Three years ago, a couple in Exeter, Ont., stepped up to save their church from closing its doors and being torn down. Thames Road-Elimville United was struggling financially and close to shuttering when congregant Sarah Govers and her husband, Dave, decided to purchase the church and its surrounding property.

“Generations of families have been going to this church, and it is kind of the hub of our little rural community,” says Govers, who also owns Govers Family Farm and Pumpkin Patch next door.

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Govers and her family grew up on the farm and now run it as an agrotourism business. Thames Road-Elimville United is her home church — she got married there and........

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