The new, 35,500-square-foot building will be on New

Hope's 64 acres across Ga. Highway 74 from Starr's Mill, and will

seat 1,000 for worship. The style is neither traditional nor

contemporary, but looks more like a conference center, and is designed to

fit well with the surrounding community. Master plans are for

the initial building to be converted to educational and banquet

space once a permanent sanctuary is completed. There are also

plans for ball fields, a pond and an amphitheater at the site. The

current church building will be used for youth activities.

New Hope Baptist Church, with a current membership of

over 5,000, expanded to its south campus location in September of

1997. The Starr's Mill congregation has averaged a 47 percent growth,

and now 350-400 meet in the new Starr's Mill High School

auditorium. Projected attendance at the south campus by the end of

1999 will be 550.

For information about either New Hope location, call

the church at 770-461-4337.

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