The Carriage Lane

Presbyterian Church, Peachtree City, has been busy

upholding its objectives since the mid-1980s.

Those are: Pursuing a vital

worship demonstrating the presence and power of God;

Pursuing the application of the word of God; Pursuing

wholeness found in relationship with Christ and His

church; Pursuing the application of the word of God; and

Pursuing the witness of His love.

At first, the early members

met in homes and were led by the Rev. Carl Wilson, who is

founder and president of World Wide Discipleship

Association, whose headquarters is in Fayette County. He

served as part-time pastor until August 1990, when the

group called its first full-time minister, the Rev. Doug

Griffith, who continues to serve in that post.

He was born in Lancaster,

Pa. and reared in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. He first

felt the pull into ministry as a sophomore in high

school, and was challenged to seek the intellectual

evidences of the Bible and its message by an educator.

He is a graduate of Furman

University, where he earned a degree in education. While

there, he was active in the campus ministry and taught

Bible study.

He next entered Covenant

Theological Seminary in St. Louis, where he earned a

master's of divinity.

Though he met his wife,

Cindy, in college, they did not marry until his second

year in seminary. They are the parents of Katie, 14, who

is a student at Landmark Christian School, Mary, 11, who

attends Crossroads Christian School, and Luke, 9, who

also attends Crossroads.

In the short term, Griffith

would like to see the church have more mission groups

overseas, as he wants to continue sharing the gospel

around the world. The church currently has missions going

in Peru, Mexico and several places in the United States.

He is excited about the

growing youth ministry; teens comprise 25 percent of the

church membership.

The church is looking

forward to a building program, and expects to get into a

new 750-seat sanctuary by December 2000.

Sunday School for all ages

begins at 9:30 a.m. and the worship service begins at

8:15 a.m. and 11 a.m.

The church is at 101

Carriage Lane, which runs off Ga. Highway 54, and sits

beside Westminster Memorial Gardens. Phone 770-631-4618.