The Episcopal Church of the Nativity, Fayetteville, is looking forward to quite a remarkable year.

In just nine weeks it will go into its very first church building of its very own on Antioch Road. For the past nine years the congregation has been in several rented spaces and the 150 congregants look forward to spreading out over seven acres.

The new sanctuary will seat about 250 people with a capital outlay of $436,000.

They will be next door neighbors to St. Gabriel Catholic Church and the two churches are hoping to share Palm Sunday services April 14 in a joint outdoor service.

The Rev. Bob Hudak, vicar, said there are several new programs he hopes to begin at the site: a flower garden and a vegetable garden, so that members could share with others that which God gave them; and a memorial garden, where people could sit and meditate, especially at those times when the church would be closed.

“It would be an outdoor extension of the sanctuary,” said Hudak. “We would like to have an area nearby in which ashes of the cremated could be buried and families could feel assured the deceased was resting in a sacred place.”

The church has been involved in a number of local and national missions for a number of years.

The Samaritans are one of its favorites in Fayette County. It participates in the Southern Crescent Habitat for Humanity by providing lunches at the construction sites, it participated in the “Souper Bowl of Caring” and will be using those funds in local charitable endeavors, in April, the church will participate in its third Walk for Hunger, and at Christmas members sent as much support as they could to the flood victims in Venezuela and North Carolina.

The church is currently at 1381-C Ga. Highway 85 north and can be reached at 770-460-6390.

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