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History of the property and challenges faced by the Full Gospel Mission Church

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Bishop Tyrone Butler explains the history of the property and the challenges faced by the Full Gospel Mission Church in developing it.

The church has struggled with lack of resources and partnerships to develop the property
The previous bishop became elderly and less active, hindering development efforts
The original plan to build a church on the property faced issues
New partnerships with developers are now enabling churches to expand their footprint and services

Adrienne Adams

0:21:31

So can you just, you know, explain to my colleagues what happened, you know, what the process was as far as the plans for this property and how it has evolved into today getting to this committee?

Max Bookman

0:21:47

Should I start?

Tyrone Butler

0:21:49

I mean, I can Okay.

0:21:52

To be honest and transparent, this church, I only took over the pastorate two years ago.

0:21:57

I do know some of the history of it.

0:21:59

The problem is for churches, as you can imagine, the lack of resource and partnership.

0:22:05

It's very difficult for churches to obtain the resource to do development.

0:22:09

These kind of partnerships that are becoming available now with developers and churches are actually a great benefit to us because it'll allow us to extend.

0:22:16

So all those years, the property was owned.

0:22:18

The prior bishop, you know, become became, of course, elderly, wasn't as active.

0:22:23

Eventually, I believe he was in a nursing home, so it wasn't a lot that he was doing at that point.

0:22:28

The other persons in the church continued to try to do their best to reach out to the community.

0:22:32

But without the partnership and resource, it was unfortunately unable to be developed.

0:22:36

It just was unfortunate, and he already addressed what happened with the original plan, which the bishop at the time, who was bishop of Roman Norma, did desire to build a church on that property, but the issue happened with that development.

UNKNOWN

0:22:47

Okay.

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