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Members of a Winnipeg church are mourning the death of the man who grew their congregation to be one of the largest in the country.

Springs Church pastor Leon Fontaine made a name for himself as a charismatic speaker and earned notoriety for hosting services that broke public health rules throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fontaine died on Saturday, according to his family. He was a 59-year-old grandfather, days away from celebrating a milestone birthday.

“It’s with devastated hearts that we’re sharing with you today that on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 5 p.m. our dad, pastor Leon went to be with Jesus,” said Eden Shimoda, in a prerecorded video of her and her four siblings that was aired at the end of respective services held throughout the day Sunday.

The four-minute clip shows Fontaine’s five adult children, all of whom are active members of Springs Church, discussing the family’s collective shock and their father’s love for the non-denominational Christian congregation.

Danielle Fontaine Craig told the church community the reason their father had been absent from giving in-person sermons for upwards of a month was because their parents took a vacation and Fontaine “got himself checked out,” after which he learned about some personal issues.

Fontaine’s health took a sharp and unexpected turn in recent days, she said.

The family did not disclose details about the illness or cause of death. Springs Church administrators requested privacy and declined to provide comment Sunday.

The congregation typically holds in-person, drive-in and virtual services. On Sunday, none of the sermons were livestreamed for the public.

The Canadian flag outside Springs Church at 595 Lagimodiere Blvd., the Christian institution’s main location in southeast Winnipeg, was flown

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TV station in Lethbridge

CJIL-DT (channel 17) branded on-air as Miracle Channel, is a Christianreligious television station in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, owned by The Miracle Channel Association. The station's studios are located on 31 Street North in Lethbridge, and its transmitter is located on Highway 25 north of the city.

Launched in 1996, CJIL was the first over-the-air religious TV station in Canada. It has been carried on cable and satellite providers in other parts of Canada since 2000.

History

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) granted a broadcasting licence to Dick and Joan Dewert (also known as Dick and Joan Deweert) on April 4, 1995. It debuted on January 14, 1996, broadcasting in southern Alberta, after Canada's 60-year ban on religious broadcasting was lifted. It expanded nationally on September 11, 2000. CJIL was the Canadian partner of the U.S. religious broadcaster Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). (The Dewerts had set up an unlicensed relay transmitter for TBN in 1986, which was shut down by the CRTC before CJIL's license was granted.) The station is available globally via satellite and on the Internet.

In 1999 and 2001, two additional transmitters were approved by the CRTC to be added in Bow Island and Burmis.

On May 20, 2007, Dick Dewert admitted to an extramarital affair and resigned from the station. Joan Dewert resigned as well. Mervyn Mediwake was installed as the interimCEO. On January 1, 2010, after a series of interim leaders, the board of directors of the Miracle Channel Association hired Leon Fontaine, senior pastor of the Winnipeg-based Springs Church, as permanent CEO.

On July 8, 2013, TBN announced a partnership with Miracle Channel. As a result, Miracle Channel began airing some of TBN's flagship programs, including Praise the Lord and Behind The Scenes, while TBN's networks picked up some of M

International Christian television network

Television channel

The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN; legally Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.) is an international Christian-based broadcasttelevision network and the world's largest religious television network. TBN was headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, until March 3, 2017, when it sold its highly visible office park, Trinity Christian City. The broadcaster retained its studios in nearby Tustin.

Auxiliary studio facilities are located in Irving, Hendersonville, Gadsden, Decatur, Miami and Orlando, Tulsa and New York City. TBN has characterized itself as broadcasting programs hosted by a diverse group of ministries from Evangelical, traditional Protestant and Catholic denominations, non-profit charities, Messianic Jewish and other Christian media personalities. TBN also offers a wide range of original programming, faith-based films, and political opinion commentary from various distributors.

The TBN corporation owns and operates four broadcast networks in the United States—TBN, TBN Inspire, Positiv and Enlace—as well as a number of religious networks in other countries.Matt Crouch has been TBN's president and head of operations since 2015.

History

The Trinity Broadcasting Network was co-founded as the Trinity Broadcasting Systems in 1973 by Paul Crouch, an Assemblies of God minister, and his spouse Jan Crouch. TBN began its broadcasting activities by renting time on the independent station KBSA (now UniMásowned-and-operated stationKFTR-DT) in Ontario, California. After that station was sold, he began buying two hours a day of programming time on KLXA-TV in Fontana, California, in early 1974. That station was put up for sale shortly afterward. Paul Crouch then placed a bid to buy the station for $1 million and raised $100,000 for