Vera Parks Story

Vera recalls that when she first attended the Church only half a dozen people came but since then she has seen the attendance grow and on a few occasions extra chairs being placed in the aisle. Vera remembers a medium who did table lifting and they sat around the table with their fingers on the top and it started to lift in the air, she then said in her mind “go higher” and it did.

 

The original founder members Mr & Mrs Lane lived at 50 Grosvenor Road when she was a child and Vera recalls walking down past the house with her mother and remarked “why does Mrs Lane always have a red light in her window” her mother replied “she believes in ghosts!”. In fact it was a Healing light. Jean Woods was a medium and one of the early Presidents. On one occasion Vera was having a private reading with her and she clairvoyantly saw Mrs Lane standing by her. Vera later found out that the Lane family originally came from Windsor to Belvedere and they had rooms in the house she is still living in before moving to No. 50 Grosvenor Road, she senses that Mrs Lane looks at her Church through her eyes and feels very satisfied that with its progression since her passing.

 

Different Presidents have left their mark on the Church and she is happy to say all for the best. When Vera first attended the Church a Mr Welch was President and Florrie a lovely lady who came from Woolwich always stood at the Church door on a Sunday and greeted people and handed the hymn books out to them.

 

Bill was someone else I remember who used to buy spiritual books to read and then I would buy them off him to read myself.We had meetings on a Thursday afternoon in the old church hall (the original church being in the area which is now the foyer) and I used to scribble my messages down and also for my friends. I then found that I could not leave other people out, so I wrote their messages down and continued to do so until recently when my arthritic hands will no longer allow me to now. My fingers often itch to write when I hear mediums giving such good evidence.

 

Some names of mediums who I remember are:- Mrs Hodge, Mrs Fenwick, Mr & Mrs Maggs, Mrs Clark, Mrs Webb, Iris Ingafill, Pam Killick, Peter Bowley, Jack Warner, Olive Giles, Renee Orchard, Gladys Lee, Frank Dene, Barbara Barcock, Betty Bernard, Marjorie Carrolls.