Christopher Holt works on sketching a portrait of Robert Stafford at the Haywood Street Congregation, Dec. 17, 2018. Holt is the artist creating a fresco which will appear in the sanctuary depicting Asheville as well as about 30 of the faces of marginalized people served by the church who suffer from mental illness, addiction and homelessness. After the Freedom from Religion Foundation challenged the $72,000 gift from the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, the congregation decided to move ahead with the fresco project on their own with sufficient donated funds to begin the work.
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