Part of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, St. Francis had grown from a 30-member congregation to nearly 100 in Sunday attendance and debt-free status for the first time in its history.

Zimmerman and Keith Fink, pastor of St. Paul's, explored combining their disaffiliated congregations and forming a new church.

[4] Ultimately, in 2008, 80 percent of St. Francis' members followed Zimmerman in leaving the Episcopal Church, and the new congregation, called Somerset Anglican Fellowship, left its building and began meeting at a local mall.

[3] Also in 2008, St. Paul's was dismissed from the PC(USA)'s Presbytery of Redstone―while being permitted to keep its property―and joined the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

The façade includes incised brickwork forming a row of crosses along the first floor, a pattern repeated in other Somerset buildings erected after the fire.