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REBUILDING CHURCH Leg
A MATTER OF FAITH

SATAN HAS done his worst
and now it’s-time for the
power of the Holy Spirit.

Those are the words Rev.
Ray Murrin of St. John's
Church in North Vancouver
on fire that razed the con-
gregations’ 75-year-old home
last Friday.

While fire investigators
and RCMP lab specialists
sift through the remains of
the church in efforts to
establish the cause of the

fire,. the church has begun:

the process of evaluating the

loss and making plans: for a

new church.

Rev. Murrin, who was ‘in-

formed that the church was

burning at $:30 a.m. Friday, :

said seeing. the building: in
‘flames was “‘one.. of : the
greatest shocks" of his life.

The’ shock, though, has
been more than balanced by
the effect the fire has had on
the church,

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_ denominations,
- groups and individuals.

this: has
knitted us together as acon .

gregation,’’ says Rev. Mur-
tin. “We've always had a
close, community-minded
group but a great unity has
come from all of this.”

As well as the closeness
the disaster has generated
among members of the con-

gregation, the fire has also -

resulted in support from
members of other churches
and groups across the North
Shore.

That support, says Rev.
Murrin, has come not only
from the Anglican churches
that have grown from St.

John's (St, John's. is the

oldest of the North Shore’s
Anglican church, was
established in: 1899 and is the
mother church to four
others), but from other

“A jot of people have

come around to offer their
Support,’’ says Rev. Murrin,
.who adds that the church is

in the process now of sorting

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things out and deciding what
has to be done.

While that goes on —- and
the reconstruction of a new
church at the same site takes
place — services will con-
tinue to be held in the
church hall: adjacent to the
church.

Meanwhile, fire officials
say it will likely be a week

-before the exact cause of the

fire is established. They and
police are continuing to treat
the fire as ‘highly
suspicious’, however, and
arson is strongly suspected.

The fire was reported by a
passerby carly Friday morn-
ing and, before it could be
extinguished, had caused
heavy structural damage to
the building.

The fire appears to have
Started at or near an en-
trance door and from there
to have spread quickly
through the wood frame
building.

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broken
in crash

A NORTH Shore woman
suffered a broken leg when
her vehicle was forced into
the path of an oncoming car
on Capilano Road Thursday
afternoon.

The unidentified woman
was driving north on
Capilano Road in the crub
lane when an as-yet uniden-
tified driver forced her into
the curb. _

The woman’s car spun out
of control and crossed the
centre dividing line of the
toad and was struck by. a
south-bound vehicle.

The driver of the car that
forced the woman into the
curb fled the scene and is be-
ing sought by police.

The woman was taken to
Lions Gate Hospital by am-
butance for treatment of her
injuries.

19 - Wednesday, February 13, 1985 - North Shore’ News

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at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber at the Municipal
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