Midcoast church sues conference over alleged ‘land grab’ for Cushing property

Midcoast church sues conference over alleged ‘land grab’ for Cushing property

An independent church in Cushing that has served the community for 170 years has gone to court to block a branch of an international religious order from taking ownership of the property. Broad Cove Church of Cushing filed a complaint Dec. 3 in the state court in Knox County to block the effort by the New England Annual Conference of United Methodist Church, Inc. to take ownership of the church. “This case concerns an attempted religious land gr…