Regrets for a brief hiatus over the Christmas period. The reasons are threefold: a) not wishing to favour any church during that crucial period, b) my own business during the holiday season, and c) severely lacking weather, as I clearly choose to take my photos in the morning sun and that’s been decidedly sparse!
Anyway, I present this entry as “Church of the Master,” because that is how this location appears on Google Maps. You’ll see from the sign it’s locally described as Destiny & Dominion Ministries. It appears to be an attempt to integrate a place of worship within a larger development, typically housing. I have seen other such examples in Scarborough and will share more in future.
I like the playground, as again there’s an emphasis on family and the facility overall speaks to learning. The building itself looks reasonable, sturdy, and quite modern. Slightly disconcerting that it’s across the street from a liquor store.
Most disconcerting, though, is the notice of intent to demolish and replace. I see this posted by many places of worship (and many places, period). It will be more condos that go up, but I am not convinced by the popular tales of lack of housing supply. My belief is that such developments are primarily driven by greed more than need; greed from investors and banks who will only “risk” money on housing they’re betting is the only way to make them more money; greed from governments that allow the rampant creation of currency to create an illusion of prosperity while everyone’s standard of living falls. This is not unique to Scarborough, of course, but its taste is perhaps bitterer here where there is much evidence of the opposite of prosperity.
As far as I can tell, for now, belief and worship continue: https://dd.church/
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