From Pittsburgh-It's a new day for Christ Our Hope Anglican Church — formerly St. Andrew's Episcopalian church — as it moves into a new house of worship at a former Methodist church in Harrison.
Christ Our Hope will celebrate its first services in its new home, at 929 Painter Ave., on Sunday. Services are scheduled for 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
The congregation of about 80 worshippers is leaving St. Andrew's, 1090 Edgewood Road, in New Kensington after failing to come to an agreement to buy back the New Kensington church building, according to the Rev. John Bailey, pastor of the former Episcopalian church that is now known as Christ Our Hope.
St. Andrew's was one of 41 breakaway Anglican parishes scattered throughout Western Pennsylvania that left the fold of the Episcopal Church in 2008 in the wake of the election of an openly gay priest as bishop of New Hampshire.
Biblical teaching on salvation and other issues caused the split as well.
Those churches moved under the umbrella of the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh.
“God helped us find this property,” Bailey said. “It seemed like the right place and at the perfect time. We find it to be a wonderful home for us to start a new ministry.”
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