RESURRECTION
AFTER A DEVASTATING FLOOD, A COMMUNITY UNITES TO REBUILD SCOTLAND AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH BY MIKE UNGER | PHOTOS BY SKIP BROWN
Church services had ended hours earlier on this warm Sunday in February, but a distinctly spiritual feel drifted throughout the Potomac townhouse where dozens of people were gathered. Up for discussion: resurrecting the nearly 100-yearold Scotland African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Zion Church, which had been devastated by a 2019 flood. Regardless of their race or religion, where they worshipped or lived, what they did for a living or how much their job paid them, this disparate group of Montgomery County residents seemed to share a
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