For years, the Mustard Seed has used a church located east of downtown Edmonton to help people in need. But soon, the over 100-year-old building will be demolished. A bittersweet moment for the non-profit.

The Mustard Seed has been using the church since the 1980s, including recently handing out food hampers.

The CEO says they needed to move operations to their downtown site in October because of structural issues.

“And the repair costs are well into the millions of dollars, and even then, if we repaired it, we’d still have an old building. And so you know, for us, we’re a not-for-profit and in making investments in the community, we want to make investments where we get the maximum life change impact as possible,” said James Gardiner, the CEO of the Mustard Seed.

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