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In
some ways, our movement from the States to Canada has paralleled our
congregation's movement from this historic building to a new
location. It's loomed ahead of us for many years — overlapping
years — the very first time we attended this congregation a little
over four years ago, there happened to be a meeting after the worship
service about whether or not the building should be sold to a
developer. Feelings at that meeting were running deep and strong.
In part, these were connected to memory and past disagreement over
previous congregational amalgamation in the GTA — something that,
at the time, I had no awareness of and even now only share
second-hand. But my ignorance of the specifics met my passion head
on — and passion won out. I'd really enjoyed my first service
here, encountering all of you, and I was worried it would be lost
before I could become a part of it. I remember — that first
meeting — speaking up and saying that, as a denomination, Community
of Christ can't be continually closing churches; rather, we need to
be continually refilling empty pews.