until his passing in 2010, Derick was the teaching pastor with ChristChurch, Belfast. Derick didn’t just preach and write about encouragement, he practised it all the time in practical ways. Many people were influenced by his preaching and teaching over the years, but many were also touched by his gentle and practical encouragement by word and deed.
