Thirty years ago, Jonathan Boast was living the rock’n’roll lifestyle working on tour with the Rolling Stones, but fast forward and he has accepted a call from God.<\/p>\n
After finishing his degree in the 1990s, Boast’s first job was a “lugger” setting up stages for the band during a tour of Germany.<\/p>\n
He later pursued his passion for art and photography as a career, but about 15 years ago he started to feel a call toward the church.<\/p>\n
As the feeling persisted, he followed it and, on Saturday, Boast, 52, was ordained as a deacon in Suffolk, which he described as a “blessing”.<\/p>\n
“I was living in Germany after my degree, exhibiting and had a studio,” Boast, who is from Bury St Edmunds, told BBC Radio Suffolk’s Sarah Lilley of his early 20s.<\/p>\n
“One of my friends said, ‘There’s some work helping out, carrying stuff, you’re quite big \u2014 you can carry stuff’,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I said ‘yes, of course that sounds like fun’, and you went around Germany as they were doing different gigs.<\/p>\n
“Then when they went into a different country you picked up another tour and did that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirty years ago, Jonathan Boast was living the rock’n’roll lifestyle working on tour with the Rolling Stones, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}