Ormewood Church in Atlanta, Georgia, announced that it started a new children's ministry program. The church also invited more volunteers to help with its youth and children's ministries.
The church's announcement page did not provide any details about the new children's ministry program, but members were encouraging more volunteers to help them out in the ministry.
It added that the church had already started some "safe in-person activities."
Meanwhile, kids are invited to join their parents for worship at 11 a.m. on Sundays; they will "follow the leader" to the classroom for Sunday School after the Blessing for Kids moment in the service.
For children to participate, the church must have a completed information form on file for them, which the church provided in a link.
On the other hand, individuals who would like to volunteer and help out were also given a registration link.
Ormewood Church
Ormewood Church is a worshiping community committed to inviting everyone to discover the active God in our communities, per the church website.
They work to empower that leadership as it fosters LGBTQ+ participation in leadership roles within the church and the broader community. They added all persons are the church members' brothers and sisters in Christ, according to its belief that they are all created in God's likeness.
There are indications of new life at the historic sanctuary on Delaware Avenue, which closed its doors with only 15 members left inside about a year ago, the page said.
Residents of Ormewood Park, nearby neighbors, Ormewood School families, and admirers of the beloved Ormewood Dog Yard gathered numerous times throughout the spring and summer of 2016, the history section revealed.
Members gathered in potluck-style community meetings to discuss what would happen to that 1071 Delaware Avenue property after the church closed, the site bared.
The people's voice and vision were clear and unmistakable: to maintain this particular Ormewood Park center as a community gathering space that gives priority to the locals while providing innovative and exciting methods for neighbors to interact with one another and their faith, the page revealed.
A brand-new church was planted in accordance with the community's vision, per the website.
Twelve Southeast Atlantans from various backgrounds gathered throughout the late summer, fall, and winter to imagine and plan the design of a new church for our community, the page reads.
They created and published an advertisement for an organizing pastor under the direction of the Greater Atlanta Presbytery, which was followed by months of interviews, sermon listening, and late-night discussions over pots of coffee in the church's basement overlooking the Dog Yard, the about page said,
On March 15, Jenelle Holmes received her call as the inaugural organizing pastor of this new "Ormewood Church," bringing the years of preparation to a close, the page added.
Jenelle "grew up running amok in the communities of Washington State," hiking, kayaking, and beachcombing the Puget Sound. She was formerly on staff at Trinity Presbyterian Church in North Atlanta and held degrees from Whitworth University and Emory's Candler School of Theology, per the history page.
In October 2017, the church began holding services in the Fellowship Hall while they prayed for the sanctuary to be renovated, the page said.
The request was granted, and a grant funded the renovation in early 2021. The church has been holding services in the sanctuary since early September 2021, and the refurbishment is now complete, the site said.
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