VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC: Want to buy an Anglican church?
VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC: Want to buy an Anglican church?
Seven properties on the market from Crofton to View Royal
By Louise Dickson,
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/
October 18, 2011
Anglican Church properties for sale include St. Columba's Church in View Royal, show here in a 2010 file photo. Photograph by: Adrian Lam, timescolonist.com
The Anglican Church is selling seven church properties on southern Vancouver Island to pay down its deficit.
"It's been an extremely hard decision," Chris Pease, asset manager for the Diocese of British Columbia, said Monday. "It's a sad time. People have been part of a community and some of their families actually constructed these churches.
Some feel anger. Some feel sadness because it's part of their community that's dying."
The seven church properties, listed for sale with commercial real estate brokers DTZ Barnicke, have been closed in the past few years as church attendance decreased and funding declined.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Seven properties on the market from Crofton to View Royal
By Louise Dickson,
Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/
October 18, 2011
Anglican Church properties for sale include St. Columba's Church in View Royal, show here in a 2010 file photo. Photograph by: Adrian Lam, timescolonist.comThe Anglican Church is selling seven church properties on southern Vancouver Island to pay down its deficit.
"It's been an extremely hard decision," Chris Pease, asset manager for the Diocese of British Columbia, said Monday. "It's a sad time. People have been part of a community and some of their families actually constructed these churches.
Some feel anger. Some feel sadness because it's part of their community that's dying."
The seven church properties, listed for sale with commercial real estate brokers DTZ Barnicke, have been closed in the past few years as church attendance decreased and funding declined.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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