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Major opposition was not long in coming. News media across North America, if not around the world, carried the report. An existing scrapbook of newspaper clippings and similar items gives proof to how widespread the coverage was. As would be said today, it went viral! This proved to be a turning point in the history of the work. Henceforth opposition and harassment were more subtle and significantly toned down.
In 1956, the ''Assemblée chrétienne de Shawinigan'' occupied its newly-constructed Gospel Hall with living quarters for the Darlings on the upper floor. These early pioneers returned to Michigan in 1987 and two years later were replaced by Jean Lépine and his wife Lillian Lépine who remained for eleven years. In 1999, the assembly acquired the Ecole Saint-Jude where it remains to the present time. '' ''
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