The Margin examined how Canadian churches are redeveloping their land, from Toronto’s Bloor Street United and a Unitarian church sale to a 57-storey tower at Vancouver’s First Baptist, noting that $15 billion in land changed hands as churches closed.

A pastor’s doctrinal break from the Jamaica Baptist Union has become a Supreme Court property fight, with the union citing a 1969 vesting act to claim ownership of the church land he’s tried to register under his own name.

Nashville’s Watson Grove Baptist Church, founded in 1889, has hired a commercial real estate firm to explore a sale, ground lease or joint venture for its 1.5-acre Edgehill campus near Music Row.

Fort Worth’s Mount Gilead Baptist Church, founded in 1875 by formerly enslaved people, is selling its 1912 downtown building for $1.9 million and plans to rebuild its ministry after a final service.

Rockport Baptist Church in Arnold, Missouri, bought the former St David’s Catholic Church on seven acres for $1.75 million after the parish merged, gaining a large sanctuary, gym and classrooms.

Plans to demolish the B-listed Hillhead Baptist Church in Glasgow and replace it with flats were halted for a public hearing after 332 objections, with the developer saying keeping the 1883 building is not financially viable.

A Miami-Dade Baptist church plans 37 townhomes on its own land, priced in the $400,000s for households at or below 120% of area median income, in a bid to turn renters into owner-occupiers rather than sell to investors.

Faith-based groups including YWAM and the National Baptist Convention built 15 homes in a week in Montego Bay, part of a 200-home target for Hurricane Melissa survivors at US$6,000 to US$8,000 per unit.

Bonny Downs Baptist Church in East Ham has started building a new church and day centre topped by eight studios for people with experience of homelessness and two flats for workers, with members raising £120,000 by buying bricks.

Missouri Baptist disaster relief teams put a new metal roof on Elderslie Baptist Church, built in 1872, and replaced the roof at Townhead Baptist Church in western Jamaica, reopening a preschool closed for months after Hurricane Melissa.