"My neighbours think it's strange and definitely wouldn't want to be the person across the street from it," she said.

"The signage on the building was old and decrepit, and the signage was rotting, so we decided we needed to do something new, a new way of depicting it as a church," said [Bruno Deleau]. "As opposed to just taking off the wooden cross, we decided we wanted to have a mural.

"Jesus is looking down to Earth, looking down to the young lady on the back of the building, and she's looking up at him... it's depicting a love of Jesus for his people, the people of the church, the people of Transcona."