Anglican Church in lawsuit limbo

From North West Texas- (Note the rector, Stan Burdock, was once in the Diocese of Pittburgh)

A desert tranquility surrounds the buildings of the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd in San Angelo. Mesquite trees shade its parking lot and sway in the breeze, a broad expanse of rolling grass and dirt spreads out to the east of the buildings, and a large cross adorns the side of one of the walls, while ivy creeps up others.

This peaceful domain, however, has been the field of a legal battle for more than two years. And now the congregation of the Good Shepherd has been left in limbo after Judge Blair Cherry ruled in favor of giving the property to the Diocese of Northwest Texas.

“We’re just waiting and watching and praying,” said Stanley Burdock, the pastor of the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd. “It’s an unfortunate situation, and we can trust to God to bring it to its appointed conclusion, although we don’t know what that conclusion will be.”

The Texas Third Court of Appeals Web site says the case was appealed Jan. 7.

More here-

http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2010/jan/20/anglican-church-in-lawsuit-limbo/