The Living Truth Seventh day Adventist Company started life as the West London church plant.
\nThe London (South) church was overcrowded and there was talk of a church plant for a few
\nyears. By late 2013 leaders had to admit that attendance was stalling as the number of people
\nhad outgrown the facility, and the decision was made to experiment with two worship services
\nthrough January- April 2014. Yet, the lack of parking and one entrance\/exit parking lot only
\ncreated a bottleneck effect between services. While the attendance and giving increased it was
\nnot solving the challenge. On April 13, 2014 the Church board voted to return to a single
\nservice and to continue working on an alternative solution for increasing church membership
\nand attendance.
\nOn May 12, 2014 the London Church Board moved to action to develop a church plant in West
\nLondon by September 2014 with a recommendation to take a portion of members residing in
\nthe west part of London and prepare to offer worship services in a second location in West
\nLondon. A church \u201ctransplant\u201d was initiated. For the remaining of the year the plant was to
\nfunction as an extension of the mother church, a second campus of the sending church.
\nPastor Alex Golovenko searched available facilities and on July 14 2014 a report was brought to
\nthe Board about the availability of the Mt. Zion United church at a cost of $150 per Sabbath. A
\ngoal was set to start meeting in October, and to organize the core group in two months.
\nThe group was formed August 30, 2014 with about 35 people.
\nOn September 8, 2014 the London Church Board approved plans to start worship services and
\nsent off 4 out of 8 elders to organize the second campus.
\nFor our worship space we rented from a Sunday keeping church. Our first rental
\naccommodation was the Mt. Zion United Church and we started meeting for worship at 471
\nRidgewood Crescent. The first gathering took place on October 4, 2014 and the first sermon
\nwas preached by Elder Mike Keim. The very next Sabbath October 11 the Church Plant
\ncelebrated its first Communion with 32 participants.
\nOctober 25-November 1 the West Group conducted the first Evangelistic series with Pastor
\nJames Rooney \u201cHope for a Crazy World\u201d.
\nThe inaugural Sabbath was designated for January 2015 and on January 10 with Conference
\nDirector Eustace Williams 29 members signed the covenantal agreement as charter members.
\nElections were held and by February elders, deacons, and other departments were functional.
\nBy the spring of 2015 the West Group was recognized by the conference and new leaders
\nemerged. George Perez became the Group leader, Angelina Polihronova took responsibility as
\nAdministrative coordinator, sorting out schedules, correspondence, and organizing details of
\nweekly worship, and Maria Carcamo took care of finances, collection and remittance to the
\nLondon South Church treasury. Isabel Perez volunteered to produce weekly bulletins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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