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In 1845, hymnwriter of ''What A Friend We Have In Jesus'', [[Joseph Medlicott Scriven]] emigrated to Woodstock, Oxford, [[Ontario]], Canada where he broke bread with friends, this meeting eventually split with other exclusives to become a Raven-Taylor (now PBCC exclusive) meeting which met from +1954-2015+ on Mill Street in Woodstock, and another at City Hall, neither of which are presently open to the general public.
In 1883, the open brethren publication ''Barley Cake'' reported: "Brother Muir is in Bay City. He is preparing for the tent season, and is longing for a fellow laborer. Brother Goodfellow, who has been laboring with James Reid in Woodstock may join him."
Prior to 1927, there was an open brethren meeting known as Woodstock Gospel Hall that met first at 704 Dundas St., then in the home of Ralph E. Tree by 1947then folded. This assembly may have folded at that pointAfterwards, or it may have transferred to there were a few families meeting in the home of John Josiek, where it was rebranded in 1966 as (presumably) a looser OB assembly, [[Park Row Community Chapel, ON]], which folded in 1976. Still existent Gospel Halls in Oxford county are located in West Zorra (Embro) & Burgessville. There are also Bible Chapels in Tavistock & Tillsonburg.
=Later Woodstock ministry=