We have a building!!!!

Dear Oaks,

Well many of you will have heard of Easter Sunday’s announcement by now.

Oak Tree is the proud owner of their very own building. The contract on 216 Acton High Street has been both exchanged and completed!

Technically speaking the building belongs to the London Diocesan Fund on our behalf. But most importantly all of those years of praying and seeking God’s will have come to fruition.

Age Concern the present tenants will be in the building until 31 May when they are contracted to leave.

Neville Simpson the Project Manager appointed by the LDF is already working on the plans and it is hoped that the work will go out to tender in the near future. It is hoped that he will attend one of our May meetings to show us some drawings and discuss the plans.

As for now let us praise God for all His wonderful faithfulness. He is indeed very, very good.

Let us continue to pray that we will be a people who are full of God’s Spirit and that we, as well as 216, will be a building in which the Lord loves to dwell.

In His love,

Mark

I won’t be working until Saturday so there will not be a further email this week. But I will be back at my post on Saturday morning for Healing on the Streets (HOTS). Yesterday at HOTS was the busiest we have ever known it and hugely encouraging. The market stall and the children’s activities based around it meant the whole market area seemed to be humming with Christian witness in one way or another.

Today at our Easter Service I was so excited by the great sense of worship and gratitude expressed to God. Yes, for the provision of 216 but even more so because Christ is Risen and sin and death are defeated. The many cardboard testimonies were a great advert for the transforming power of the Living God. From the front I could see that God was deeply and powerfully moving in people’s hearts – it was a real joy!

Finally let me forewarn you that next Sunday we will continue to both celebrate the resurrection and the fact that at long last Oak Tree has a permanent home. And one right in the heart of Acton in a building once known for putting out fires but in future known for celebrating the one who is the All Consuming Fire.

Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed, Alleluia!