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The Holiness Workers Church was a group organized by Frank Goff. He had been connected with Ralph Horner and the Holiness Movement in eastern Ontario before moving to Meaford. There he undertook revival work which he first saw as bringing renewal principally among Methodists. Due to hostility in local Methodist churches and to the need to provide spiritual nurture for his converts, Goff organized his followers as a church in 1902. Congregations were mainly in eastern Grey County, although one Toronto mission later joined the group. In 1918 it incorporated as the Gospel Workers Church. It united with the Church of the Nazarene in 1957.
The material was in the possession of Rev. Robert Buchanan (Free Methodist Church); in the course of their research on the Gospel Workers, Gerald and Helen Hobbs arranged for the microfilming, and for placing the films in the United Church Archives.