Peachtree Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian church in Buckhead, Atlanta, United States.
Peachtree Presbyterian Church occupies a 26-acre campus at 3434 Roswell Road in Buckhead, Atlanta, where the congregation moved in May 1960. The site holds worship and education buildings plus a recreation center opened in September 1999 with two basketball courts. The congregation's first home was a gray granite church built in 1926 at Peachtree Road and Mathieson Drive.
Peachtree began in 1910 as a children's Sunday school founded by Charles and Ida Honour, and was chartered as a church on November 3, 1919. Its first building, of gray granite, went up in 1926 at Peachtree Road and Mathieson Drive. The congregation moved to 3434 Roswell Road in Buckhead in May 1960, where the campus covers 26 acres. Rev. W. Frank Harrington, senior pastor from 1971 until his death in 1999, grew membership from under 3,000 to more than 11,000.
The name comes from Peachtree Road, where the congregation's gray granite church stood from 1926. Since 2000 the senior pastor has been Dr. Victor D. Pentz, a former chaplain to Space Shuttle launch crews and leader of a beach ministry to Southern California surfers; he retired in May 2016 and was succeeded in January 2017 by Dr. Richard Kannwischer, the eighth senior pastor, who sits on the board of the Fox Theatre.
The campus sits at 3434 Roswell Road in Buckhead, spread over 26 acres, so expect to walk between buildings once parked. The recreation center opened in September 1999 and holds two basketball courts used for fitness programs. Worship draws roughly 1,700 adults and 500 children and students weekly, so services are busy; confirm current times before visiting.
The recreation center opened in September 1999 and holds two basketball courts; the church treats fitness and recreation programs there as part of its ministry. Senior pastor Richard Kannwischer, who took the post in January 2017, also sits on the board of directors of Atlanta's Fox Theatre.
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