Colin Tilsley

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Colin B C Tilsley, founder of Gospel Literature Outreach; born 23 January 1935 in Rajahmundry, India; died 23 March 1981.

Colin was the son of Crawford and Marjorie Tilsley, missionaries in the Godavari district of South India. Colin's father was a fourth generation of a family of missionaries in this area.

Colin was educated in England from 1947, at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, an evangelical Church of England boarding school. He did National Service in the British Army from 1954, and was married to Cynthia in 1957 in her native town of Launceston, Tasmania. They had four children.

They studied at Emmaus Bible School, Sydney, from 1960, and after graduating with them in 1961 Colin began work for them as Correspondence School Manager. He founded Gospel Literature Outreach in June 1965, and continued working for both organisations until prevented by increasing disability from Total Motor neurone disease.

[edit] References

Tilsley, Colin B C (1979). Through the Furnace. Sydney, Australia: Outreach Book Service. Autobiography, with special reference to Colin's Motor neurone disease

[edit] External links

• Gospel Literature Outreach. GLO Europe site (based in Motherwell, Scotland)
• GLO Ministries Australia. GLO Australia site
• Global Connections in Mission. Amalgamation (from 2001) of Missionary Services New Zealand and the New Zealand organisation of Gospel Literature Outreach