Rocky Springs United Methodist Church will be filled with the sounds of gospel music next Saturday.

Friends of Rocky Springs Church will host its first Old Time Gospel Singing from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 8 at the de-consecrated church off the Natchez Trace. Admission is free.

“We wanted to get everybody together and sing,” said the Rev. Libby Piazza, who was pastor of Rocky Springs before it was de-consecrated last year. “There’s not any kind of singing that speaks to the spirit like the old-time gospel hymns.”

The church was built about 1837 in Rocky Springs, a town that faded away around the 1930s. The Friends of Rocky Springs Church has taken on preservation of the church and cemetery.