CANTON − In less than a year, Aaron and Keitha Brown have started a church, outgrown their borrowed space and now relocated their ministry to the former Canton Pentecostal Temple at 950 McKinley Ave. NW.
The Church of Canton couple was leading nondenominational worship services last summer in a downtown warehouse owned by Campbell’s Landscaping.
After moving to their new space last month, Aaron Brown said, some of their friends were worried the new place might be too small.
“And I’m like, ‘I know,'” he said. “We don’t want to be a big church. We need to be missional, so it almost forces our mission, which is to go out into the community, but it allows us a stable place; there’s some permanence here. It gets back to the mission God gave us to go out. It forces us to establish house churches and to plant new places in the community.”
Couple leads new church: Couple launches The Church of Canton in unique space
Aaron Brown said he learned about the church’s availability through Maria Byington, a friend of Stark County developer-preservationist Steve Coon . Coon bought the building after the membership at Canton Pentecostal Temple dwindled to five members, three of whom have returned to join The Church of Canton.