Faith Chapel Toronto Reaches Own Community LOI 1953-5

This article is from the May 1953 issue of Letters of Interest.

"A small assembly comprised of believers from the Central, Glebemount, Danforth and Greenwood assemblies in Toronto is the outgrowth of a work begun three years ago among the young in the Victoria Park district. Temporarily meeting in a rented lodge building, the assembly obtained its prospective building site as a direct answer to prayer and appropriately calls its meeting place Faith Chapel.

An 11 o'clock Family Bible Hour draws over 50 persons from the district and the afternoon Sunday School has an enrollment of 105 scholars. The intensive children's program includes a Monday night girls' hobby class and a Friday 'Happy Hour' for children. A Vacation Bible School is planned for the summer. Children from as far as two miles away are brought to the chapel by chartered bus.

A small magazine, Faith Chapel Messenger, is distributed to well over 1200 families in the immediate district, and an additional quantity is mailed out to interested persons.

The land on which the assembly proposes to build was originally owned by the municipality which refused to sell. Purchase of another site was blocked by objection of residents. After resorting to prayer the believers were led to approach the authorities again, who reversed their former decision and sold the lots for a trifling sum. They hope to begin construction this summer."

Source

• Letters of Interest: 1950's: 1953-5, p. 7