I heard this morning that John Stott died yesterday. A few minutes ago I found his memorial website which is a great source of information about John Stott’s life and details of upcoming memorial services.
John Stott’s successor as International Director of Langham Partnership International, Chris Wright, has written the following message on the website.
Message from Chris Wright
It will not be possible to write the history of the church in the 20th century without reference to John Stott. His remarkable ministry spanned the whole of the second half of the century and even in his eighties he was making an impact on the 21st.
His leadership of the evangelical movement, both in the Anglican Communion and in wider inter-denominational settings, was a major factor in moving it from rather narrow-minded fundamentalism after the Second World War, to the fastest growing part of world Christianity that it is today. The list of movements and institutions he founded, fostered and strengthened can be read in the biographical pages of this website. His books have challenged and nourished millions of Christians into a balanced and thinking biblical faith.His legacy through the global impact of the Langham Partnership International and the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity is incalculable.
For the vast majority of people whose lives he influenced profoundly, however, he was simply ‘Uncle John’ – a much loved friend, correspondent, and brother, to whose prayers we will never know how much we owe. Like Moses, he was one of the greatest leaders God has given to his people, and yet at the same time, one of the humblest men on the face of the earth. He was, for all of us who knew him, a walking embodiment of the simple beauty of Jesus, whom he loved above all else.
I remember being at a conference of UCCF Associates Ireland many years ago south of Dublin and during a break, chatting to John about birdwatching. Much more recently while a guest in Belfast of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, John was taken on a birdwatching trip by two friends of mine John Piper and David Clarke. David now owns an autographed copy of one of John Stott’s perhaps less known books Birds Our Teachers: Biblical Lessons for a LifeLong Bird-Watcher
John 20:21 
JOHN STOTT :
Dr Stott,(or simply John Stott), as we boys (and girls) at knew and called him was, through the 1960s during my secondary school education, a frequent visitor at King’s College,Budo.He was a contemporary of our Headmaster, Ian Robinson, at Cambridge and some other teachers.In the year of Uganda’s Independence,he visited the School and addressed the Pilgrims, a group of Balokole ( Evangelical Revivals ) pupils.He talked to us about our underlying political and emotional fears of what independent Uganda would be like : ” Was our Country to go the Ruanda-Burundi and Belgian Congo way after Independance or was it to flow a different political,social and economic path to avoid eminent post-Inpendance chaos ? ”
Afterwards,we, the pupils without prompting from our teachers, we adopted the ‘Taata’ (Father) John Stott’s message of mutual love and respect towards each other. For the weeks leading up to Easter 1962 and to the independance day in October 1962, we kept vigils of praying for each others spiritual growth in grace and love .
Pupils and Masters,including the Headmaster,School Chaplain and other form the School community came together as one in the name of our Lord and Saviour.We came together for Bible reading and prayers without compulsion or coersion between breakfast and School Morning Prayers and before School Lunch.Despite our tender age, at least for many of us, the John Stott expositions taught and led us on a journey of true Christian discipleship,as explained in the Acts of the Apostles.
For a long time,afterwards there was peace between the diverse community of pupils and teachers which had been hitherto fractous.This peace was never shattered until the mid-1960s, some time after the John Stott Pilgrim Group had left the School.The love from the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ ,which Taata John Stott talked to us about, has sustained many of us and other Ugandans of my generation through milliards of obstacles during our diaspora.
Knowing John Stott gave a new meaning to Christian Partnership.For many Ugandans of my age, visiting Langey Place,when in London,is like a pilgrimage to a Holy Place. May John Stott’s name live on: He has been a true disciple of the Gospel of Christian Love and Global Mutuality.The Christian Community has lost a great man.But thanks to our Lord ,Jesus Christ,our present loss is His permanent gain.We shall meet again. Adieu,Kwaheli and Welaba our Great Teacher/Musomesa/Mwalimu.
Kasozi.
Kasozi
Thank you for this personal memory of John Stott