Abandoned Church of Serpent Handling

Take a drive into the outskirts of Chattanooga, TN into a small farming community of old called Birchwood. I grew up near this place, after it had been made into a suburban rural area, but here and there is scattered places of the past long forgotten. This abandoned church as you see on the sign is called, The Dolly Pond Church In Jesus Name, With Signs Following. It seems like kind of a long name for a small church like this, but the signs following are the bigger picture of what was practiced inside. The practices of the members of this church were serpent handlers. More accurately, Rattlesnake handlers. They believed that their faith in God and Jesus was so powerful that they would hold dangerously poisoning snakes with their bare hands as a testament that faith in God would always protect you. Everything else you see here is a mystery to me as much as it is to you. I do not know how long this church has been there for, but I do know that as you can see, there is an outhouse located in the back, now overgrown with vines and trees. The other photo is a yellow church pew cast away outside of the church, now part of the habitat. The strange cult-like people that used this church locked their secrets away inside this place, but can only be peeked at through a few windows. Inside I saw an old organ, some posters with what looked like Bible scripture painted on it, and furnishings such as chairs turned over on its sides. Why hasn't this place been torn down? What happened here to have it be abandoned abruptly to leave all of the remnants of this church locked up within those wooden walls. There is not a way inside, except if you break a window, but I don't think I would like to get caught breaking this church's window. Let the ghosts stay locked behind that door.