Completing his apprenticeship, he moved to work in Swansea, and then in Cardiff, and then for Colmers of Bath.
While in Bath, where he attended Hay Hill Church, he decided to enter training for the ministry.
transferred him to 'Leopoldville' (now known as Kinshasa), a developing urban area, where concentrated on the new (Lingala speaking) arrivals of the Bangala tribe.
Returning to Wales in 1933 (on account of ill health) he continued to work, arranging summer schools.
He later was stationed at the Aberystwyth Theological College, and then in the Cilgwyn area, Newcastle Emlyn.