In the 1960s, three Maryland Methodist churches, two with all-white congregations and the other all-Black, were confronted with dwindling membership and faced the prospect of going under. During that time, the ministers and church members in their town, Quince Orchard, considered uniting. However, resistance to integrating ran high, and the congregations redoubled their separate fundraising efforts with weekly church suppers, a progressively Sisyphean endeavor. Then, on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated. That event impacted communities across this country and catapulted Quince Orchard to action.