Schools

The Lord’s Prayer is not allowed in most  U.S. Public schools any more.  A kid in Minnesota, wrote the following.

Facing empty pews, Massachusetts churches are handing over buildings for housing and homeless services, including a Roxbury parish planning 217 mostly affordable homes and a Cambridge church converting its rectory, school and convent into 46 affordable units.

As about 200 clergy and lay delegates met to elect a successor to Bishop Howard Gregory, the Gleaner noted that the Anglican Church owns vast properties and many schools in Jamaica even as it faces falling membership and financial pressure.

At a centennial service for Chetwood Primary and the two Mount Alvernia schools in Montego Bay, Jamaica’s education minister said church-run schools are the country’s top performers, a reminder of how much of Jamaica’s school estate the churches built and still anchor.

A Michigan school district has bought the Lutheran church next to its high school for $950,000 to house programmes for young adults with disabilities and its robotics team, with the congregation leasing back until 2025.

The Moravian Church is affiliated with 33 government-funded primary schools in St Elizabeth, Manchester, Westmoreland and Clarendon, and was honoured in 2023 for 200 years in education since it opened a school for enslaved children in 1823.

Monsignor Gladstone Wilson College, Montego Bay’s new Roman Catholic boys’ high school, began in-person classes in 2023 using borrowed classrooms, online teaching from Campion and a tuition subsidy from the Catholic Diocese in Toronto.

As a Westmoreland eviction deadline approached, squatters warned of civil war, even as the owner quietly spared a school and a church, and a 20-acre resettlement gift sat unanswered by government for years.

The Hanover Municipal Corporation served a stop order on Doer of Faith Church of God after excavation on its Hopewell land caused a land slip that endangered a classroom block at neighbouring Hopewell High School.

At the Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston’s 2023 Pentecost Assembly, PM Andrew Holness said government will expand its partnership with churches to establish more schools, praising faith-based education as still powerful and valuable.

Three HEART/NSTA Trust VTDI students led a $600,000 renovation of the church-owned Miracle Tabernacle Basic School in St Ann’s Bay, finishing in two months what its board chairman said would have taken the church three years to fund.

A.R. Bernard’s Christian Cultural Center in East New York wants to turn 10.5 acres of church land into a $1.2 billion urban village with affordable housing, a trade school, a supermarket, childcare and senior living, in a 50-50 partnership with a developer.

Six affordable eco-homes have been built on the site of Northop’s United Reformed Church in Flintshire, where builders found a 1932 time capsule, prompting local schoolchildren to create a new one.

Ardenne Prep, a Church of God school on Hope Road, broke ground on a $56 million two-storey administration block to replace the one destroyed by fire in 2019, with classrooms, labs and a sick bay included.

The Diocese of Charlotte sold 73 acres of surplus land in south Charlotte for $36.5 million. The buyer kept 18 acres for housing and sold 55 acres for a public high school, while the diocese put the proceeds into land, buildings and an endowment.