Celebrating Our Churches

Historic Fincastle, Inc. Celebrates Fincastle’s Churches

Historic Fincastle, Inc. (HFI) is pleased to announce a series of events throughout this summer that will celebrate Fincastle’s historic churches.  Each event will present a lecture on the history of the church, a live music celebration and church fellowship.

The series’ first event will be at the First Baptist Church of Fincastle on the Blue Ridge Turnpike.  The event, to be held on Saturday, April 13 at 3 PM, will feature a historical discussion about the rich history of the church and feature music by the a cappella gospel music by the Glorylanders. A fellowship will follow the presentation and music.

HFI’s May event will be held at the Fincastle Presbyterian Church and will feature a discussion by a church historian as well as music by Hannah Cox from the RSO. A fellowship will follow the program.   The exact date is still under development, but the event will be held in late May. 

The Fincastle United Methodist Church will present HFI’s June offering featuring historian Angela Coon and music by the Church’s musical group.  Again, a fellowship will follow the presentation.  The June date is to be determined.

The September event in the series will be held on September 28, in conjunction with HFI’s Fincastle Fall Festival.  St. Mark’s Episcopal Church will present a historical discussion, music by the Botetourt Music Academy and a fellowship.  The time is to be determined.

Please check the website of visit HFI on Facebook at facebook.com/historicfincastleinc for additional information and updates.

A Thank you to the First Baptist Church

Thank you so much for hosting the first Historic Fincastle, Inc program Celebrating Fincastle’s Historic Churches – 2024.  Your rich history from 1831 when the church began with three members and no church building was shared with all. After 1866, the “Fincastle African Church” was able to purchase a plot of land and erect the first building.  The basement of the church was first used as a public school for the Negroes for a thirty-year period. On April 13, 2024, it was the sight of a delicious and friendly fellowship time after a rousing program of spiritual music presented by The Glorylanders of New River Valley. They are an A Capella group that has been singing together for over 30 years. The approximately 60 of us in attendance were treated to about 40 minutes of heartfelt music.  Toes were tapping and hands were clapping all over the sanctuary.  It was truly a blessing.  A special thank you to Deacon Chester and Minister Dolly Adams for helping to organize and lead the program.

Thank you.

Patsy Dickerson, President of Historic Fincastle, Inc.

Additional Events To Honor Fincastle’s Churches

Historic Fincastle is blessed to have beautiful historic churches that we are celebrating throughout 2024.  The next program will be at The Fincastle Presbyterian Church on Thursday evening May 30 at 6:30 pm.  The program will begin with gathering music provided by Lori Turner, music director followed by a brief history of Fincastle Presbyterian Church.  Hannah Cox, an elder scholar presenter from the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra will present a program on the history of music.  The program will cover the history of music from “field songs” to “gospel” to “the blues” to “Motown” to “Grunge”.  A fellowship time will follow the presentation.

The third program will be held on Sunday, Jun 30 at 3 pm at the Fincastle United Methodist Church.  The format will be the same:  a welcome, a history and a musical performance by the talented musicians from FUMC. 

The fourth program will be held on Saturday, September 28 at 2 pm during the Historic Fincastle Festival at St. Mark’s Church.  After a welcome and history of the church, the choir of the Botetourt Academy of Music will perform.

Historic Fincastle, Inc. hopes that everyone will come support our talented musicians and historic churches through this program.  There is no charge, but a love offering will be collected during each program for the performers.