Help us plant churches in Atlanta.
The Parish Church is a new church being planted in Marietta, Georgia, with a vision that reaches beyond one congregation.
We believe God ordinarily works through local churches to form disciples and bear witness to Christ in the world. Our hope is to establish a church deeply rooted in the gospel and deeply rooted in its neighborhood—a people who worship together, share a common life, love their neighbors, and make Jesus Christ known.
And, by God’s grace, we hope this is only the beginning.
Our prayer is to see healthy neighborhood churches planted throughout Atlanta: churches that know the places they serve, form faithful disciples through the ordinary means of grace, and send witnesses to their neighbors and the nations.
We’d like you to prayerfully consider making a meaningful investment toward planting churches in Atlanta.
Why Atlanta?
Atlanta is growing rapidly. People are arriving from across the country and around the world, bringing remarkable cultural, economic, and religious diversity with them.
But Atlanta is more than a growing city. It is a city of neighborhoods.
Our first parish in Marietta includes nearly 7,000 households and approximately 18,000 people. These aren’t simply numbers on a demographic report. They are our neighbors—the people we see at school, at the grocery store, on the ball field, across the fence, and around town.
We want to establish a church among them.
Rather than attempting to reach an entire city from a single location, we hope to plant churches rooted in particular places: congregations that know their communities, practice hospitality, proclaim Christ, form disciples, and faithfully love the people God has placed around them.
As disciples mature and leaders emerge, we hope to send them out to establish new parishes throughout Atlanta.
Let the neighborhoods be glad.
How You Can Partner
Church planting has never been the work of one family or one congregation. From the beginning, the mission of the church has advanced through Christians praying, giving, going, sending, encouraging, and opening doors for one another.
There are four meaningful ways you can become part of what God is doing through The Parish Church.
PRAY
More than anything, we ask you to pray.
Pray that God would build His church. Pray that He would form us into a faithful people who love one another and our neighbors well. Pray for open hearts to receive the gospel. Pray for families and leaders to join us. Pray that God would provide everything necessary for the work ahead.
And pray beyond our first church—that God would raise up leaders and congregations throughout Atlanta for generations to come.
We are confident that lasting fruit will not come through our plans or efforts alone, but through the gracious work of God.
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GIVE
Church planting requires generosity.
We are seeking individuals, families, churches, and organizations willing to invest financially in establishing The Parish Church and laying the groundwork for future churches throughout Atlanta.
Financial partners help provide pastoral leadership, gathering space, ministry resources, hospitality, community engagement, and the practical infrastructure necessary to establish a healthy local church.
Some partners will give monthly. Others will make a special gift. Churches may choose to support us from their missions budget or include us among their regular church-planting partners.
Every gift represents something larger than a budget. It helps establish a church in a neighborhood where we pray the gospel will be proclaimed and ordinary Christian faithfulness will take root for years to come.
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JOIN
Perhaps your partnership isn’t from a distance.
We are gathering people who want to help establish a faithful church in Marietta—people willing to worship, pray, serve, practice hospitality, love their neighbors, and build a common life together.
You don’t need to be a ministry professional. You don’t need church-planting experience. We need Christians willing to bring the ordinary gifts God has given them and use those gifts for the good of His church and their neighbors.
If you live in the Atlanta area—or would consider moving here—we would love to begin a conversation.
Come help us plant a church. Come build a life among neighbors. Come belong.
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CONNECT
You may know someone we should know.
One of the most valuable things a friend can do for a new church is simply open a door.
Perhaps you know a pastor or church looking for a church-planting partnership. Maybe you know someone in Atlanta searching for a church. You may know a business leader, foundation, ministry, or individual with a heart for church planting and gospel work in growing cities.
Introduce us.
A simple email, text, or phone call can begin a friendship that we could never have initiated on our own.
Help us widen the circle of people praying for, participating in, and investing in the work.
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What Your Partnership Makes Possible
Our goal is not simply to launch a Sunday service.
We want to establish a healthy local church with the strength to remain, mature, send, and multiply.
During our first three years, outside financial partnership will help us establish pastoral ministry, develop sustainable worship and ministry rhythms, practice generous hospitality, engage our community, and prepare for future church planting.
Our goal is to become increasingly supported by the congregation God establishes here while continuing to invest in the mission beyond ourselves.
We are not asking partners simply to fund a project.
We are inviting you to help plant a church.
A church where children may grow up knowing Christ.
A church where neighbors become friends and friends become family.
A church where the lonely find a table, sinners hear the gospel, believers are formed into maturity, and ordinary Christians learn to live all of life before the face of God.
And, we pray, a church that will one day send people out to do it all again in another neighborhood.
Let’s Talk
If you would like to learn more about The Parish Church, receive our prospectus, talk about becoming a financial partner, or simply hear more about what we believe God is calling us to do, we’d love to hear from you.
Adam Bishop
Church Planter
adam@theparishchurch.org
404.431.1237
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We glorify God by planting churches that form disciples of Jesus who go to their neighbors and the nations until only love remains.