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Anthony Chapel to celebrate homecoming this Sunday
All persons with a special love for Anthony Chapel are invited to attend and share their remembrances with others. For many years Anthony Chapel has stood as the center of the surrounding communities with many connections to the congregations of the area churches. The congregation hopes that as many as possible will celebrate with them and renew old acquaintances while making new memories. The homecoming message will be brought by Rev. Susannah Davis, pastor of Kirkwood United Church of Christ in the Atlanta area. She is a native of Warrenton and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Purnell Davis. She graduated from Briarwood Academy in 1988 and began her undergraduate studies at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia. Upon graduation she moved to Atlanta to attend Candler School of Theology at Emory University where she received her Master of Divinity. Rev. Davis was ordained an elder in the United Methodist Church in 1997 and has served several churches in rural and suburban North Georgia. She served for six years as the senior minister at St. Paul United Methodist Church, a downtown church in Atlanta. Last year, she bought an existing coffee shop in the Kirkwood community of Atlanta with hopes of relating the gospel and reaching out to people with God's love in a "new way." The coffee shop, "Gathering Grounds," celebrated a one-year anniversary in July and is becoming more and more successful each day. Since January, Rev. Davis has been holding monthly services in the coffee shop, inviting all people to participate and worship together. The church is called Kirkwood United Church of Christ. The congregation meets weekly for Bible study and prayers and meets monthly for service projects and worship.
Rev. Davis serves on the board of the Atlanta L'ARCGE community, a non-profit organization that seeks to serve those with severe mental disabilities and continues to teach as an adjunct professor at the Candler School of Theology.
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