St. John’s Shaughnessy, Imposters

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When the Diocese of New Westminster ejected the thriving congregation of St. John’s Shaughnessy, it lost a source of income.

Consequently, St. John’s Shaughnessy has been costing the diocese of New Westminster around $20,000 per month to stay afloat. It’s so empty that its own staff have declared that it resembles a mausoleum.

As a result, it has had to resort to unusual measures to fill its coffers.

Since the building was hijacked by the diocese, populated with a pretend congregation and the whole enterprise belongs to the Anglican Church of Canada, an organisation devoted to imitating a Christian denomination, what more fitting way to raise some cash than rent the church to a TV production crew making a TV series called “Imposters”?

Here is a clip where one of the villains is marching through the church for “the money grab”. Just like the offering at a Sunday service:

 

And here is a clip with the church van being used as a getaway vehicle:

 

I thought the rector was very realistic.

7 thoughts on “St. John’s Shaughnessy, Imposters”

  2. This, like Mrs Turner, above, was once my Church too

    I came across it by chance in 1982

    A Regent College student, Greg McKitrick, a member of 1st Baptist, rented our basement suite of our house in Kerrisdale told me about St John’s (Shaughnessy)

    It was up and running

    I thought

    One of the few old line Churches that was doing so

    I come from a United Church of Canada background

    So

    I wanted to meet people my own age

    In order to do that would go to the Evangelical Churches

    But

    I found it hard to adjust

    Sermons good

    Alive atmosphere

    But

    It’s quite a difference from a United Church

    Went to Broadway Church for 1 year is Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada tried to adjust but just couldn’t do it went to the youth pastor said, “There’s nothing here for you”, so we both agreed.

    St John’s (Shaughnessy) had the Theology of PAOC but closer to the familiar surroundings of the United Church chose that in 1982

    But

    Then we had the split in 2002 that was 20 years later

    The Diocese calls us ‘Closed, Old Fashioned, Low Anglican is how St Paul’s on Pendrell & Jervis used to be can imagine what they’d think of the Broadway Church?

    We had a congregation of around 1000 now the same building is around 30, 40, 50 or something like that is quite a change

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  4. How horribly, terribly sad. St. John’s used to be the “it” Church to go to on Sunday evening for young people, of all kinds of denominations and backgrounds. Horribly, horribly, horribly sad all of this.

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      • It was a lot of fun to attend that service. Where are all those people attending Church now, if the congregation was that large originally?

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        • Many have gone to their reward by now. The ‘new’ St. John’s absorbed a good few. By no means all had any Anglican background.There was also always a large student contingent, transient by nature. At the start it was like a Regent College chapel service, the student contingent was so large.

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