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It is with deep sadness that we share the news of Neale Lawrence's unexpected passing. As we grapple with this profound loss, we must keep his wife and 11-year-old son in our thoughts and prayers, as they navigate this challenging new reality without him.
In response to this heartbreaking situation, I want to encourage everyone to offer their heartfelt support through prayers. Moreover, a GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help with funeral expenses and to provide much-needed financial relief during this difficult transition. All of the money received will go directly to Neale's wife.
https://gofund.me/2a8b0337
Please consider contributing to this fund to express your solidarity with Neale's family during this trying time. Your support can make a real difference.
Thank you for your kindness,
Arlene Wells (Family Friend)
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FUNERAL SERVICE
Tuesday 18th February 2025 - See the Service section for further details
In lieu of flowers, donations may be directed to the SDA Home Education Association, a cause that was very important to Neale.
https://www.sdahomeeducation.org/
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Our journey continued over two decades with him, Sis Kizu, and later little Seth. We joined them with our ministry _True Education Ministries_ in AYS Program's, workshops, seminars, education days, and retreats across the UK.
Bro Neal a was very insightful, thoughtful, and patient man. He was innovative with ideas for Adventist Education and homeschooling families. He appreciated others' views and opinions on his research and ideas, especially his Handbook on Homeschooling. Many times, myself or Arleen would want to share it, but he wanted to improve or update it.
He started the SDA Home Education Association. Many of us, including my family (Woodburn's), the Blackburns, and many others, joined him on this journey of Adventist Education in those early years.
Many as parents and educators have benefitted from his Adventist Teacher Training programme, which he started when a young person suggested that an Adventist Teacher program was needed.
Our brother has left a legacy and started an Association that still continues, also a movement with Adventist Education where there are now hundreds of families and individuals who are inspired to go forward and encourage others.
Our prayers are with his dear wife Kizwanda and their son Seth. Praying Seth will realise what a great impact his father made to many lives and that we too look forward to the ressurection morning when we will all meet again 🙏🏾🌹🙏🏾
I believe Brother Neal was sent by God to help me at what was a sad and scary time for me because some family members and church family members were very derogatory and angry towards me because I was thinking about Home Education, but after speaking with Brother Neal I felt more confident to trust in God knowing it was the right thing to do. I was shocked to find out that he was the only contact for SDA Home Educating families in the UK, and he had this role while working full time and having a young family.
He helped me not only spiritually and emotionally but also in a very practical way, by sending me a PDF he had produced himself on what SDA resources were available and giving me Angela Woodburn’s number so I could learn about SonLight Ministry which provided guidance on how to teach my children using the Bible as the main text book. When I finally met Brother Neal and Sister Kizuwanda in person I was amazed by their kindness and the time they took to speak with me and encourage us on our Home Education journey.
He started my family and me down a road to True Education, and for this I will always be truly grateful. For this reason, I am now part of the HEA, and I want to help other families just the way God used Neal to help our family.
I want to stay faithful, by God’s grace to meet Neal again when there will be no time limit to learn about God and His amazing Love for us all.
Heartfelt condolences to the Lawrence family. May the LORD comfort and take care of you as Neal rests in Christ until the resurrection.
Pray the Lord will strengthen and guide you all through this time. Lots of love
I was privileged to know of Brother Neal as not only a true education speaker but also a leader in the SEA Home Education Association which he led for a time. Then God gifted me the chance to do some advising work as an SDA youth for him and help him update his website in these last few years. I regret not asking how his latest projects were going before it was too late, but I was certainly glad to have know him personally. God will preserve every tangible and intangible thing that he has set up.
I pray for your health and comfort in this time of grief. Hold on to the best memories. Remember what he would have loved for you to continue doing. Brother Neil's chapter has ended, but I can't wait to see what God will make of you, his family, and his legacy until, by God's grace, he rises on resurrection morning.
With my condolences, love, and prayers,
Abi xx
Neal took on a lot by himself - creating and delivering a course of the highest educational standard, finding time to nurture, pray with and support his students. He wanted to start a school and help others to start their own schools. He developed a wonderful curriculum resource which he asked me to trial for him. A few weeks before he passed he let me know he was still working on making it available and asked me to pray that God would help him. He was doing many things to push the work forward, right up until his physical demise.
Neal was deeply committed to the Lord and a very sincere man with a gentle spirit. He will be called a repairer of the breach, a restorer of old paths to dwell in, he has raised the foundation of many generations (families). A true giant of faith. My thoughts and prayers are with you Kizu and Seth.

I was so shocked on receiving the news of Neal's passing! I wasn't even aware that he was so unwell.
