{"id":804,"date":"2021-07-29T14:37:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livinghopeorillia.com\/?page_id=804"},"modified":"2025-02-27T00:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T00:39:21","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/livinghopeorillia.com\/?page_id=804","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Building Our Church:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • May 6, 1953 <\/strong>~ First CRC, Orillia held its institution service in First Baptist Church in Orillia, and then continued holding its weekly services in what is now Marchmont Baptist Church. Later, services were moved to the West Ward Community Hall and then again to the Orange Hall.<\/li>\n
  • April 27, 1960<\/strong> ~ The new church building that was erected at 157 Coldwater Road was dedicated, and the first service in that location was held on May 1, 1960.<\/li>\n
  • September 12, 1984<\/strong>~ Another new church building, this time located at 50 Fittons Road West, our current location, was officially dedicated. The first service had been held here already on July 25, 1984.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Pastoring Our Church:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Rev. Jacob Kuntz <\/strong>~ February 1958 \u2013 September 1962<\/li>\n
    • Rev. Evert Gritter<\/strong> ~ September 1963 \u2013 September 1966<\/li>\n
    • Rev. Wiebe Van Dyk <\/strong>~ <\/strong>January 1967 \u2013 June 1973<\/li>\n
    • Rev. Siebert Van Houten <\/strong>~ September 1973 \u2013 August 1977<\/li>\n
    • Rev. Peter Slofstra <\/strong>~ September 1977 \u2013 June 1980<\/li>\n
    • Rev. Gerard Ringnalda <\/strong>~ September 1982 \u2013 June 1987<\/li>\n
    • Rev. Peter Meyer <\/strong>~ September 1988 \u2013 October 1995<\/li>\n
    • Rev. Richard Nanninga <\/strong>~ <\/strong>September 1996 \u2013 June 2003<\/li>\n
    • Rev. Doug Vanderkamp <\/strong>~ <\/strong>September 2004 \u2013 June 2010<\/li>\n
    • Rev. Jane Porter <\/strong>~ <\/strong>June 2014 \u2013August 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Painting of our original church building constructed in 1960. Building Our Church: May 6, 1953 ~ First CRC, Orillia held its institution service in First Baptist Church in Orillia, and then continued holding its weekly services in what is now Marchmont Baptist Church. Later, services were moved to the West Ward Community Hall and then again […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-804","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinghopeorillia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinghopeorillia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinghopeorillia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinghopeorillia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinghopeorillia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/livinghopeorillia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/livinghopeorillia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/804\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinghopeorillia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}