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Write down for the coming generation what the Lord has done, so that people not yet born will praise him. – Psalms 102:18

Scouting in the Early Years of Peachtree Road

Historic photo of scouts at Peachtree Road UMC in Atlanta, GA.

As we look at the early years of our church’s history (1925-1955), it would be incomplete if we did not include the story of Scouting at Peachtree Road. Scouting, with its emphasis on youth participation in a faith-based environment, was instrumental in bringing many families into the church for membership in the 40s and 50s.

United Methodist Women in the Early Years

Vintage photo of a United Methodist Women's (UMW) circle of Peachtree Road United Methodist Church.

As Peachtree Road United Methodist Church celebrates one hundred years of active ministry, it must recognize the service and invaluable support women have contributed to its success from the very beginning. In those early days in 1925, nineteen citizens of the Buckhead neighborhood in Atlanta committed to become charter members of the proposed Peachtree Methodist Church South. Thirteen of the charter members were women!

The Romance of a Church Building

Sketch of church with columns and steeple

There is romance in building a bridge, a factory… a school, anything which develops community…. But the romance of building a church is greater still. Now these various fabrics have been fashioned into a shrine beneath whose high and hospitable roof
man engage in the highest act of which men are capable, communion with the infinite and eternal Creator Spirit whom our spirits are akin.

Opening the Storybook

Eve Respess and Marcia Gaddis discuss the beginnings of the Peachtree Road Storybook project and the privilege and process of collecting 100 years of stories at PRUMC.

Eve Respess and Marcia Gaddis discuss the beginnings of the Peachtree Road Storybook project and the privilege and process of collecting 100 years of stories at PRUMC.