FALLBROOK: Church battle leaves congregation in limbo

St. John's Anglican, formerly Episcopal, still planted at Iowa Street location under dispute
By TOM PFINGSTEN - Staff Writer
Monday, November 3, 2008

FALLBROOK ---- A small Fallbrook church is waiting to see what will come of a court battle with the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego after an unfavorable appeal court ruling, in a property rights dispute that will determine who gets to use the church building.

Several of the 100 to 125 people who attend what is now St. John's Anglican Church said last week that they intend to meet every Sunday at their Iowa Street sanctuary, as they always have, until someone says otherwise.

"We would be kind of foolish to not do some 'What if'-type of things," said Rick Crossley, who has attended the church for 10 years and served as a spokesman since the congregation voted to leave the Episcopal church in 2006. "We're not going out looking at leases, though." the rest