After a lengthy legal battle with the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles over the St. Luke’s of the Mountains Anglican Church on Foothill Boulevard, the more than 200-member congregation is bracing for word from a state appeals court on its potential eviction.
A decision from the Fourth District Court of Appeal, based in San Diego, is expected this summer, after oral arguments in the appeal to the July 2007 Los Angeles Superior Court ruling upholding the church’s eviction ended in May.
Since then, the congregation has been waiting for a court decision that could force them out of the historic church property.
“We are waiting in expectation to see what God has in store for us next,” said Debbie Kollgaard, St. Luke’s senior warden.
The legal battle began when St. Luke’s parishioners voted to split from the Episcopal Church in February 2006, citing theological differences. They then joined the Anglican Province of Uganda, triggering a lawsuit from the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, which claimed that the church property was owned by the Episcopal Church.
St. Luke’s vestry, a 12-member governing body, argued that the property and 83-year-old church building belonged to its congregation.
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