The story unfolds of a determined and God-fearing people who in November 1886, with limited resources, organized Sidney Park Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. Having only faith that God would provide a building where they could come together and worship their built this church. And so, they became witnesses of what God can do through hope and faith. The mandate of the early church to remain in the world, but not of the world, was the means for involvement of Sidney Park Christian Methodist Church in the affairs of the times.