Uncertain Future at Roundy Memorial Baptist Church

has a long history on Hampton Avenue in Whitefish Bay, but its future is less certain.

The church building at 1250 E. Hampton Road has been listed with a real estate agent since April. Sara Miller, the moderator of the congregation, said the church is selling the building because the congregation is not large enough to support the upkeep of the building.

Miller said the future of the congregation is uncertain. In a church newsletter available online, Rev. Jo Ellen Witt said the future is not a positive image.

"The one thing I can tell you is that most of us have arrived at another stage, having moved from a state of denial toward the reality of what that sale will mean to us individually and as a congregation," she wrote.

The church was originally built in 1937, and the sanctuary portion of the church was completed in 1951, Miller said.