Crystal Cathedral, Part 2

In an era of remakes, sequels and re-releases, “Titanic,” “The Muppets” and “Mission Impossible” are all making their return to the big screen. And they’re not the only ones.

This weekend, Crystal Cathedral founder Robert Schuller’s daughter, Rev. Shelia Schuller Colman, held a service for 200 people in a movie theater in Orange, Calif., according to the Los Angeles Times.

Preaching before a feature presentation isn’t something new to the Schuller family. Robert Schuller began his Southern California ministry in a rented space at a drive-in theater in 1955. The famous mega-church was built in 1980.

But in 2010, the Crystal Cathedral filed for bankruptcy after creditors sued to get paid. As part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy the well-known cathedral, famous for the Hour of Power telecast, was sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange for $57.5 million.

“We’re not about a church building. We’re about building a church,” Schuller Coleman said to the new Hope Center of Christ congregation. They gathered in Theatre 15 before a showing of another remake, “21 Jump Street,” the Times said, using an $835 donation to pay for the space.

Last week, Robert Schuller, 85, and his wife Arvella resigned from the Crystal Cathedral Ministry’s board of directors, leaving only daughter Schuller Coleman still involved in the ministry.

Although the Schullers said then that they “applaud the courage” of their daughter as “she sets out to follow her heart and calling as a minister of the Christian faith,” they aren’t planning to fill one of her red velvet seats. “We will not be moving with her to the new location nor are we willing, at this time, to commit to participating in worship at the Crystal Cathedral.”

They stepped down after negotiations over money owed to Schuller and his family broke down.

“We cannot continue to serve on the Board in what has become an adversarial and negative atmosphere,” Arvella Schuller, 81, said in a statement.