From Alberta Canada-The congregation of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church may have lost their home, but they haven’t lost each other.
A fire that ripped through the 26-year-old building early Sunday morning has displaced Anglican churchgoers and hundreds of other who attend ministry programs through The Father’s House, formerly the Morinville Christian Fellowship Church.
“This has been a sad thing,” said Dora Legge, a parishioner of St. Andrew’s since 2002 when she moved to Morinville from Newfoundland. “But no one was injured, no one was killed and we are still a church family.”
Standing amid the scorched rubble of a building where baptisms and weddings were once celebrated, parishioners gathered at the site of St. Andrew’s on Sunday to pray.
Ron Horst, Rector of St. Andrew’s, said that despite the material loss of worship books, vestments and office equipment, his faith has not been tested.
“We lost pretty much everything,” he admitted, “But I’m very proud of the people in the church because we understand that our church life is the people together and the Lord’s presence among us.”
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http://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/20130618/SAG0801/306189965/congregation-loses-a-home-but-not-each-other
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