After 58 years in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pastor J. David Nelson is retiring at the end of the month. “There was no set time to quit,” he said. “I just knew it was time.” Nelson, who is a ...

Gabriel Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church can trace its roots back to 1866. It was built by freed Black families in Cuffeytown, the oldest self-sustaining African American community in Virginia.