Immanuel Church (OPC): A New and Separate Congregation Friday, May 13, 2002 By Member Sarah Wieberdink There are many special moments in the life of a church. The first service is a particularly special moment, as is its first admission of new members and its first baptism. Another foundational moment is when a congregation transitions from being a church plant overseen by a mother church to its own separate church with its own leadership, a step known in the OPC as particularization. On May 13th, Immanuel Church in Anoka took this step by holding its particularization service, an event that many have been eagerly awaiting for a long time. Amid much thanks and praise to our Lord and together with many dear friends and neighboring