Although the Good News Church was officially opened on January 15, 1990, the spiritual heritage of this area goes much further back than that. According to The Pentecostal Testimony, it was in November 1932 that Pastor H.R. & Mrs. Pannabeker opened a "spacious tabernacle" on St. Clair Avenue West, "on one of the city's busiest and most prominent thoroughfares". They called their new church "Glad Tidings Tabernacle."

The Founding of the Good News Church

The beginning of The Good News Church was a burden that Pastor Douglas Rudd had for the unreached areas of Toronto. He noted that the large area below highway 401 to Lake Ontario centred around Bathurst and Dufferin Streets, and had no Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada churches apart from ethnic churches. Aside from the current presence of The Good News Church, this is still the case. When Pastor Rudd began looking for space to open a church, the building that was available to lease was the Orange Hall.