CALL TO PRAYER FOR BRISTLE HILL

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BREAKING NEWS! Four buildings on Bristle Hill have come on the market. Yesterday I had a look round (with Paul Burgess) and have to confess that I am very excited about the potential these buildings in terms of taking us to a whole new level of ministry in Buckingham.

The aim of this email (and video) is NOT to try and persuade you all of why this is such a great opportunity but simply to galvanise some prayer over this possibility. I would love it if we could as a church commit this to prayer and that you could let me know if you sense the Lord speaking to you. If this is not of the Lord we must lay it down. The potentially tight timeframe has meant that I have not had the opportunity to discuss this with your PCC.

I haven’t had time to write a coherent ‘why might this be a God-given opportunity?’ but here are some initial thoughts:

Despite BPC quadrupling in size, we still have the same available space as we did when I arrived!
There is no room for the Children’s Ministry to grow and The Centre is too far away to use on a Sunday,
Our tiny office is rammed full of people,
None of the ministry staff has a desk or working space,
Our upstairs rooms are heavily used and the youth work is overflowing.
We’ve been praying about creating a school – could this be a venue (starting small)?
Relieving pressure on bookings in the church,
Creating space to rent out,
Enabling further family ministry,
Enabling further growth
Potentially renting out part of it to cover mortgage costs.

Please click here to see some photos and videos that I took on the visit.

The Centre is already fully booked and potentially on a long lease so this project would not in any way detract from its mission.

There would be a huge amount of work necessary to transform the site.

We believe about £750k would buy the site and works could then be carried out incrementally. We currently have no funds to allocate!

Please pray about this and pray for the PCC.

Let me know what you sense the Lord saying. Should we, shouldn’t we?

With every blessing,

Will

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Will Pearson-Gee		Jo Wigley
Rector		Associate Minister for Pastoral Care

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