Assemblée chrétienne de Stanstead, QC
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In about 1946, Mrs Altheas Young of Stanstead, just north of the Vermont border, was a patient of Arthur Hill. He gave her a Bible and invited her to a gospel meeting at Grace Chapel, Sherbrooke, QC. Soon, she and her husband were saved.
They commuted 35 miles each Sunday to Grace Chapel, Sherbrooke, QC. Arthur Hill suggested that they have Bible studies in their home, to be conducted by a number of young men, several from Emmaus Bible School. After two years, in 1948, a hall was rented in the town and an assembly formed – Stanstead Gospel Chapel, QC.
Those who initiated the assembly included Harry Pilkington, Lloyd Alan, Sydney Surlander, Roy Langley, Art Chamberlain, Mike Utz, Keith Orr, Joe Wooton, Ed Anderson, Jim Grady, Spencer Dibble, and Gordon Warnholtz. Doris Pitman and Ednas Climber conducted children’s meetings at that time.
In 1959, Miss Doreen Neil came from British Columbia to teach in Stanstead. She was instrumental in Lawrence Wallace’s decision to sell his business and come to work in the assembly full time. Believers from adjacent Rock Island and Beebe on the Vermont border, helped. Roy Buttery, while living in Waterloo, would go to Stanstead to give help when he could.
In 1960 the assembly had dwindled to a dozen, but subsequently grew to approximately 35 by 1962. They purchased a lot that year on which to build a basement, and later an above-ground auditorium. Mr. Lawrence Wallace conducted a home meeting at nearby Graniteville where each Friday evening 40 gathered to hear the Gospel, many of them teenagers. The work at Stanstead Gospel Chapel, QC carries on today, being blessed by the ministry of the Walter Scott family. The assembly is also known by its French names Assemblée chrétienne de Stanstead, QC and L’Assemblée de Stanstead, QC.
[edit] Also See
Huntingville Community Church, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Stanstead, QC
Cherry River Gospel Chapel, QC
[edit] Author
Dan H. Smith, Ed.D. President, Emmaus Bible College
[edit] Resources
Looking Backward, Pressing Forward: A Brief History of the Montreal Assemblies of Christians known as brethren, 1860s-1993 by George H. Dixon.
30th Anniversary of God's Faithfulness to Huntingville Community Church, 1955 _ 1985.
Sorel - Dedication of a New Chapel, 1996
Portfolio of Huntingville Community Church, undated
News of Quebec, vol. 41, #1, spring 1986; vol. 41, #2, summer 1986; vol. 41, #3, fall 1986; vol. 42, #1, spring 1987; vol. 42, #2, summer 1987; vol. 44, #2, summer 1989; vol. 44, #3, fall 1989.
Letters of Interest, June 1945, p. 13; September 1946, p. 33; June 1948, p. 19; May 1950, p. 17; October 1955, p. 14; November 1955, p. 7; January 1958, p. 3; June 1962, p. 21; July/August September 1963, p. 8; April 1971, p. 16; September 1973, p. 6; January 1985, p. 8.
[edit] Ending Note
There about two dozen additional present-day assemblies of French-speaking believers in Quebec for which the necessary historical information is lacking
