The Liberty Baptist Church spells out its name using the scripture and also lets you know just what the church delivers: “Liberating preaching, Inspiring worship, building up the Body, encouraging atmosphere, renewing our minds, touching lives and yielding our lives.”

The congregation began in 1953 and was on West Fayette Road in College Park. In 1989 it relocated to Fayette County on Ga. Highway 314, just a short distance after passing Ga. Highway 279.

The 365 active members are busy with a number of local programs as well as foreign ministries. They support a mission in Rutzin, Ukraine and some members will be leaving for that spot in May 2000. When this mission is completed, they will look for another needy place to focus on.

Locally, a Cambodian mission meets at Liberty Baptist, and when it has established a place of its own, Liberty will start another local mission.

It gathers items needed for its prison ministry as well as providing food pantry needs, ministries to assist its pre-schoolers, youth students and adults, as well as provide a counseling ministry. It is available to non-members as well as members.

The church is currently remodeling its entire fellowship hall and looks forward to breaking ground next near for a new multi-purpose building that will also add 20 Sunday School rooms. With a campus of 14 acres, there is plenty of time and space to eventually add a new sanctuary.

The senior pastor is the Rev. D. Alan Parker, who came on board in June 1998.

He was born in Atlanta and reared in Conley and graduated from Clayton Christian School. He worked, married, and in 1987 realized that he was saved. He served as a youth minister while attending Clayton College & State University, and is currently completing his studies through Luther Rice Seminary. He is married to Susan Mackey and they are the parents of Joshua David, 9, and Lara Grace, 4.

“We rejoice in our outreach to the community,” he said, “and we want to not only take the church out into the area around it, but also believe in individual ministries within the church. God gave us each a different kind of talent, and we encourage all our members to feel free to practice that talent, either within these walls or without.”

The church is at 1077 Ga. Highway 314 and can be reached at 770-461-5644. Its web page is www.libertybaptistfayette.org and the e-mail address of the Rev. Parker is alan@iol10.com.

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