Artist impressions of the Burleigh Waters Church Project. Source: Supplied

AUSTRALIAS largest Catholic parish has had its prayers answered, with Burleigh set to become home to the citys second-largest church.

The Burleigh Catholic Parish has submitted plans for a $7.1 million church with seating for up to 700 people to Gold Coast City Council.

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That would make the proposed church, earmarked for land on the Marymount College site, second in seating only to the Clear Island Waters St Vincents.

If approved, construction will begin in July before the house of worship hosts its first services at Easter next year.

Parish priest Father Ken Howell said he was overjoyed the project could finally be bearing fruit after more than 15 years on the drawing board.

The plan was always to create a central parish church here but obviously it has taken a lot longer than anyone anticipated, he said.

Burleigh parish has more than 32,000 people living in it who list themselves as Catholic, based on census data, and this church will give them an appropriate place to worship and will be a tribute to them.

It is important to consolidate what has happened in the past as we move into the future with confidence.

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A reward has been offered to help a Fayette County man find his missing drone that he used to videotape construction at a church. It happened to Newnan resident John Stevenson who is a member of All Saints Anglican Church near Georgia Highway 54 in west Fayette County.

Recreational drones have gained in popularity. And people like Stevenson get amazing aerial video using high definition cameras. Stevenson has used his Blade 350 QX with a Go Pro camera attached to shoot aerial video of the church under construction. He's posted the video to the church's Facebook page so the very excited congregation can follow the construction.

And why not use a drone to do the Lord's work? Construction sites can be hazardous places. And John's aerial view was great and safe alternative.

On March 11, John was flying his quadcopter around the church property when it started acting funny. Stevenson says the aircraft drifted sideways and simply flew away, never to be seen again. Stevenson has, of course, searched for it. He told FOX 5's Doug Evans it had enough battery power to fly for miles before crashing.

The Federal Aviation Administration allows hobbyists like Stevenson to fly drones for recreational purposes. No one, however, can fly a drone in the U.S. for commercial reasons nor can anyone profit from the use of the drone. Those restrictions could change later this year.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the drone can contact Stevenson at 770-400-9124.

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(Part 2 of a series following the U.S. Supreme Courts ruling last week to let stand the lower court decision that the property of the historic Falls Church in Northern Virginia belonged to the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, and not an arch-conservative pack of defectors from that church who voted to leave it in December 2006, but subsequently occupied the property for five and a half years. For part one, click here.)

The City of Falls Church, Virginia, both is and isnt a small, sleepy residential enclave inside the Washington, D.C. Beltway, seven miles from the White House. It used to be truly country, a getaway destination that residents of the capital could ride to on weekends and relax under large shade trees. But in recent years, the press of urbanization crept in, swelling the schools and replacing tree shade with the multistory building type.

But always, since the 1730s in this region rich with early American colonial history, the center of small Falls Church has been The Falls Church. Built in 1735 as an outpost of the Anglican church in Alexandria where George Washington was a vestryman, it is a small box-like structure whose exterior has gone unchanged for going on 300 years. It has been a functioning church the entire time, named for its proximity to the Great Falls on the Potomac. With the American Revolution, its ownership remained with its Alexandria mother church as it transitioned from Anglican to Episcopalian. A small graveyard on its heavily-shaded perimeter is the final resting place of persons dating back to its founding. During the Civil War it was held at different times by both Union and Confederate forces pushing back and forth in the area, and was used as a hospital.

The grounds are modestly imposing, even as a portion of them were used for the construction in the 1990s of a large sanctuary adjacent the original building.

The church provided an ideal social and spiritual center for its surrounding community, which after World War II incorporated into an independent city so it could develop its own progressive school system, now nationally renowned for its excellence. It was the first in Virginia to integrate after the Brown Vs. Board of Education decision in 1954.

A founder of that school system was a leading member of The Falls Church since she moved to the area in 1941. Upon her passing at age 100 last year, a new school building in the City was named for her. The longtime superintendent of that school system was also a member of the church.

But the positive symbiosis between this venerable church and the community around it was sharply disrupted in the mid-1980s when it fell into the hands of new leadership that sent it in a very different direction. A young rector from North Carolina started shaping it into something unlike almost any other Episcopal church in the U.S.

It is not too simple to consider it an aspect of the Reagan revolution. Among other things, the shift happened in the context of the radical neo-conservative political thrust sweeping the nearby nations capital. New parishioners who shared the rectors arch-conservative views began flooding into the church from outside its community.

In 1991 I founded a weekly newspaper for the City of Falls Church. In almost no time it began chronicling the churchs new form of harsh interventions into the community around it. A zealous youth minister spoke at a funeral for a family life teacher at the local high school, a very generous and accepting soul enormously popular and beloved by all the students, and he used the occasion to rail against her tolerance of homosexuality.

Next, the student editorial board of the high school paper voted to accept an ad from a national pro-gay tolerance group and the church put up such a fuss that the faculty adviser to the school paper was almost fired, and was on the receiving end of ferocious hate mail for months.

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Church Defectors Acted Immorally, Part 2

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