Parish Staff Rector The Reverend Robert D. Fain Join my blog. Assistant Rector The Reverend Dr. J. Andrew Menger Join my blog. (coming soon) Assistant Rector/Youth Ministries The Reverend Loren V. Hague Join my blog. Assisting Priest The Reverend L. Curtis Johnson Assisting Priest The Reverend Virginia B. Inman Join my blog. (coming soon) Parish Administrator Pat Johnson Membership Ministries Ginger Flanagin Organist/Choirmaster James E. Nord Children’s Ministries Laura S. Marshall Parish Nurse Belinda U. Peebles Life Ministries Courtnay Capps Community & World Ministries Kathleen Barnhart Parish Publications Susan C. Story Financial Secretary Tina I. Smith Sexton Nathaniel Simmons Sr. The Parsonage Books & Gifts Camilla E. Davis EDS Headmaster Ned R. Murray EDS Chaplain The Reverend Dr. Frank D. Sawyer

Whether you are a member or a visitor to our site, we hope you will find these pages helpful and informative. They present the various dimensions of worship, life, learning, service and community that are available in this place.  Most of all, we hope that they are a friendly invitation to a life with, by, in, and even for Jesus Christ and participation in a community of God’s faithful people.  God’s peace and blessings to you!

Discover a place of purpose . . .

• to glorify and enjoy the Living God

• where relationship with Jesus Christ can bring joy to your life

• grounded in a solid tradition of faith, devotion, and service that can provide a foundation for your life

• of people genuinely interested in you, who care for one another and others, who are united to God and each other in a community not unlike that of a large extended family

• striving to make a difference in this community and in the world.

Our Beliefs
We believe first and foremost that we can know God, our creator, through a relationship with his son, Jesus Christ.  And, along with Anglicans around the globe, we at the Church of the Good Shepherd hold the traditional faith of Christians through the ages. 

The clearest statements of what we believe is to be found in The Apostle’s Creed and The Nicene Creed.

These two-thousand year old creeds (or short statements of faith) are held to be true by billions of people around the world today.

As a church, we emphasize the mystery of encountering God in worship. We believe all people are called to be ministers and to serve God, his Church and the community in which they live.  You can find a fuller statement of what we believe here online in the Outline of Faith from the Book of Common Prayer.

History
The Church of the Good Shepherd, chartered in 1869, is an Episcopal parish in the Diocese of Georgia.  The church, built in 1889, was destroyed by fire in 1896.

Rebuilt within the walls of the original building, its stained glass windows having been rescued from the fire and the bell recast, the present church was reconsecrated in 1898.

Today we strive to offer a ministry that makes a difference in the lives of people and a difference in the community, all in the name of Jesus Christ.