Cherry River Gospel Chapel, Magog, QC
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History
Cherry River Gospel Chapel, Magog, Memphrémagog, Estrie, Southeast Québec, Canada is an open brethren assembly founded in 1949.
The assembly at Cherry River (near Magog) began in 1949, being an outgrowth of work among children and youth of the area. Edna Clymer, working with the Canadian Sunday School Mission, had invited Margaret Petrie, later to become a missionary in Africa, to conduct a series of meetings here. These were so successful that the dance hall soon closed down. Paul Hunt, who had been coming down from Toronto to give a helping hand for several summers, looked after the assembly during the first year of its existence. He was soon followed by David and Harriet Wilson who remained for four or five years. Meetings were first held in a schoolhouse before the current chapel was built. A musical group of young men, “The Marksmen", some coming from this assembly, were much used of the Lord for a number of years in and around the area.
In 1954, following their graduation from Emmaus in Toronto, Fred and Jean Warnholtz arrived and laboured here for many years during which time they launched and developed the work at nearby Parkside Ranch. It was the annual retreats at this assembly which gave birth to the idea of such a youth ministry. As year after year large groups would come from around the province for a weekend retreat, some began to wonder why this couldn't be carried on more frequently. Eventually the annual conference was changed to youth retreat week-ends and the rest is history. At the turn of the century, all commended workers at Parkside attended this assembly.
AKA
Locations
- home and schoolhouse meetings 1949-1954
- Courtemanche Rd. 1955-2021+
Correspondent
- David Ross Wilson (1896-2008) 1950-1954
- b. 1896 Montreal, QC, m. Harriet Carleton, Ottawa, Ontario, d. 1984)
- George Brier (b. 1930 Matane, QC - d. 2008 Magog, QC)
Alumni
Sources
- Walterick Publishers Assembly Address Books: 1950, 1954-1956, 1958-1980, 1982-1983, 1985-1987, 1989-2000, 2003
- News of Quebec
- Ancestry.com