Porcupine Plain Pastoral Charge was formed as a new United Church charge in 1925, containing Porcupine Plain (Bethany United Church, named 1948), Green Lake, High Tor, Pee Wee and Somme. Later points included Bjorkdale (Hillside United Church), Chelan, and Spruce View. After becoming a Shared Ministry (ca.1952), the Porcupine Plain Charge has included congregations of St. John's Hillside Anglican/United Church, in Bjorkdale, Bethany-Good Shepherd Anglican/United Church, in Porcupine Plain, and St. Andrew's United Church, in Shand Creek (ca.1982).

Both Bjorkdale and Porcupine Plain closed June 30, 2010, and the RM of Porcupine preaching point ended its association with the United Church November 2011. Porcupine Plain (Shared Ministry) Pastoral Charge itself closed December 31, 2011.

Harold Pope was born on Oct. 25, 1899, in London, Ontario. From 1911 he lived in Moose Jaw and received his public schooling. He served with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. After the war, Pope attended Osgood Hall in Toronto. Pope was admitted to the Saskatchewan Bar in 1922. He was appointed as a member of the King's Counsel in 1937, and as a District Court Judge in 1955. He served on the Moose Jaw City Council for twelve years. He was a president of the Chamber of Commerce, the Saskatchewan Fish and Game League, the Moose Jaw Rotary Club, the Saskatchewan Division of the Canadian Cancer Soceity, the Saskatchewan Rivers Development Association, and the Western Canada Reclamation Association.

Pope served as counsel for Canada before the International Joint Commission from 1948 to 1955. He was also counsel for the province of Saskatchewan on international and interprovincial water issues. He was also counsel to the Royal Commission on the South Saskatchewan River Dam. He was appointed Chairman of the Saskatchewan Water Resources Commission in 1965, a position he held until the winding-up of the Commission's activities in 1972.