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The Newsletter contains info about coming events, charitable activities, prayer requests, and more! ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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Join us for Consecration Sunday, as well as Ponies and Pumpkins on the Playground!
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Dear Peachtree Family, This Sunday, October 25, is Consecration Sunday, an important moment in our stewardship campaign as we look toward the year ahead at Peachtree Christian Church. During worship, we will have the opportunity to bring our pledge cards forward and offer them as an act of prayer, gratitude, and commitment to the ministry we share together. Our stewardship is about much more than balancing a budget. It is about investing in the mission God has given us: to seek and share the heart of Christ in the heart of the city. Every pledge helps us continue to be a community where there is Belonging Before Believing, where we practice Humble Theology, where we move From Table to Service, and where we pursue Gospel Transformation in our lives and in our city. As we look toward the future, our campaign is an opportunity to consider how we want to be rooted and renewed together. Our strategic priorities call us to deepen discipleship, strengthen worship and membership, expand our local service impact, and increase our influence in the wider church. Your generosity makes those priorities possible. It allows us not simply to maintain what we have received, but to faithfully imagine what God might do through Peachtree in the years ahead. So when you bring your pledge card forward on Sunday, I invite you to see it not simply as a financial commitment, but as an offering of yourself and your hopes for this church. We are making a commitment to one another and to the work God has entrusted to us in the heart of Atlanta. Rooted: An Evening of Worship Last Sunday night gave us a beautiful glimpse of that future. About 115 people gathered for Rooted: An Evening of Worship, and most of those who came were not PCC members. They were visitors, seekers, college students, people looking for a different way to worship, and people who simply wanted to encounter God in a welcoming community. That is exactly the kind of ministry our mission calls us toward. Rooted was an example of Belonging Before Believing—creating space for people to come as they are, to encounter Christ, and to discover a community where they can belong. It was also a wonderful expression of our strategic priorities around worship and membership and our desire to reach beyond our existing congregation and grow in faithful, meaningful ways. Thank you to everyone who came—not simply to attend, but to welcome, connect, listen, serve, and help our guests feel at home. Thank you to those who volunteered, those who helped make the evening possible, and those who intentionally sought out people they did not know. That hospitality matters. It is one of the ways we become the church we say we are. There is something exciting happening at Peachtree. We are rooted in the deep traditions and faithful witness of this congregation, and we are being renewed for the work God is calling us to do next. Jarrod
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Sunday | October 25 All the law and the prophets hang on two commandments. Stewardship, finally, is the careful tending of love: God's, neighbor's, our own. Closing our stewardship series with the great commandment. Love is the deepest economy of the kingdom. |
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POSTPONEDThe concert with soprano Olivia Ivey, originally scheduled for October 25, has been postponed. We look forward to welcoming her back early in the new year. A new date will be announced as soon as it is set. |
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Wednesdays | Oct 7 - Nov 18 | 7-8:30pm | Online
You are invited to join a seven-week workshop, reading and discussing small and delightful examples of writing in a spiritual vein while using them as models for your own spiritual reflections. For those of you who signed up for Spiritual Writing I, you’ll find new forms of writing to explore. If you didn’t take the first course, never fear! Nothing in the new class requires previous knowledge or experience. Your commitment during the sessions is your decision. You may work alongside the material (getting the most out of the sessions) or just join us and listen. You will be welcome and your choice respected. Though our time together will be short, you’ll leave with new awareness, ideas for writing as a part of your own spiritual journey, and resources for your future spiritual reading. I’m confident that you will find joy in hearing what your fellow writers think, and they will be delighted by your writing journey as well. The Psalmist says, “My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe” (45:1, ESV). Writing can be a tearful or joyful experience, life-changing even, and it can serve as a way to meditate, connecting to the Divine Master Writer we serve—Our King!
October 28—Meditations on a Word
Selection of a word, meaningful to you, is a wonderful way to “go deep” into thinking about what matters to you. A scaffolded process will guide you into writing in this meditative form.
November 4—Writing the Parable I
Parables are an ancient way of teaching and using narrative to connect to values. Modern parables abound as well. We will explore parables from around the world and then attempt to write one of our own.
November 11—Writing the Parable II
We will share our parable drafts, receive feedback for expansion or rewrites, and perhaps look at a few other examples.
November 18—Open Mic Night!
Your chance to read some work that is going well so far, solicit feedback, or just ask for attentive listeners. Everyone will have a chance to read a selection or selections of his/her choice.
