Their tiny church is on the cover of JD Vance's new book. They don't know him. [View all]

The modest church on the cover of Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir unpacking his Catholic faith has a tiny but loyal congregation.

What it doesn’t have, members said: any connection to Vance or Catholicism
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There are a couple dozen regulars at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in rural southwestern Virginia, according to one, 78-year-old Marshall Funk, who attended his first service there in his mother’s womb. As they gathered Thursday evening for a potluck at the brick building with a white steeple — a classic Methodist style — Funk heard not a peep about politics. As far as he knew, nobody was aware that the White House’s second-in-command had broadcast an image of what Funk called his “second home.”

Vance, to his knowledge, had never visited.

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