At times like these, it is difficult to find words that express the depth of loss, but praise be to our Heavenly Father for the hope that He has given in His word to encourage and support His people through these times. My thoughts and prayers are with you and Seth. It seems like such a short time ago we were talking about keeping in touch when you were moving to the country.
May God grant you peace of mind and comfort such as you both will need in the days ahead. God bless you both.x
Neal was consistent in his walk with the Lord and lived up to every bit of light that the Spirit revealed to him. He was a spiritual mentor to his peers and was a coach to teachers, long before he started his True Education teacher training programme.
I remember back in 1996, he came to my class at Little Eden and took a lesson with the children that illustrated why the theory of evolution was not a fitting explanation for how our planet came into being. The lesson was practical, engaging; it involved art as well as discussion and the children loved it.
While he was explaining to the children what they would be doing that afternoon, one of the boys started talking to another boy. Neal immediately stopped and said "I'll wait until you've finished...I don't want to interrupt your conversation." He was being sincere; there wasn't an iota of sarcasm in his tone. Needless to say, that was the last interruption for the lesson. I have used that 'line' a few times myself since then.
Neal's passing is a serious loss to the work of True Education. I am baffled by his passing and I wonder 'who will continue the brilliant work that he had started?' But the Lord does all things well; there is a purpose behind every event that He allows.
My sincere condolences to his family; especially his wife and son. None of this makes sense right now, but we'll understand it better by and by! You are in my prayers, meanwhile, mingled with the hundreds of prayers raised on your behalf at this trying time.
Be hopeful, be faithful and God bless you...
I met brother Neal only a few times when I visited Wales. The first time I met his whole family was one Sabbath afternoon when they came to visit my sister and her family, but I had seen him before. My sister and her family spoke of him, and his family often as he used to support and assist their son, my nephew, in various ways. He was very kind to my nephew.
The last two times I saw him was when he visited my mum’s home, after my sister and brother-in-law emigrated. He came to spend time with my nephew. I found him to be very kind and caring.
May he rest in God’s peace until resurrection morning.
We extend our condolences to the whole family at this time.
May grant you all peace, comfort and love at this time.
Everytime I went into a zoom meeting with my gentle teacher, he always asked how I was how things were getting on and never closed our meetings without a specialised prayer on my behalf after giving me words of wisdom and much much encouragement.
I will miss Bro Neal. No one can ever step and walk in his shoes. He was one of a kind.
I look forward to seeing him in heaven..we will sit down and speak of the ways God had led me after we spoke and after he left. Much too soon. I pray it will not be forever. He was happy to speak about setting up the school he dreamt about and I so wanted to be a part of it. I did not get
the opportunity to share the outcomes of our prayers with him before he left us. By God's grace we will meet again in the kingdom.
I pray that God will comfort the family as they look forward to seeing Neal in the kingdom.
I pray the Lord will comfort the lives of all those whose Neale's has touched - especially his family.
Please know that in his time of pain, God is holding you in his arms; never forget that he is crying with you. My family and I will be praying for you and I hope that you hold on to the promise that you will see your beloved one again in Heaven.
'The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.'
Numbers 6:24-26
Your sister in christ,
Makena.M
I (Svetlana) personally came into a greater contact with brother Neal as I enrolled in his True Education Teacher Training programme in autumn 2021. As we spend the entire year seeing each other in Zoom lectures I came to love and appreciate him as a great spiritual instructor and a diligent student of the Bible and the Spirit of Prophesy, who is not satisfied with the surface knowledge, but would dig and delve deeper and yet deeper into the treasure mine of God's Word to bring forth the precious nuggets of the living truth. His zeal towards true education, wide professional knowledge and experience that he shared, and the love of the Word have truly inspired me to have a closer walk with Jesus. Brother Neal Lawrence was instrumental in my personal True Education journey and he is going to be truly missed by many. My family and I believe his blessed legacy will remain until the soon coming of our Lord.
As Paul expresses, “For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand” (2 Timothy 4:6), I resonate with the weight of this statement in light of my sorrow.
To Kizuwanda and Seth, I extend my heartfelt condolences and hope that you may experience the “peace that surpasses all understanding,” finding strength and comfort in the treasured memories you hold.
In these challenging moments, may you draw upon the unwavering support that comes from our faith in Jesus Christ, who serves as our steadfast anchor.
As Paul concludes, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7).
Let us remember Neal and find solace in the promise that he will rise first on Jesus’ return.
With deepest sympathy,
He will be missed. Praying for his family. In the Sweet by and by
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