Aug 1, 2011 / 14:21 pm
Despite the Diocese of Orange recently making a $50 million bid for the bankrupt Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, church board members announced on July 31 that the building is no longer for sale.
“The board feels its great responsibility toward all of our vendors and other creditors, to pay them 100 percent of what is owed as soon as possible,” senior pastor Sheila Schuller Coleman said from the pulpit Sunday.
Coleman also cited a “responsibility” to local church members as well as viewers of the televised “Hour of Power” to keep the ministry's headquarters “intact.”
The news comes after the Diocese of Orange announced in early July that it was considering buying the Crystal Cathedral as an option to meet the needs of the 1.2 million Catholics in Orange County, the 11th largest diocese in the nation.