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Article: Presbyterians help Pinawa Christian Fellowship celebrate 40 years: a multi-denominational congregation sees diversity in simplicity.(Canadian news)
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- Presbyterian Record
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- February 1, 2004
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When a group of ex-Westerners working at Atomic Energy of Canada's labs in Chalk River, Ont., in 1963 were offered a chance to return home, they "jumped at the opportunity." So recalls Dr. Jock Guthrie, a Presbyterian elder and one of those Westerners. They happily accepted transfers to the new Whiteshell Division and the (at that time, unnamed) bedroom community of Pinawa, Man., created for them by Atomic Energy.
The Pinawa pioneers reasoned that, since they would be working together and living together, they should also worship together, says Dr. Guthrie. With significant input from Rev. Bob Plant, minister of the community church in Deep River, Ont., they ...