Originally there was one row of chairs around the lounge, then a second row, then through the connecting doors into the dining area, then several rows and eventually, joy of joys, some of us had to sit on the stairs!

Always implicit within the group was a conviction that God wanted us to build a church building as part of the process of establishing the work permanently in Eastern Oswestry, and we had many prayer meetings and 24-hour prayer clocks to discern and affirm God’s will for this to be done.  We even discussed whether to buy a pre-fab or a large caravan and put it somewhere.

Eventually we were put in touch with a Christian architect and a brick built church/community centre was planned and drawings were produced by July 1992.  However, the original site for the building would necessitate the construction of a very expensive road.  We ‘pondered this in our hearts’ and, as a result of prayer times, felt God wanted us to ‘concentrate on the living stones’ of the church at that time, although the time for constructing a building would come.

As we began to outgrow the home, the Meadows School was being constructed and we frequently prayed about whether this should be the next ‘home’ for the church, until we could construct our own building.  At one of our 24-hour prayer clock ‘feedback meetings’, a member of the congregation related how he had been walking near the construction site praying and had ‘heard’ voices singing hymns.  He became very excited when he realised the construction site was going to be the school!  

This encouraged John Field, the Carreg Llwyd elder designated to be leader of the fellowship, to approach the chairman of governors and the headmistress of the Meadows School.  This was a huge step to take as the amount of money we would have to pay out each month seemed enormous!  After negotiations our first service was held on Sunday 24th April 1994.  The group that had seemed so big in the house barely filled two rows in the school hall, but we felt excited that we had made the next key step in establishing the church.