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.

Dublin’s Catholic archdiocese asked the city council to rezone 33 church sites and several schools so homes could be built on them in future, arguing many sit in disadvantaged areas where housing need should take priority.

Bermuda’s 2021 plans to close primary schools put a spotlight on their church roots: St George’s Preparatory began in a Methodist Sunday school in 1876, and St David’s Primary in a building owned by St Luke’s AME Church in 1893.

Solas Early Childhood Institution in Westmoreland has operated inside a church building for 15 years on land whose title a donor’s grandmother helped secure, and received donations in 2020 to support online classes.

Cedar Grove Academy, built for $600 million on New Testament Church of God land in Portmore, opened unfinished in 2013 with classes in the church hall. Five years on, its first CSEC cohort recorded 100 per cent passes in nine subjects.

An ecumenical partnership run through Church World Service repaired or built 110 houses in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew, at US$4,000 to US$5,000 per new home, with United Church of Christ disaster funds also helping schools and health work.