Until 2000 and the retirement of the Rector of the Parish of Lakefield-Milles-Isles, St. John’s Shrewsbury was a functioning congregation with a small but supportive congregation. However this congregation was no longer local; it was composed of members or descendants of families which had lived in Shrewsbury for generations but had by 1999 moved away, to Lachute or Montreal or Ottawa.
In the year 2000, with the formation of the Greater Parish of St. Andrew, St. John’s came under the care and stewardship of Holy Trinity, Lakefield. Over the period of trusteeship, the number of services per year has declined. Consequently, there is now only one annual service at St. John’s, the minimum number needed to keep the church open.
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