If you like to travel, participate

on mission teams, help the down-and-out with repairs to their homes, if

your children enjoy music, drama, summer field trips or helping to teach

Bible study to other children, Liberty Baptist is the church for you.

The congregation first began

in 1953 on West Fayette Road in College Park and relocated to Fayette

County in 1989. While the facility has been in one location since then,

the 365 active members stay busy traveling far and wide as well as being

involved in programs within the community.

The church supports two missions

in Ukraine, both in Rutzin and Tarusha. A group from the church tries

to visit them once a year.

In July, six adults will be

visiting Mandeville, Jamaica for a week, teaching Vacation Bible School.

Not to be outdone, the senior

pastor, the Rev. Alan Parker, will be heading to Guwhiti, India to spend

several weeks teaching 50 ministers in a pastor's school.

The children and youth are

also going in a dozen directions.

Seventeen youths and adults

will be on a San Diego inter-city mission where they will help add onto

a facility and will also visit Tiajuana, Mexico to paint and repair old

homes.

The youth ministry will attend

a youth conference in Mobile, Ala. and also participate in mission work.

A dozen youths and three adults will participate.

First through sixth graders

will participate in a camp at Norman Park, Ga. the end of July. Arts and

crafts, worship services and meeting new children will be the order of

the day.

Minister of music Robby Smith

will conduct his annual "Godz Kidz" from July 9 -13. Open to

children in the community from second through sixth graders, the program

keeps them busy from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in field trips and learning music

and drama, for a $20 fee.

Sunday evening they will present

the program they learned during the week to the church congregation.

In the past year, the entire

church facility has been remodeled inside and out. The fellowship hall

will now seat at least 200 at a dinner.

"The Lord has blessed

us with consistent growth," said Parker. "We rejoice in our

outreach to our community and we want to not only take the church out

into the area around it, but also believe in individual ministries with

the church. God gave us each a different kind of talent, and we encourage

all our members to feel free to practice that talent, whether within these

walls or without."

The entire membership joins

in the church mission statement: Introducing people to the love of our

Lord and to the life of Liberty.

Liberty Baptist is at 1077

Ga. Highway 314 and can be reached at 770-461-5644.

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