The Testimony of Nevil Williams

Nevil was born in 1957 to Bill and May Williams who lived on Machynys Fawr Farm*. The farmhouse was in South Llanelli**, facing the Gower Peninsular in South West Wales. His father died in 1964 and his mother and he remained in the farmhouse for about two years. Here, he gives his testimony.

My mother married Eddie John in June, 1966, after his first wife Annie had passed away in 1962. I moved to live in his house in the next village called Bwlch-y-gwynt***, Eddie was a tinplate worker and an evangelist. He established the Burry Gospel Hall in 1931 and the Morfa Gospel Hall in 1955.

It was after hearing a sermon one Sunday evening that I knelt at my bedside and confessed a was sinner who needed to be saved. I was about ten at the time and was still living in Bwlch-y-Gwynt. In the late 1960s and early 1970s the village was demolished by the former Borough Council because of the obsolete steel and tinplated industry in the area. They wanted to make it attractive to visitors so it has been replaced by the housing estate called Pentre Nicklaus and a golf course.

I moved to Trinity Road in 1969. I was baptised around 1972 and came into fellowship at the Morfa Gospel Hall. It March 1991 because of the Council’s land regeneration scheme. I since then I have been in the Evangelistic Hall, Arthur Street, Llanelli.

Footnotes
* Machynys is pronounced Machunis. The ch sounds the same as the Scottish loch. A single f in Welsh is pronounced as a v).
** In Welsh a double ll is one letter. You must put your tongue on your pallet to pronounce it properly).
*** Bwlch-y-Gwynt is pronounced as Bullch-u-gwint, which means “Windy Gap” because of the strong south westerly winds that blew into the village from the Burry Estuary.