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Sun | Oct 25 | 10am to 11am | Playground Round up your friends and family for our annual fall celebration! Children preschool through 5th grade are invited to enjoy pony rides*, s'mores, painting mini pumpkins, and games. Youth are encouraged to help with the fun, while parents of infants and toddlers are welcome to bring their little ones to enjoy the playground. Activities will begin at 10 AM. Please check your children in at the welcome table on the playground. Invite your neighbors and friends! *Due to weight restrictions, pony rides are limited to children under 12 years old. |
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Sunday | Oct 25 | Consecration Sunday | Stewardship 2027 | Set the Table, Serve the City Your generosity sets the table for every ministry, meal, and neighbor Peachtree serves. Make your 2027 pledge at peachtree.org/give2027 by Consecration Sunday, October 25. Pledges received by then help our Board set next year's budget. |
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Saturday | Nov. 7 | 10am | Burns Hall Bring your appetite and an open mind. We're firing up the griddle for a men's pancake breakfast and welcoming author Zachary Wagner for a talk drawn from his new book, Men of Virtue: How the Fruit of the Spirit Forms Male Character in the Modern World (Brazos Press). Wagner is an ordained minister and New Testament scholar who completed a doctorate in New Testament studies at Oxford. His argument is that the crisis facing men is real, but the answer isn't bravado, erasure, or culture-war confusion. It's virtue: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. His talk explores what each of those looks like in a man's work, friendships, marriage, and inner life. Learn more at Zachary Wagner .com Order the book: Strandbooks Come hungry. Stay for the questions. Bring a friend, a son, a neighbor, or the guy from your small group who says he's too busy for this sort of thing. $15 includes breakfast. |
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Sunday | Nov 15 | Noon | Burns Hall | $5 Kids, $10 Adults, $20 to-go meals! Join us Sunday, November 15 at 12:00 PM for one of our favorite annual fundraisers! Our middle and high school students are hosting a Spaghetti Lunch & Cake Auction to help raise money for their 2027 Mission Trip, social events, service projects, and other youth ministry opportunities throughout the year. Lunch is just $10 for adults and $5 for kids, and if you can't stay, you can take home a family-style meal for $20, including sauce, noodles, and bread (meat and vegetarian options available!). And, of course, no Cake Auction would be complete without plenty of delicious treats to bid on. We are looking for people who are willing to donate cakes, cookies, pies, brownies, or any other homemade baked goods for the auction. Bring your appetite, your generosity, and your competitive bidding spirit, and help support our students as they serve, worship, grow, and have fun together! |
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Sunday | Nov 22 | Stew Wood Hall Get an early start on Christmas shopping. Come to the Bette Howard Christmas Cupboard Fundraiser Kickoff on Nov. 22 in Stew Wood Hall. Old favorites and new items for sale. Contact Deb Stallworth, debnewsta@gmail.com |
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Christmas Poinsettias | $15 | Order by Dec. 6 Honor your loved ones with our beautiful Christmas Poinsettias, which will adorn the sanctuary during Advent. Please note “in honor” or “in memory” of your loved one and their name. This fundraiser benefits the Youth Ministry. Purchase deadline is December 6th. peachtree.org/poinsettias |
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Sunday, Dec 6, 11am: The Chancel Choir performs selections from Handel’s Messiah in worship. Sunday, Dec 13: Holiday Lunch and the Children’s Christmas Performance following the 11am service. Sunday, Dec 20: The annual Elf Workshop following the 11am service.
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Thursday | Dec 24 | | 5, 8, and 11pm | Sanctuary and Church Grounds Live Nativity: Between the 5pm and 8pm services, out front of the church. Come early, stay late, bring a neighbor. 8pm Candlelight Service: Carols, scripture, and the sanctuary lit by hand-held candles. 11pm Celtic Candlelight Service: Carols and Christmas tunes in the Celtic tradition, with music led by Nick Chambers with Alan and Kim Barnes. Lively, intimate, and acoustic, carrying us right up to the first minutes of Christmas Day.
