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Eglise Bethanie, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC

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In the summer of 1966, initial contact was made with a couple in Saint-Hyacinthe which resulted in their salvation. For a number of years after this, home meetings for Bible study were held in an apartment building purchased by commended worker [[Raymond Taylor]]. Following his graduation from [[Bethel Bible School]] in Sherbrooke, as part of the school’s very first graduating class, Raymond had already given a helping hand at Thetford Mines and then in Montréal where he was continuing to develop a new work in the east end of the city.
 With With the help early on of [[Marcel Laplante]] and [[Joseph Doucet]], both commended workers, Église Béthanie , initially known as Eglise Chrétienne Emanuel, officially began with twenty believers in August 1973. A year later, the group had mushroomed to eighty. Every believer in the assembly had been a former Roman Catholic with little or no previous knowledge of the Scriptures. At the outset, it was a purely French-Canadian work with no outside influence or help. The current building, former CKAC radio station, was purchased in 1980.
 By the late 70s, help was needed and had been called for. Commended workers [[Robert Thrall]] and wife Carolyn, though living at quite a distance from the assembly, were giving a helping hand. By 1990 they had moved to Saint-Hyacinthe and would continue there until their departure shortly after the turn of the century. Since then, the assembly has functioned without a resident worker. In 2019 it was reported that some forty believers were still meeting here regularly.