Sallie Metzger of Peachtree City, is the new leader of The Women of Christ the King at The Cathedral of Christ the King in Sharpsburg. Metzger is also involved with The Order of St. Luke healing ministry and is a prayer minister on Sunday mornings. She says she feels a very strong call to Jesus’ healing ministry and is especially pulled to inner healing. Sallie is also involved, along with Deacon Tony McGee, in Monday night Prayer and Praise at Christ the King.
Metzger says her dream growing up was to become a nun, completely dedicated to God and living in the convent with the beautiful gardens near where she grew up. Her dream changed when she came to know Richard Metzger when she was 15, though they didn’t begin dating until she was 21. She says she fell for him fast and has never looked back.
The Metzgers, Sallie, husband Richard, and sons Thomas, age 14; Georgie, age 7; and Charlie, age 6, moved to Peachtree City from Long Island in 2006. They had come to Georgia for Memorial Day weekend, bought their house after only one day of looking and the following day attended a Memorial Day observation in Peachtree City where Bishop David Epps spoke. They were excited to learn of and join Eagle’s Nest Christian Home Educators Association. On Long Island they were one of only two home school families. The Metzgers have home schooled since Thomas was seven years old. These days Sallie home schools their three boys and helps her husband run Brooks Vacuum Shop in downtown Newnan.
Women’s Ministry is a new direction to Sallie, but she says she trusts God’s call, His grace and His guidance. She says He has already blessed her with some ideas, a few helpers, a lot of passion and love for Him and a heart for her church family.
Sallie says she has always been “a high-energy, super-organized person. She also is a breast cancer survivor.
“Since I’ve come through all the treatments for breast cancer and am one year into my five-year medicine, my energy level isn’t what it was and I often don’t feel as good as maybe I could,” she says. “But I will trust my church family to extend grace and to undergird me with prayer. I am so excited to be your servant and His.”
Plans are underway for a Martha and Mary’s Ministry, monthly Women’s meetings, Bible studies, a book club, Proverbs 31 Ministry, social activities and other fellowship opportunities.
The Cathedral of Christ the King is on Ga. Highway 34 just west of Peachtree City.
