This last few weeks a lot has happened regarding our third planting of a prayer center here in Ealing West London.
Here is the update.
Fasten your seat belts!
I've now completed a 46 page document outlining the blueprint and business plan for planting the new center for prayer and mission in West London. The aim of this is to allow us to open some doors for further funding. and its looking good.
Last week I met with the architect who is working on the design of the prayer center and the plan is looking fab!
And!
At last!
Work has begun on the transformation of the tired old building in Leeland Road, Ealing, London.
And hopefully it will be completed in a few months time.
The prayer rhythm has been established and its such a blessing to have people popping in nearly every day now to pray at 10am each day. Sometimes its just Dawn and myself, but increasingly that is a rare thing!
Its so brilliant to see that very needy people are starting to be drawn on a daily basis to the building even though it is closed, asking for help and information. Fantastic new connections have been made over the last month, with the other churches in Ealing, with social agencies, with street workers, all of which want to work with us and us with them.
The Charity shop in Ealing has a new manager as Nicky Joyce has come to work full time as West London Project Hun Coordinator. Nicky is doing a fabulous job to revamp the approach of the charity shop and that should be opening soon complete with a prayer hatch of its own!
Hayes will receive a new leader into our team in July and is an important part of the West London project.
God is showing up in unexpected and astonishing ways.
We have decided with our DHQ to keep the word Sanctuary in our name as a project and so it will be simply known as Sanctuary West London.
Really exciting.
Last week Dawn and I visited the scene of our first plant, my home city, Liverpool where we visited Liverpool Valley Corps on official SA business and then in the evening were blessed to attend a Boiler Room reunion where we met with many people who we have had the pleasure of working with and ministering to. Then in the same week we had a visit from a group of young people with there leaders from the Sanctuary 21 project which Dawn and I planted and established over the last five years. it was great to be blessed in this way and to see many people who have been touched by God through our ministry progressing brilliantly in their faith.
And as we look back we see the amazing hand of God at work in knitting together new expressions of Salvation Army that have seen lives reached and touched, not to mention changed forever.
And we trust him for the future as we have to work hard to turn around a desperate situation for the Salvation Army along the Uxbridge Road corridor in West London.
But with God?
There is everything to play for!
Here is the update.
Fasten your seat belts!
I've now completed a 46 page document outlining the blueprint and business plan for planting the new center for prayer and mission in West London. The aim of this is to allow us to open some doors for further funding. and its looking good.
Last week I met with the architect who is working on the design of the prayer center and the plan is looking fab!
And!
At last!
Work has begun on the transformation of the tired old building in Leeland Road, Ealing, London.
And hopefully it will be completed in a few months time.
The prayer rhythm has been established and its such a blessing to have people popping in nearly every day now to pray at 10am each day. Sometimes its just Dawn and myself, but increasingly that is a rare thing!
Its so brilliant to see that very needy people are starting to be drawn on a daily basis to the building even though it is closed, asking for help and information. Fantastic new connections have been made over the last month, with the other churches in Ealing, with social agencies, with street workers, all of which want to work with us and us with them.
The Charity shop in Ealing has a new manager as Nicky Joyce has come to work full time as West London Project Hun Coordinator. Nicky is doing a fabulous job to revamp the approach of the charity shop and that should be opening soon complete with a prayer hatch of its own!
Hayes will receive a new leader into our team in July and is an important part of the West London project.
God is showing up in unexpected and astonishing ways.
We have decided with our DHQ to keep the word Sanctuary in our name as a project and so it will be simply known as Sanctuary West London.
Really exciting.
Last week Dawn and I visited the scene of our first plant, my home city, Liverpool where we visited Liverpool Valley Corps on official SA business and then in the evening were blessed to attend a Boiler Room reunion where we met with many people who we have had the pleasure of working with and ministering to. Then in the same week we had a visit from a group of young people with there leaders from the Sanctuary 21 project which Dawn and I planted and established over the last five years. it was great to be blessed in this way and to see many people who have been touched by God through our ministry progressing brilliantly in their faith.
And as we look back we see the amazing hand of God at work in knitting together new expressions of Salvation Army that have seen lives reached and touched, not to mention changed forever.
And we trust him for the future as we have to work hard to turn around a desperate situation for the Salvation Army along the Uxbridge Road corridor in West London.
But with God?
There is everything to play for!