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Upcoming Recurring Events
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We’d love for you to come help serve Mondays at 8am. Ready to eat at 9! Our recurring needs are frozen breakfast casseroles (if sausage is involved we request turkey sausage), big bowls of cut-up fruit, and ground coffee. These items can be brought to church on Sunday morning and placed in the freezer in the 2nd floor kitchen. Contact Brooks Gignilliat with questions. (404) 709-0199 |
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Sundays | 10am | Room 212 |
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Sundays | 10am | Room 214 Our Parenting Class at Peachtree offers a relaxed, discussion-based environment where parents can connect through real conversations, shared experiences, and practical advice. Whether you're raising toddlers or navigating the teenage years, you'll find encouragement and support. We enjoy taking time to pray together, supporting one another through the ups and downs of parenting. New parents are always welcome—come join us for meaningful discussion and a deeper sense of community. |
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Sundays | 10:00 am | Room 217 Fellowship is the perfect name for this class, where members gather in a warm, welcoming space to learn, connect, and share in the abundant grace and blessings of God. It’s a place where relationships are built, both through the class and throughout church-wide activities, offering countless opportunities to grow together in faith. The class focuses on helping older adults deepen their understanding of the Bible, its relevance and importance to living our Christian faith. Our lessons explore essential themes like faith, joy, love, forgiveness, and the essence of living as a community of believers. Each Sunday, a rotating team of teachers brings new perspectives, blending historical insights with contemporary reflections, sparking thought-provoking discussions and moments of shared growth. Come be a part of this vibrant group of prime-time adults as we continue to grow our understanding of Jesus' teachings and what it truly means to live as a community of believers. |
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Sundays | 10:00 am | Room 218 Women of all ages are welcome to join us as we study God's word together and support each other through prayer and fellowship. Contact Janet Speer with questions: janet-speer@att.net |
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Sundays | Sept. 20 – Nov. 15 | 10:00 AM “Lord, teach us to pray,” Jesus’ disciples once asked. Join us as we reflect on great prayers of Abraham, Moses, Mary and others as we seek to enrich our own prayer life. |
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Sundays | 10am | 1st Floor Youth Room Our Youth Sunday School class for middle and high school students (6th-12th grade) is designed to help teens connect with Scripture in a real and meaningful way.
In this 45-minute session, we'll explore how God’s Word speaks directly to the challenges and decisions teens face every day—whether it's friendships, identity, faith, or purpose.
Through engaging teaching and thoughtful discussion, students will not only dive deeper into understanding the character of God, but also strengthen their theology and build a foundation for navigating life with faith and wisdom.
This class is a place to learn, ask questions, and grow together in a supportive, vibrant community.
Teachers: Rev. Katie Bond & Jeff Bond |
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Sundays | 10AM | ROOM 215 Logos Men’s Sunday School Class exercises our biblical imagination as we focus on one compelling biblical word at a time. You are invited to an intentional discussion that includes the question, “What does the Word of God mean to us?” Each month we will grapple with how the Word of God is evident in various aspects of our lives. |
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If you are interested in providing Sunday morning flowers for the Sanctuary altar or niches in memory of a family member, please contact Karen Upchurch for more information. karen.upchurch@gmail.com |
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Welcome, Volunteers!You can help our church in numerous ways by volunteering. Here are a few current openings: Legacy Club, Tuesdays and Thursdays, respite ministry, kbond@peachtree.org Monday Breakfast Club, Monday mornings, outreach ministry, bgignilliat@peachtree.org Children’s area, Sunday mornings, children’s ministry, rschulz@peachtree.org Greeters, special events, connections ministry, dstone@peachtree.org Please email the ministry contact for more information on how you might help. |
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The Legacy Club. There are more than 43 million unpaid caregivers in the US who care for a child or adult family member. The Legacy Club provides respite (a break) for caregivers and their loved ones who are experiencing cognitive decline resulting from loneliness, isolation, stroke, and dementia. |
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October Partner: All outreach giving this month goes to support MAC This October, Peachtree is helping stock the pantry at the Midtown Assistance Center. For 40 years, MAC has worked to prevent hunger and homelessness among the working poor in our own neighborhood. All outreach giving this month goes to support MAC, and you can also help by bringing items their clients ask for most: Pantry items: canned chicken, canned salmon, chili, Vienna sausages, canned soups, canned vegetables, beef stew, Hamburger Helper, rice, baked beans, pancake mix and syrup, cooking oil, peanut butter and jelly, canned fruit, juice, coffee, and tea Most needed: Household items: laundry detergent, paper products, cleaning supplies Hygiene items: soap, shampoo, deodorant Snacks: granola bars, snack kits
For more information, contact Brooks Gignilliat at bgignilliat@peachtree.org. |
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