The Sharpsburg Baptist Church membership is heading in several directions at one time.

Behind its current location on Ga. Highway 34, it is building an 11,000-sq. ft. building that will contain a new sanctuary, fellowship hall and Sunday School rooms. The new sanctuary will seat 299. The existing facility will remain.

Founded in 1837, just 12 years after the creation of Coweta County, the current church building sits just a few hundred feet across the road from the first building.

The church owns several acres around this first site and, due to the fact that its fall festival now requires more and more space, the membership and one of the groups using its facility, the Sharpsburg Sharpshooters Sons of Confederate Veterans, spent several hours last Saturday cleaning out years of fallen brush and kudzu growth

The church has always been active in the community and will soon sponsor a gospel singing at the Town Recreation Center, with a number of groups participating. Profits will be give to the church building fund.

Working just as hard as everyone else was the Rev. Dr. Watson Mills, pastor for the past 15 years.

He is a professor at Mercer University during the week. He is author of a number of books, one of those being a Bible dictionary. It was so well received, he was given an award by the United Nations in 1990 for the best research volume published that year.

Said Sharpsburg mayor and church member Alvin Arrowood, “It's still the same old street where old friends meet.”

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