My name is John Winter, I was born in Esquel, Argentina, but spent most of my childhood and teenage years in Bangor, North Wales. Over the last 15 years, I have moved back and forth a few times between the UK and Argentina, but am now living and working in Oxford, UK.
Though I feel passionately about many things, my biggest yearning and prayer is to live a life pleasing to God and be found faithful with what I’ve been given. That is why I am keen on writing about important issues surrounding my faith; important because they really matter when it comes to living our lives and discipling others, whether with words or with example.
I first came up with the name Paul’s Apprentice as my focus was writing about the Craft of hand-tool woodworking, which I had the great privilege of learning from the hands of Paul Sellers, a world-renown furniture maker and designer (and author and educator, also a fellow brother in Christ). But I especially liked the concept of Paul’s apprentice because of its additional reference to Paul -formerly Saul- of Tarsus, the ‘untimely apostle’ (and another craftsman, funnily enough). Paul authored most of the letters in the New Testament, and through these, he has inspired hundreds of millions of individuals over the centuries to be followers of Christ, and that’s what I want to be, first and foremost.
Paul's Apprentice 