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<\/a>Redfern, who started working for GCAS as an Associate Auditor in 1990, can still be seen mounting the stairs every morning, and is often found at the piano, leading morning worship. A man who very much lives his faith, he is also first-elder of the St Albans Seventh-day Adventist church.<\/p>\nBorn in Manchester, England on 7 February 1937, Redfern became a Chartered Accountant in 1960 and even before taking up church employment, willingly gave of his time to support its mission. By 2002 he rose to the position of Assistant Director and by 2011 became Senior Regional Manager.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith that promise,\u201d he said, \u201cI am now ready to face the next 20 years.\u201d [ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/p>\n A larger selection of photos is available on the TED Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a>Married to Joyce Redfern, his wife of 52 years, he rejoices in two children, Ian and Kristina, along with six grandsons. With all that he still finds time to learn new languages, read, play the piano, and increase what his son Ian calls, \u201chis truly encyclopaedic knowledge of a remarkable number of subjects.\u201d His is the first name on the team sheet for any quiz or game of trivial pursuit!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>Vera Gietzmann is a PA in GCAS. She stated that \u201che is the most amazing colleague I\u2019ve ever worked with.\u201d She noted his patience and calmness, \u201ceven when he may need to explain something for the 1,000th time!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>While Redfern is old enough to remember developing his own accounting programme in DOS on 10\u201d floppy disks in the 1970\u2019s, he is still young enough to joke about his future. During the party, surrounded by the staff he regards as friends, he quoted his favourite Bible passage, \u201cEye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.\u201d [1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV]<\/p>\n
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