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Alice Garrigus spent the first half of her life in various locations in New England. She studied at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount Holyoke College) and worked as a school teacher.
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She resumed preaching, and over the next couple of years received, she claimed, messages from "mysterious strangers" and directly from God that she should found a mission in Saint John"son Together with a missionary couple, she travelled to Newfoundland, arriving in Saint John"s in December 1910. The three established the "Bethesda Mission" and began their work in 1911.
In 1912, her co-preachers left Newfoundland for health reasons, leaving Garrigus in charge.
Garrigus, not known for her organizational strengths, did not expand the movement outside the Saint John"s area. The main thrusts of her preaching were personal salvation through Christ, and his imminent, apocalyptic return to Earth.
New converts started their own personal missions, and one of these, Robert C. English, eventually became co-pastor with Garrigus of the Bethesda Mission. This led to Vaters replacing English as the head of the movement.
