One of the youngest of the

110 churches in Fayette County, the Southern Crescent

Church of Christ is just three years old.

In 1996, there were 75

people who met in a day care center, and established the

fact they wanted to reach out to those in the Southern

Crescent area who felt lost and without a church home.

After meeting for over a year, they began to meet in the

Flat Rock Middle School on Jenkins Road. There are

currently 200 members.

Owning 22 acres on Dogwood

Trail, they hope to break ground for their very own

building by the end of the year.

Its new pastor is Carter

Schultz, who arrived two months ago. He is a native of

Glenwood Springs, Colorado. After graduating from high

school there, he attended Abilene Christian University in

Texas, where he majored in Accounting.

During the next four years

as a C.P.A., he felt as though his life's work may lay in

another field and one thing after another led him in the

direction of the ministry.

He applied to the graduate

school at his alma mater and graduated with a Masters in

Divinity this past May.

While at college the first

time, he met his wife, Paige, who has a degree in

Elementary Education. They are the parents of a daughter,

Abigail, who is 18 months old.

"Our church is a

church of worship," said the Rev. Schultz, "and

we want people to feel freedom in that worship. We truly

believe in our Mission Statement, `reaching out to touch

lives with the good news of Jesus Christ throughout

Atlanta's southern crescent ... one heart at a

time.'"

The Flat Rock Middle School

is at 325 Jenkins Road in Tyrone. Sunday morning Bible

Study is at 9 a.m. and Worship Service is at 10 a.m. On

Wednesday, Friday and Sunday evenings, small group

worship is held at various homes.

The pastor can be reached

at 770-632-1067.