Christian City breaks ground for welcome center

Christian

City breaks ground for welcome center

Last weekend,

Fulton County Commissioner Bill Edwards, along with local weather icon

Guy Sharpe, attended the groundbreaking for a new chapel and welcome-administrative

center at Christian City in Union City.

Sharpe brought

a unique perspective to the ceremony. He recently moved into one of

the life lease subdivisions at the center.

"When

I attended the original groundbreaking of Christian City in the early

1960s, I had no idea of how great Christian City would become or that

I would be participating in another groundbreaking in 2001," he

said.

Robert Crutchfield,

Christian City president and CEO, explained the welcome center will

serve as a new grand entrance to the facility, as well as a museum of

historical information.

The groundbreaking

followed a year of fund-raising, with more than $1.5 million raised

for the Piecing Together our Future campaign. The new welcome center

is only the first part of a five-piece campaign that includes the relocation

of the Christian City Home for Children, the creation of a benevolent

care endowment, a debt free sinking fund and campus infrastructure improvements.

The center

is expected to open this fall.