Church Services
One vital ingredient in student training was felt to be regular participation in church life, a feature unavailable in more established Bible School training. Thus, Sunday worship and other ’church activities’ were maintained at the Centre, as a spiritual backing in prayer and testimony for the Centre’s larger work, and as a provision for more than locally-resident worshippers.
Because the Trust’s interests majored in this way on wider parties and movements, the ’local’ church remained ill-defined. As a matter of agreed principle it had no formal membership and no written constitution. For the next 30 years its ’members’ were content, by prayer, giving and hospitality, to serve the Centre’s overriding world vision and ministry.
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