In due time, after moving from the East End of London to Kent, George North became a ‘family man’, a conscientious objector during the war and a Baptist Pastor.

Following his move to Bradford in 1952, Mr North began to teach and preach about his recent experience of the fullness of the Spirit. The prayer and longing of the congregation resulted in what many considered to be a ‘revival’ in the local church and which, in due season flowed out to others. The testimony of people in the congregation, as well as Mr North himself, was that ‘God came’. The truths of the New Covenant, New Birth and One Baptism were experienced and preached. It was in Bradford at the New Covenant Fellowship that he became particularly known as Pastor North.

The move from Bradford in 1965 to the Wirral and the Liverpool area was the beginning of a wider ministry that many testify became foundational in the ‘House Church Movement’.

Regular visits to groups around London gave rise to what became known as ‘The London Meetings’ or even as ‘The North Circular’. Referring to these meetings, it has been said that ‘his experience and knowledge of God, together with his discernment was extraordinary. Many of the meetings we had were charged with power’.

The first overseas trip came in 1974 when a visit was made to Cyprus. During this period, it was noted that the sense of the presence of God in the meetings was outstanding. A fellow minister assumed that without Mr North, this would continue but later he noted that ‘the presence of the Lord went with him’; a reminder of how much the Lord was using him at that time.

With the number of groups growing and the size of gatherings increasing, in the late 1970’s, the ministry expanded to include ‘Summer Conference’. The first of these gatherings was at Swanwick and then for a number of years they were held at Cliff College in Derbyshire before moving to Rora House in Devon. In due course, the larger conference style of gathering became a feature of Mr North’s ministry that extended to many countries.

It has been said that Mr North, at one time or another, exercised each of the Gifts of the Spirit. As the circle of his ministry widened, the abilities for preaching and moving in these gifts also grew. To some no doubt, Mr North would have been recognised as exercising an apostolic ministry, but the title was one that he personally shunned.

Throughout his life, his ministry and the strong spiritual leadership exercised in meetings, pointed all men to Christ, to find ‘Newness of Life’.