March 2023St John's United Church
An "Affirming" or very gay-friendly United Church since the 1990s. They were Q-friendly in the 1990s, possibly before, and became officially Affirming in 2007.
Location: 6025 Stanley St
Consult the website for service times or to book a meeting with the minster.
Full Wayves Magazine article here.
See ReligionLinks for other gay friendly Churches.
History
June 2019- ?
- Hosted the SafeHarbourChurch Christmas Dinner for many years.
- 1998 circa
- DanielMacKay gets the bells working again after them being silent for... 40? years. Story and photos here.
- September 23, 2007
- After a decade of discussions, officially became Affirming
- 2008
- The church building at 2570 Windsor St (at Willow) has reached the end of its life.
- December 28, 2008
- A video of the last full service by member Lloyd Fraser. RevLindaYates was presiding. Includes NorvalCollins playing the bells at 6:37. Rev Victor (Vic) Moriarty,
- January 4, 2009
- The last service at 2570 Windsor. The congregation's meetings moved to the Lilian Piercey Concert Hall at the Maritime Conservatory of Music
- Dan Conlin took some photos on this day; they are on line here. Dan writes: I selected exterior views that have the welcoming rainbow on the sign and threw in a couple of the march to the new location at Chebucto School.
- February, 2011
- SPIRITPlace is proposed as a re-use for the lot: a re-sized church plus a 65-unit LGBT-friendly housing development. See the December, 2010 and March, 2011 WayvesMagazine articles. The plan was eventually scuttled by the church's Willow Street neighbours with concerns about traffic, shading etc.
- 2016
- The building was sold for $1.35M; on June 7, 2019 it got the wrecking ball.
- 2022
- The congregation moved into their new space on Stanley Street
Tags: NeedsResearchCategory: a history of becoming Affirming. AlStewart talks about it in his interview.
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