History

In October 1993, at the invitation of the Bishop of Willesden, fifty members of St Barnabas Church, Kensington (a church initially started by Holy Trinity Brompton) began a new, experimental church in the Acton area…..and Oak Tree was born. Although fully part of the Church of England, Oak Tree is different from the traditional parish church. Having no set geographical boundaries, Oak Tree sees the whole of Acton, with its 85,000 residents, as its mission area. Before the church officially began, God directed its leaders to Isaiah 61:3, a passage in the Bible that is at the very heart of and foundational to Oaktree’s three-fold mission:

To be a church in Acton
To be a church serving the other churches in Acton
To be a church for the unchurched in Acton

The Isaiah passage not only gave us our vision but gave Oaktree its name, this along with the original meaning of “Acton” meaning “Oak Town”.

For two years Oak Tree’s home for its Sunday worship was a shared church building in North Acton. Our third anniversary heralded a relocation to Twyford High School. Then, in April 2000, Oak Tree was offered a home in South Acton at The Church of St Albans on South Parade.

In 2005, it was felt that the time had come to go back to meeting nearer the centre of Acton, so from January 2006, we began to meet back in Twyford High School.

The exciting cusp on which Oaktree now sits as we continue to meet in the cafe at Twyford school every Sunday at 4.30pm is the possibility of moving into a building right in the centre of Acton. A building of our own…

“….They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for display of His splendour…..”
Isaiah 61:1-6.