Tenth Avenue Bible Chapel, Burnaby, BC

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A testimony started in Burnaby, in the southeast section of the Vancouver metropolitan area, in August 1928. The nucleus of the assembly came from Seymour Street Gospel Hall and Mount Pleasant Gospel Hall, both in Vancouver. The principals involved in the start-up were James Cochrane, William McGowan, Duncan Pollock, Edward Hogg, Andrew Hogg, Daniel McLellan, William Murdoch, Archie Robertson, and Thomas Robertson.

The Christians met in an upper hall on Kingsway and called it Park Hall Gospel Hall. They remained there until they built a new hall in 1935 on Barker Avenue, about three blocks away, and renamed the testimony Central Park Gospel Hall. The Christians continued there until March 1989 when they sold the building and began construction of a new chapel at 7103 Tenth Avenue in Burnaby. They moved into the Tenth Avenue Bible Chapel in March 1991.

The assembly has scores of leaders in its long history, among whom we may mention Gilbert Murdoch, who has been in the assembly since 1935 and is still active. Workers have been commended to the Dominican Republic, Peru, Zambia, and to work in Canada. The assembly has spun off two others (see below), and today has about 45 adults and children attending.

In 1955, a group of the younger generation at Central Park Gospel Hall commenced a testimony in an area about four miles away in the Cascade-Renfrew area of Vancouver. A bus had been hired to bring children to the Central Park Sunday School from that area.