INFORMATION
Robert Critchley is an associate minister of Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship where he continues to lead worship at conferences and renewal meetings. Rob and his wife Dawn were senior worship pastors on full-time staff in Toronto from 1996-2002.
He started creating music while playing in a bar band in 1980. Disillusioned by the club scene and on the advice of his brother Greg, Rob set his sights on developing his music skill and enrolled as a student at Mohawk College in 1982. It was there, befriended by a group of students who met for prayer and bible study that he made a decision to become a Christian. He notes:
Looking back I can see that I had been on a journey in search of love and approval, destiny, and peace of mind. I had sought fulfillment in these things through relationships, recreational drug use, and what I thought would bring me great happiness; being a successful musician. I met this group of Christians at college who were really passionate about their relationship with God. I was invited to attend one of their informal prayer meetings. Overwhelmed by my need of The Saviour whom they were worshipping, I asked my friends to help me find peace with God. They lead me through a simple prayer of repentance and commitment to Jesus Christ. I was encouraged to receive His free gift of forgiveness from all my sin (living selfishly apart from God) and the promise of eternal life and friendship with Him. I came to understand that God The Father loved me (indeed all mankind) so much that he gave His only Son Jesus to die upon a cross, paying in full the penalty for all of my Godless living. Through confessing my belief in Christ and deciding to follow Him, I experienced the weight of a guilty and defiled conscience lift from me. Flooded with the mercy and grace of God, I knew that I had been “born again”. I became deeply aware of God’s love for me and that He had given me a new beginning. I now had an inward assurance that He would lead me toward the destiny that He created me for, guided daily by The Holy Spirit”.
