By the late fifties, however, the church had increased its African American membership before it became politically acceptable to most congregations in the late sixties. The membership became increasingly cosmopolitan in the eighties and nineties, drawing on the influx of personnel at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and other professional staffs in the region. Its ethnic makeup became another component in the diversity, which is now the hallmark of Christ Church. As the physical church has been periodically renovated and refurbished, programs changed, and as rectors have come and gone, a few parish families have endured. The Adairs, the Thomases and the Taylors have had continuous membership at Christ Church for three quarters of the twentieth century.
Parish register, vestry minutes, parochial reports, old scrapbooks, news clippings and oral history.
Christ Church is deeply indebted to Ruth Hazel, a long time member of the parish, for her outstanding project of research and preparation of this interesting, thorough, and timely history which was written especially for the occasion of the 140 th anniversary of Christ Episcopal Church, Xenia.