Judge Frank Bailey was not on the bench in Bankruptcy Court in downtown Boston on this chilly Election Day morning. Instead, he was on Warren Street in Roxbury, touring the shuttered properties of the financially ailing Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Bailey and several staffers joined lawyers for both the church and its lender, OneUnited Bank, first to walk through the church’s stalled nearby building project, the Roxbury Renaissance Center. Envisioned as a gathering space for community events, wedding receptions, and music lessons, the center has been unfinished and idle since 2009, when its funding ran out.