Life Lessons: From a one-bedroom flat in Hampstead to 40 years of marriage and ministry

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Born into a Windrush family in London, Louise Isaac grew up watching prayer reshape her home long before she understood faith for herself. But, over decades of marriage, ministry and change, she discovered her calling was never a title, but a way of being

I was born in London, England, in 1958, and brought up in Hampstead. I spent my early childhood there, and then my teenage years in Hendon. I’m part of the Windrush generation. My parents both came to England from St Kitts in their early 20s. They didn’t know each other back home; they met and married here. Like many who came during that time, they faced racism, prejudice and many challenges, and we as children were born into that context.

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