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This being said, it was in 1946 that the Lord saved Wilda Lloyd through an English-language radio broadcast. Within three years her husband, Archie, followed. In those days there were no French-speaking evangelical services in Granby. Desiring to have such, Wilda contacted her brother-in-law, Jacques Smith, pastor of l’Église Saint-Luc in Montréal, who began holding services in the basement of Granby’s United Church. Ernest Anex, Baptist pastor in Roxton Pond, gave a helping hand. Though this did not carry on for long, it served as a forerunner of today’s assembly.
Given the fact that in those days no one would rent facilities to evangelicals, the assembly eventually purchased a piece of property from Archie Lloyd. The following spring construction work was begun and by mid-January 1954 the assembly had moved into its modest new quarters, seating about one-hundred persons. The building was financed in part by a loan from [[Stewards Foundation]] with official opening taking place on May 27 of that year. Speaker for the occasion was Gabriel Cotnoir, whose family had been introduced to the Gospel through a French-language radio programs hosted by [[Arnold Reynolds]], one of the first ever to be broadcast in Québec. Gabriel went on to become one of the leading pastors among the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptists.