‘If God wants us to have that building, he’ll have to provide the cash!’
That was the consensus reached at a church meeting in October 2016 of Crystal Peaks Church (CPC), a plant from Wycliffe Church in Sheffield, and so people went away to pray about it. A Primitive Methodist Church had come onto the open market. It was about half a mile away from the rented accommodation being used by the church, it had closed its doors in 2015 and now nursery proprietors and developers were sniffing around! CPC was coming up to four years of age and didn’t have two pennies to rub together – let alone £175,000.
Beighton village
But the church suddenly became aware that God had been slowly but surely leading them to Beighton village. CPC’s first convert lived 100 metres from the Methodist Church; they had already taken on an allotment in Beighton; had delivered postcards to around 3,000 Beighton homes during the summer; and were already talking to the Parish Church about using their premises on Sunday afternoons. So, although there had been no strategic plan in mind, God’s hand was clearly at work in Beighton. But there were simply not enough funds!
