Trinity Anglican Church in St. Thomas was founded in 1877 to replace an older church which worshippers had outgrown.
Alas, the church’s website is no more, just like the church. The parish’s last gasp of life can be found in its Facebook page. Unlike their owners who dwell in a realm where moth and rust doth corrupt, Facebook pages are beneficiaries of cyberspace immortality. There the parish optimistically proclaims that it is a “vibrant, engaging, faith community with a fully accessible building.”
In a sense that is still true, it’s just not a Christian faith community. For all we know it never was, at least within living memory.
From this:
to this in one short year of the plague:
I am not in the least surprised as this is one of the first diocese to basically denounce the Christian faith and worship the “god of political expediency”. Tragically this has been done by many within the ACoC community and until the apostate leaders are removed from office the decline will continue.
we left are ACNA had 3 plants
Huh?
St John’s Vancouver has 3 Church Plants are St John’s Richmond had when we were still in the old building St John’s (Shaughnessy), the newer St Peter’s Fireside at UBC Robson Square at Robson & Howe & the newest Sojourners at UBC Chapel formally the University Hill United Church closed just like Trinity Anglican Church did. I’m from a United Church of Canada background before joining the Anglican Church. I’m sad to see the very big price the United Church has paid & am now seeing it in the Anglican Church as well. When we left St John’s (Shaughnessy) in 2002 to Oakridge Adventist on Baille & W37th between Oak & Cambie Streets joined ACNA is when we started up 2 more new Church Plants. We’re doing well. We lost the old building which was beautiful but we’re doing well right now.
I’m surprised they kept the name of St. Thomas. I would have thought they would have given it a Muslim name.
“St. Thomas” isn’t just the name of the (former) church building; it is the name of the city. Thus, the new owners may be keeping the name because they intend to communicate that it is an Islamic centre for the CITY of St. Thomas, Ontario. The Christian meaning of “St. Thomas” may not be on their mind at all. I wonder if they will want to modify the building’s architecture to add Islamic features such as minarets?
Another anti-Scriptural conquest for Chrislam now overspreading (again) the lands to which once the Christian Mission Commisioned by Jesus Christ + Matthew 28 to go forth with nothing but HIs Gospel.
+ Matthew chapter 10 sets down this, Jesus Christ sanctioned Manifesto, for His Church and its Sola weapon of Defence;The WORD of GOD:
“Think not that I am come to send peace on the earth, but a sword: I came not to send peace, but a sword” v. 34.
When The Sola King and Head of His Church comes to Judge it according to its Scriptural fidelity to HIM,, The Living WORD, + I Corinthians chs. 3, 4, for those Chrislam capitulating and Gayspel affirming nominal Christian ‘Churches’ the ironic sentence will be delivered,
“It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment, than for that city.” v.15.
In memoriam + David Amess, Friday, October 15, 2021, in a Methodist Church
“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul:
but rather fear him which is able to destroy both body and soul in Hell.” Amen.
What happens to the beautiful stained glass in all the churches that are closed, torn down, or converted to mosques?
I think there was an Anglican Church on the North Shore that closed an became an Islamic Mosque as well. Also, I’ve met 4 Muslims who have come to Canada & become Christians are free to do so here & they do. They see the Christians & the freedom & convert. I met a Muslim who said, “I love Christians”. I find Muslims are quite soft & receptive to Christianity more so that people born here. Give it a try. Talk to a Muslim. I do at UBC. They go to the free talks at Regent Christian College at UBC.
In the alternative: as recently evidenced in the best and the worst of Britain near Liverpool Cathedral on November 11, 2021,’Pray to Stay’ has replaced ‘Pay to Stay’, forcing the UK Government to undertake re. CoE et al. a formal investigation into asylum seekers who are “gaming the system”.
With its rebellious anti-Scriptural Chrislam and Gayspel sympathies, the faux Converts knew which key Diocese to seek out and find.
That was St. Richard’s Anglican Church in the Norgate area of North Vancouver. It was built around 1949 and was sold to a Muslim group about 2009.
oh, yes, that rings a bell