“There’s no way we’re doing that,” she remembers saying.
But Morley and then-fiancé Joshua were looking for a house just as home prices in 2021 skyrocketed. It needed to be in Rogersville, and the young family was running out of options. Then, a friend told them about a building for sale: the old Rogersville United Methodist Church building on North Main Street.
So the couple repurposed the old Methodist church into a family home.
The church was built in 1912 and expanded in 1936. It closed its doors in the summer of 2021 and was scheduled for demolition. Instead, the couple gave it another chance. They cleaned out the 8,500-square-foot structure and moved into the former fellowship hall. The sanctuary was stripped down to boards and exposed brick for a rustic event space.
“I was terrified, and we had no money,” Morley said. “But we felt called to it. Like God just put it in our lap, and we were the only people that were going to have this vision.”
Three years and about $200,000 in renovation work later, the family is looking for a new owner to carry on that vision. J.R. Hutcheson Real Estate Team has listed the building and half-acre lot for $349,500.