'They Can Take Our Facility, But We'll Just Find Another One': Canadian Church Goes Underground; Pastor Coates Leads from a Secret Location

Dan Andros : Apr 13, 2021
Faithwire.com

"It's going to be the Lord's people who stand and herald [Jesus] as King and call governments to submit to Him as King and to govern in accord with the very Word that will judge them on judgement day..." -Pastor James Coates

[Faithwire.com] Canadian Pastor James Coates of GraceLife Church held services this weekend. Normally, this would be an unremarkable fact—but given he was recently released from jail only to see his church fenced off and shut down by authorities, it's made this worship service all the more impactful. (Screengrab image)

Earlier [Monday], GraceLife published their service online, with congregants faces blurred out of the picture.

Pastor Coates greeted those in attendance at the "undisclosed location" by saying, "they can take our facility, but we'll just find another one."

A few moments later, two gentlemen (who were only identified in the video as Joe and John) came forward to lead the congregation in song. One of the men began by saying, "Did you ever think you'd be part of the underground Church?"

A few songs and in there's a beautiful rendition of "It is Well With My Soul" in which the congregation can be clearly heard singing, despite their profiles being intentionally blurred out so as not to be identified on video... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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