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turned his energy to establishing a
Baptist Church in Central Saanich.

By 1891 the community was
large enough to support the church
and the first meetings were held in
the school house on East Saanich
Road.

_ The church then moved to the
newly opened Temperance Hall,
now the Lions Club, on Central
Saanich Road in 1896.

Included in John Sluggett’s fare-
well message to his family in 1909
was an appeal to build a church
building for the congregation.
John Sluggett left a substantial

legacy to help build the church, to
which the family added more
funds and a donation of property
on West Saanich Road at Marchant
Drive.

By then the Sluggett property
included almost 1,100 acres and
Stretched from the Saanich inlet on
the west to one farm short of the
ocean on the east. The family
owned two-thirds of what is now
the community of Brentwood Bay.

The church, erected with volun-
teer labor, was dedicated in
December 1911 as a memorial to
John and Fanny Sluggett.

Rev. Fred Tapscott, who served
for 20 years, was the first of a long
line of pastors who have main-

tained a continuous ministry in the

church over the past 80 years.

A strong youth ministry has
been part of the church’s ministry
throughout the century, present
pastor Don Reed noted.

“Even in the low periods of the
church’s history, a vital youth
ministry was sustained.

“Through the years, several
youth have gone from the church
info Overseas Mission service.”

Pastor of the church since 1989,
Rev. Reed has encouraged building
a new facility. The congregation
now hopes construction on a new

~- church will start in 1994.

A homecoming, a stewardship
banquet and two special services
were held last weekend to mark
the church’s centennial.

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