Ivan Poulton worked full-time with the Initiatives of Change movement, previously known as Moral Re-Armament (MRA).
His parents had encountered MRA in the 1930s, and Ivan became interested in it while still at school. He served in the army between 1943 and 1946, after which he began working full-time with MRA. In 1984, Ivan wrote to colleagues in Belfast about an experience that radically altered his life and beliefs. Many years earlier, as transport manager, he had bumped a Northern Irish Protestant man off a busy flight without consulting him, and put someone he thought was more important on to the plane. Ivan had a profound experience of God showing him that he had been wrong and that he needed forgiveness. This prompted him to explore his nation’s character and its relationship with Ireland.
