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Failing to be intimidated, Spreeman and Gratton were taken to St. Félicien where they took a hotel room for the night. The following day they were back in Girardville. However, at that point, they felt it might be best to leave the community for a time until the contempt and excitement quietened. Before long, however, they were back again to continue the work the Lord had led them to begin. The following summer, 1934, several were baptized and a small group of ten or twelve gathered to remember the Lord in the breaking of bread. The assembly had officially begun.
A school was added in 1937 for the education of the children of those who had left the Roman Catholic faith. This was continued until 1980. In 1943, a property was secured on land owned by local First Nations people for the burial of believers who could no longer be buried laid to rest in the consecrated grounds of the Catholic church. The present building, constructed in 1948 to house the Salle Évangélique (Gospel Hall), was enlarged by the addition of a basement in the 1980s.
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