Over the last few weeks several things have transpired relative to our property acquisition plan. First of all, in the 3-19-06 In the Know Update we asked you to be praying for a meeting that our leaders were having with the land developer. This particular meeting was very favorable for Westbrook. In fact, as was announced, the developer graciously reduced the price by an additional one hundred thousand dollars, bringing the current purchase price of the 14.3 acre parcel to 2.4 million dollars. While this seems to be a very high price, it is quite frankly very good in relationship to the price of land in our area. Please join us in praying for God’s blessing in regard to the finances needed to complete this transaction.

Following this meeting, our partners at the Church Development Fund (CDF) began writing up a purchase and sales agreement. This agreement is currently being amended by the developer’s attorneys to meet Illinois statutes. Once it has been returned, the Elders will then seek the Lord’s guidance for a final time in prayer, and if it is the Lord’s will the process will continue in the signing of the sales agreement. How exciting to know that as the Lord leads, Westbrook might be very close to completing this important component of our Phase III plan.

If you have any questions regarding this process please contact the leaders via email at Jen.Borland@westbrookchurch.org, or drop us a note at the Ministry Center. We want to give everyone in our church family an opportunity to share in this historic vision and life-changing plan for the ministry of Christ