Honor Oak Christian Fellowship Centre
The Honor Oak Christian Fellowship & Conference Centre, generally known as the Christian Fellowship Centre or Honor Oak, was a Christian conference and training facility located on Honor Oak Road in south-east London. The centre was the ministry base for its founder, the British evangelist and writer, T. Austin-Sparks, who had previously been the minister of the Honor Oak Baptist Church from 1921 to 1926.
Austin-Sparks was sought as a conference speaker in England and the United States because of his involvement with the Overcomer Testimony of Jessie Penn-Lewis. This, coupled with the fact that the Baptist Union frowned on his "interdenominational" efforts, created the need for a large enough facility to accommodate Christian gatherings, as well as the future publication work of The Witness and Testimony Literature Trust, Austin-Sparks' publishing operation.
In 1926, Austin-Sparks and part of the congregation of the Honor Oak Baptist Church moved to Forest Hill House on Honor Oak Road, which had previously been a boys' boarding school. The new facility was called The Honor Oak Christian Fellowship and Conference Centre. The purpose of the facility was as a “Bible Training Hostel and Conference Centre.”
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