In 2023, we found ourselves having to temporarily leave our home in Wildwood and we ended up meeting in Beaconside.

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With much prayer, we feel God spoke to us at this time about the next season for Wildwood Church.

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We received a prophetic word from a good friend of the church, Eric, who said ‘this is a planting of the Lord’ and ‘God is bringing the nations to you’. At the same time, we received another prophetic word from another friend of ours, Sarah, who said this:

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I had the picture of a river flowing in Wildwood and Stafford.

I felt that the river had flowed in the same way for a while, taking the same route through the town but I saw the river now taking different courses and life starting to flow outside of the channels that had always been used. The encouragement here was to look for new ways of expressing the life of God, not expecting Him to work in the same ways and through the same connections.

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There was also a sense that God would not be contained by structures and previously hewn conduits, but could break out of those to make new canals and spaces for the water, seeking out new places to irrigate and touch.

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Finally, we received another prophetic word from our friend, Josh, saying that Wildwood church is to be like the tree of life described in Revelation 22:2 .

The tree of life was on each side of the river, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree are for healing the nations...

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This section of scripture was not written about us, but it provided a picture through which God could communicate prophetically to us about what He has planned for us: a stretching of our area of influence and a particular call to reach the nations (more below).

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We weighed up these words, along with many other encouragements from within the church, and, as a result, we committed to meeting at Beaconside for the foreseeable, looking forward to the new thing that God is doing with us.

 

Our logo is a reminder of these words we received: