When she first saw the list of other nominees for moderator of the United Church of Canada, Rev. Dr. Kimberly Health figured her chances of winning the position were slim at best.

“The candidates were so strong that I thought: ‘OK, the pressure is off,'” the longtime pastor at Brockville’s Wall Street United Church said Monday in a phone interview from Calgary, site of the 45th General Council of the United Church of Canada – which on Saturday elected her moderator .

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“God works in mysterious ways,” said Heath.

In a nail-biting finale, Heath won on the third ballot Saturday, edging out Rev. Samuel V. Dansokho.

The field also included Rev. Dr, John Pentland, Rev. Dr. Cheri DeNovo CM and Rev. Sungmin Jung . Dansokho and Heath were left standing at the end of the se

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