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This November, we’re exploring how God’s vision shapes our lives—from thanksgiving to anticipation. Rooted in Habakkuk 2:1–3, this four-week series invites us to see God’s promise with grateful hearts and hopeful faith. Together, we’ll give thanks to God for how we’ve been able to live into Atlanta First’s vision to worship. serve. grow. engage. and lean into the new vision of The United Methodist Church to love boldly, serve joyfully, and lead courageously, trusting that God’s vision is already unfolding among us as we prepare for the coming of Christ.
Let’s join in this journey from gratitude to hope as we live God’s vision together! Click the link below to download the Write the Vision weekly guide:
Write the Vision Weekly Guide Book
This October we are embarking on The Generosity Challenge—a four-week journey designed to deepen our faith and reshape how we think about giving. Rooted in scripture and everyday practice, this series invites us to see generosity not as an obligation, but as a joyful response to God’s abundant love. Together, we’ll discover how gratitude fuels generosity, how generosity shapes our hearts, and how living generously can transform our community and world. Come ready to be inspired, challenged, and renewed as we step into a season of gratitude. Be sure to download the Daily Challenges Notebook to take your own personal Generosity Challenge!
Join us in worship during the month of September as we explore how God shapes redemption from our messy lives, muddled motives, and mixed-up circumstances. In this four week series we will be guided by the scripture from the books of Jeremiah and Luke, where we will discover how God’s transforming grace molds us into people of compassion, justice, and renewal.
What breaks your heart—and God’s? Embark on a new five week preaching and teaching series that brings together the bold voices of ancient prophets and modern changemakers like Martin Luther King Jr., Greta Thunberg, Desmond Tutu, and Etty Hillesum. Guided by the prophetic insights in Richard Rohr’s The Tears of Things, we will explore how grief, anger, and lament can open the door to healing, justice, and new hope. Let’s discover how love can bring life to a weary world!
Welcome to Summer in the City worship! During the summer months we take a less formal approach to worship, and look for the spiritual lessons we can learn from fun movies and tv-shows that the whole family can enjoy together.
What if grace isn’t hidden? What if it’s right next door — waiting to be seen in the people you pass every day? During July, we will journey together through a worship and grow series inspired by the themes of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Galatians and the movie A Man Called Otto. The series weaves together Paul’s teachings on grace, freedom, and community with the emotional journey of grief, healing, and unexpected connection found in Otto’s story. Together, we will explore how grace shapes our interactions, softens assumptions, and leads us to love beyond appearances — even in the midst of grief, frustration, and personal pain. Grace is not some untouchable and unknowable theological concept – it’s right in front of us in our neighborhood, workplace, and our relationships.
Welcome to Summer in the City worship! During the summer months we take a less formal approach to WORSHIP, and look for the spiritual lessons we can learn from fun movies and tv-shows that the whole family can enjoy together. During the month of June, you are invited to join in as we explore the series Inside Faith: Growing in God, a five-week journey through the emotions that shape our lives and the Spirit who transforms them. Inspired by Inside Out 2 and grounded in Scripture, we’ll explore how joy, fear, shame, and even nostalgia can become sacred spaces of growth. This growth is God’s invitation to transformation—not perfection, but wholeness. Discover how God meets us not in perfection, but in our becoming!
After the resurrection, Jesus left His followers with a mission: to be His witnesses to the ends of the earth. But between the mountaintop moment of Easter and the movement that became the early Church, there was a gap—a space filled with uncertainty, challenge, growth, and the ever-present pull of distraction.
Inspired by the familiar warning from the London Underground, Mind the Gap is a call to stay alert and intentional as we follow Jesus in everyday life. Just as passengers are cautioned not to fall into the gap between the platform and the train, we too must be careful not to slip into the space between faith and action, belief and obedience, purpose and passivity.
In this series, we are journeying through the book of Acts to explore how the early Church was built—through bold faith, Spirit-led living, and unwavering mission. We’re uncovering how the same power that fueled the first disciples is available to us today, helping us bridge the gaps in our own lives.
It’s time to mind the gap—and move forward with purpose.
“With a Great Voice” – Rev. Chris Rapko
The season of Lent, the forty days leading up to Easter (excluding Sundays, which are mini-Easters), is a time for introspection and preparation for the coming miracle of Jesus’ resurrection. During this season we are using Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline as a guide to explore the fundamental disciplines of Christian faith we can practice in our everyday lives that will help us to move away from sin and get closer to God. Each week we will focus on one such discipline, including the inward disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study; the outward disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission and service; and the corporate disciplines of confession, worship, guidance and celebration. Join us in worship and grow together in a small group this Lent as we learn how Practice Makes Perfect.
Anointed people are called to live differently from the world—showing others that God’s way is the best way. This February, come experience a worship series exploring Christ’s counter-cultural call through the Gospel of Luke. Step out of the world’s rhythm and into God’s. Don’t miss powerful worship and sermons from top United Methodist preachers across North Georgia as we all seek to live more like Jesus!
It’s a new season! It’s a new day! A fresh anointing is headed our way! (Adapted from New Season by Israel Houghton) In Psalm 96, the Psalmist instructs the people of God to “Sing to the Lord a New Song!” A new year gives us a fresh opportunity and a new season with God. We don’t have to keep dragging what is behind along. We don’t have to bring the old year into this new season. In 2025, we can overcome what is behind and live forward into God’s new season for us! In this series, we will explore what it means to live in the newness that God gives us as we begin the new year and how to sing a new song – a song of praise and triumph – to God in 2025. Overcome what is behind and move on into a new season and a new song!
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