Christ the King Church, which was founded in 1996 in a living room in Sharpsburg, GA will celebrate its 26th anniversary on Sunday, September 11 at 10:00 a.m.
For six years the congregation met in the chapel of Carmichael-Hemperly Funeral Home in Peachtree City. During that time, the church acquired 11.5 acres on Highway 34 and entered its new sanctuary in 2002. A few years later a Parish Life Center was added. In 2008, the church was designated a Cathedral after the pastor, David Epps, was elected a bishop after Bishop John Holloway of Thomaston suffered a debilitating stroke. The church is in the Diocese of the Mid-South, which encompasses
Georgia and Tennessee, and is part of the Charismatic Episcopal Church of North America.
The guest minister for the anniversary will be Bishop Rob Northwood of Bel Air, Maryland. Bishop Rob Northwood has been married to his wife Sarah for 29 years. They have six grown children, and four young grandchildren. Raised in Maryland, Bishop Northwood has always held a high view of the sacraments and the scriptures. He truly believes that the Holy Spirit must have preeminence in all church life.
Bishop Northwood was ordained a deacon and then a priest with a prophetic word that he was to plant a church in one of two towns. He helped plant a church in Towson Maryland, the first of the two towns, and then to plant another in Bel Air, Maryland, starting in the basement of his own home, now the Cathedral Church of Reconciliation. That church grew and grew again, now located in downtown Bel Air, and currently developing a new Cathedral facility on 40+ acres of farmland just North of Bel Air in Forest Hill, Md.
Consecrated Bishop of the Mid-Atlantic Diocese in March of 2019 he has worked to lead the diocese through the pandemic and to look outward toward a white harvest field.
