On April 4, 2004, a new chapter began in the history of the Yasenkas parish. On this day, a Divine Liturgy was held in Yasenkas for the first time in a long while. The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, belonging to the Shchigrov and Manturov dioceses of the Kursk Metropolis, is located in the village of Yasenkas in the Gorshechensky district of the Kursk region.

With the revival of liturgical life in Yasenkas, the church community was given the building of a former bathhouse for conducting services. This bathhouse was built on the site of the church that was destroyed in the 1930s. In the 19th century, the Yasenkas church was recognized as outstanding due to its architectural beauty immediately after its construction.

The church in Yasenkas was founded in the mid-18th century as a wooden church in honor of Saint Martyr Paraskeva Friday. By the early 19th century, the wooden building could not accommodate all the parishioners, so in 1828, the construction of a new stone church began. Seventeen years later, in 1845, the consecration of the stone two-altar church took place. The main altar was consecrated in honor of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and the southern chapel, in honor of the martyr Paraskeva. In 1857, another chapel (the northern one) was consecrated in honor of the Beheading of John the Baptist.

Archbishop Dmitry (Sambikin) wrote in documents from the mid-1880s: "The church in Yasenkas, of the Nizhnedvitsky district, is a stone building with a bell tower, remarkable for its architectural beauty, built in 1845 with chapels of St. Paraskeva Friday and the Beheading of John the Baptist. The previously existing church was dedicated to St. Great Martyr Paraskeva-Friday. One parish has 66 desyatins of land. There are 1,380 souls in the parish; villages: Somovka and Pyatnitskaya."

The parishioners especially venerated one relic that distinguished the Yasenkas church from others. It was a wooden statue of the Savior in a crown of thorns. Its fate after the revolution is unknown. The list of lost relics also includes three Gospels, the oldest of which was printed in 1697 during the reign of Peter the Great, and the other two in the second half of the 18th century.

In 1922, the church in Yasenkas was robbed under the pretext of confiscating church valuables to aid the starving in the Volga region. On July 28, 1939, the church was blown up, and its remains were finally destroyed in the 1950s, according to local residents.