Comments on: On the shoulders of giants: A tribute to Noel Vose https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-the-shoulders-of-giants-a-tribute-to-noel-vose/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Mayne https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-the-shoulders-of-giants-a-tribute-to-noel-vose/#comment-4912 Sat, 13 Aug 2016 04:11:28 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1778#comment-4912 Moving to Perth last December to plant a campus ministry (Power to Change, formerly Campus Crusade for Christ Australia), I sought out and met with Noel in February, driving off to the remote Hills region for the first time. I’d procrastinated from my own studies on Stan Nickerson (QLD Baptist College Principal 1982-2000) by checking out some of Noel’s own biography, and he sounded so interesting.

Noel really did not have any clue who I was upon my visit, but he was STILL so warm and generous, despite his cancer, his fading memory (the not too infrequent repeating of a question he’d asked just earlier).

He opened the Bible with me to Mark 4, shared some keen and learned insights, made me a mean peanut butter sandwich, before refusing to let me leave without sneaking a $50 note into my hand for the purpose of blessing the ministry. It is cliched, but I will NEVER forget either the man or the gesture.

Only just heard that he had passed away. Not surprising, but still a shock of sadness nonetheless.

One of the all time greats.

When we rendezvous again Mr Vose, the peanut butter sandwich is on me!

]]> By: Nathan https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-the-shoulders-of-giants-a-tribute-to-noel-vose/#comment-4659 Fri, 06 May 2016 08:13:34 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1778#comment-4659 Thank you Brian – you’ve captured so much of Noel’s significance as a leader and as a person. It was precious to have Noel and Freda still coming in until relatively recently – it was a living link to the past.

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