A Spokane Lutheran church with fewer than 10 regular attendees has sold its building for about $550,000 to the Ethiopian Orthodox congregation that had worshipped in its basement, and is giving away the proceeds.

First United Methodist Church of Miami sold its downtown acre for $55 million in 2018, bought 20,000 square feet inside the 49-storey tower built on the site, and put the rest of the proceeds into an endowment.

A 15-month dispute over the Naperville Korean United Methodist Church building in Illinois ended in a settlement after a court had ordered a breakaway group that seized the property to return it.

Evangelical families in San Isidro Arenal, Oaxaca, lost homes, cacao and mango fields and a church building, and faced expulsion under a 1993 accord making Catholicism the only permitted religion.

St Luke’s Episcopal Church in Altoona, Pennsylvania, sold its building to a local contractor and now rents back its sanctuary and food pantry space for $800 a month, with utilities included.

Central Community Church in Wichita has completed 48 low-income senior homes on its land, funded by state tax credits and a federal grant and managed by Mennonite Housing, a decade after the idea began.

Gospel artist Bishop Hezekiah Walker’s Love Fellowship Tabernacle broke ground on HezHouse Apartments in East New York, a 236-unit affordable and supportive housing development built with non-profit and private partners.

A Tongan Free Wesleyan congregation in Timaru leased, then in 2017 bought, the former St Peter’s Anglican Church, and used a $500,000 government grant for earthquake strengthening, safety work and upgrades.

A Black-led Virginia church that bought its Midlothian site more than a decade ago with a future sale in mind is working with D.R. Horton on 192 apartments and 40 townhomes, designed to fit county height limits.

Summit Mennonite Church in Barberton, Ohio, down to about two dozen active members, chose to keep going rather than close. It sold its building to a local food ministry and now rents a fellowship room at a nearby church.