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Nicky Gumbel was born on 28 April 1955 in London, England. He is the son of Walter Gumbel, a German secular Jew [3] from Stuttgart whose licence to practise law in that city was withdrawn in one of the early Nazi purges. Walter Gumbel emigrated to Britain and became a successful barrister. [4] Gumbel's mother, Muriel, was a barrister and ...
Nicky Gumbel: Gumbel was the curate of Holy Trinity Brompton at the time of the Toronto Blessing and was later the vicar of the church, the biggest Anglican church in the United Kingdom. He has been quoted as saying that the Toronto Blessing was "the kick start that the Alpha course needed".
Nicky Gumbel, priest, developer of Alpha course [5] Geri Halliwell, Ginger Spice, singer, songwriter, and actress [6] Peter Hitchens, columnist, commentator, and journalist; brother of the anti-theist writer Christopher Hitchens [7] C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher [8] Alister McGrath, biochemist, historian, scientist, Christian apologist [9]
In 1985 Nicky Lee took on the course, and in 1990 Nicky Gumbel, then also curate at Holy Trinity, took over the running of the course [5] at the invitation of Sandy Millar (vicar at that time) and oversaw its revision and expansion. Alpha grew rapidly in Britain in the 1990s, from just four courses in 1991 to 2,500 in 1995.
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The Alpha course founder Nicky Gumbel participated in the camps under David Fletcher's leadership. [ 24 ] [ 47 ] Fletcher described Alpha as: "basically the Iwerne camp talk scheme with charismatic stuff added on."
Among the milestones of Gumbel's career is being the first Black person to call play-by-play in a major American sports championship, having taken the microphone for Super Bowl XXXV in 2001.