The Carriage Lane P resbyterian

Church, Peachtree City, has come a long way since its beginning in the

mid-1980s, from meeting in homes to outgrowing its first sanctuary to

breaking ground for a new one.

Sunday, Feb. 25, the congregation

will go out front after the 11 a.m. worship service for a ground breaking

ceremony.

The new sanctuary will seat

about 750 persons and will have space for future class rooms and offices.

The $2.7 million structure will also contain a full basement that will

be used for additional classrooms and storage.

Pursuing its desire to reach

the world for Christ, this past summer the senior high youth group went

to Huancavalica, Peru, where they spent several weeks in evangelism and

teaching Vacation Bible School. Summer 2001 will find them back in Peru

and another group will be going to Neuweld, Germany.

The past two summers, the junior

high youth have traveled to Cherokee, N. C. to minister to the Cherokee

Indians. This past summer they spent a full week teaching a Vacation Bible

School and making repairs to several of their facilities.

In late summer, a group of

five adults returned again to the Czech Republic and spent two weeks teaching

God's word and giving encouragement to a small Reformed church in Zlin.

On a local level, the church

has a MOPS program, or Mothers Of Pre-School children. It is a ministry

open to the local community on each second and fourth Thursday morning.

On first and third Thursdays a Bible study is offered.

"Children Desiring God"

is conducted each Wednesday evening. Bible lessons, fellowship and a light

snack are available for preschool through sixth grade.

Doug Griffith has served as

the pastor at Carriage Lane since 1990. He continues the objectives of

the church; 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.

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