This church, dating to shortly after the Civil War, was founded to serve recently freed African-American slaves in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. Apparently prosperous into the early 20th century, its membership fluctuated and then fell to less than a dozen active members in the early 2000s, and was on the point of closing. In summary, on this page and its relatives this wiki will have a chance to follow the rebuilding of a church as a kind of illustrative analog of the rebuilding of faith.