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Did you know…

Ruth Morton Memorial Baptist Church, throughout its 100 years, celebrated many milestones in its own history, served as host to several Bible and Missionary conferences and conventions for B.C. and the Lower Mainland, and celebrated personal achievements together as a family.  

A special service was conducted on June 29th, 1912 for the laying of the cornerstone, with Mrs. Ruth Morton doing the honours, and the church was dedicated in a series of services from October 19th to November 2nd, 1913.  The church even celebrated the burning of its mortgage (“..which had nearly cost them their existence as a body..”) on October 12th, 1921.  

Ruth Morton Baptist celebrated its 25th, 40th, 50th and 75th anniversaries, each with a series of services with former pastors as speakers and a few of John and Ruth Morton’s descendants as special guests as members past and present reunited.  

The church hosted a Bible conference led by American evangelist, W. Leon Tucker, in June 1918.  It also hosted the 14th annual Convention of Regular Baptist Churches in B.C. in 1941 as well as others in the decades that followed.  The missionary fervour of our pastors was reflected in annual missionary conferences in the late 1950’s.  1969 was designated the “Year of Evangelism” at Ruth Morton and an evangelistic focus ran through the meetings and ministries that year, culminating in a missionary conference which gathered together many of the missionaries the church supported.  A missionary conference was also held in 1983.  

Ruth Morton church also cheerfully gathered together for weekly prayer and quarterly and annual business meetings, as we do today.  The minutes of those early meetings typically acknowledged the “particularly fine supper” that preceded the AGM’s.  It also marked the seasons, from the harvest bounty decorating the church on Thanksgiving to the Christmas concerts that blessed the attendees and participants alike.  

As a church family, we celebrated birthdays and baptisms, graduations, weddings, and wedding anniversaries, and alas mourned the passing of many who God called to Himself.

Through all our gatherings, with joy, laughter and sometimes tears, the faithfulness of God to His people has always been evident, and the grace He showed through our Savior, Jesus Christ, allows us to move forward with hope as we continue to build the church together….