were moved to an apartment on Longworth Avenue, and the net gain on the sale of the Ambrose Street property was $73,368.

The library at First Baptist provided a wealth of Christian material for the congregation, and both youth and adults made great use of it. It became the dreamed benefit to the church that Ruth Roberts and her committee wanted when they opened it in 1968. From that early beginning, the efforts ofSharon Vance, Joyce Rhead, Jean Barrett, and the Library Committee expanded both the organization, volume and quality of modern information available for church and community use.

In March, the Pastoral Search Committee announced that they were recommending that Dr. Richard C. Coffin be called to the First United Baptist Church of Charlottetown. A positive vote by the congregation led to a changing of the guard in October, when Arthur and Edna Hadley returned home to Ontario to continue their well deserved retirement. Dr. Richard Coffin took his place as Senior Pastor on Sunday, October 31, 1994. He had been the General Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Baptist Federation, and had also served in an executive capacity with the Baptist World Alliance. He had also served a term as president of the North American Baptists. Richard and Jeannie Coffin, both Islanders, were home and the congregation soon learned that the one thing they had better get used to was hearing about the game of hockey, a recreational passion of Dr. Coffin.

The Hadleys left a congregation that had truly enjoyed them, as evidenced in the poem that Marlene Bryenton wrote as a parting tribute. Arthur Hadley too departed with some words of wisdom, ”Don’t make excuses, face the problem; Don’t delay, time is short; Don’t limit God; Don’t dwell on problems from the past; Seize the opportunities of the future and God has given tremendous opportunities and responsibilities, are we prepared to dare?” wise challenges from a wise man.

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