Our Early History
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
Deuteronomy 32:7
Cedar Cottage Assembly Planted
The existing assembly on Seymour Street established a new Gospel Hall in the Cedar Cottage area with 26 in fellowship.
* A larger Hall was built nearby on Welwyn Street for the Cedar Cottage assembly.
* The Cedar Cottage assembly commended C. S. Summers to full-time service.
The first Thanksgiving Conference was held which continues to the present.
Bruce and Rhoda Cumming were co-commended to full-time service in Venezuela by the Cedar Cottage and Fairview assemblies.
John and Elizabeth Frith were commended to full-time service in Venezuela.
* The Cedar Cottage assembly had 175 members in fellowship.
* Thriving Sunday School work at the Nanaimo Road Gospel Hall, which is still located on Nanaimo and 1st Ave.
* Alice Broadhead (later Thomson) was co-commended by the Cedar Cottage, Arlington, and Westbank assemblies to full-time service in Venezuela.
The assembly moved into a new hall built at the present location which became known as the Victoria Drive Gospel Hall.
A number of members left to form a new assembly at the Carleton Gospel Hall at 45th and Tyne St where there had been a Sunday School outreach for many years.
Samuel and Elizabeth Simonyi-Gindele were co-commended to the work of the Lord in Zambia by the Victoria Drive and Fredericton, NB assemblies.
A broader history of assembly testimony in the city of Vancouver can be read here.
