Pentecostal Mission, Leytonstone

The Pentecostal City Mission Church in Leytonstone, London, was purchased by that group in the 1970s. I cannot discover the denomination that built it, though it looks like a late nineteenth-century Wesleyan. The building is rather handsome, tall and slim, as though keen to keep its head tall and its shoulders straight. Although it occupies a site on a quiet sideroad, it retains a certain dignity.

I might not agree with everything that the current occupants stand for, such as leadership requirements, but a phrase on their website made me smile:

“The challenges facing the Church in this time are immense, but are not more than our God’s power to overcome.”

Indeed. God's power, love, wisdom (and all the rest) are always greater than whatever our need of them. 

Thine, O Lord is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. 1 Chronicles 29:11

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