COMMUNITY CHURCH
WHO WE ARE
AT Sandy Springs We ARE REACHING ATLANTA GEORGIA for Jesus Christ, one family at a time.
Sandy Springs Community Church started meeting for worship in November 2010 in a second-language school. We have been meeting about twice a month since and are encouraged by the growth we have encountered. The school has recently expanded our meeting space to accommodate our growing numbers.
OUR VISION
We love our community. Sandy Springs is the place where people in our community turn when they are going through difficult times. We have made ourselves available to the Sandy Springs network of hospitals, including the Children’s Hospital, making counseling and support available when they encounter a family in crisis.
Sandy Springs is not only a place of refuge and healing, but also a place of equipping and sending. Our ministry requires us to really hone in on relationships and needs. Building one-on-one relationships takes time, can be messy, and is often a challenge, but we believe that is what it will take to reach this community for Christ. We are also working with a smaller revenue source, so we must be creative in raising funds.
Our focus is on strengthening the family by serving in the local elementary schools and hospitals, providing support groups for marriages and parenting. We also provide an after-school program to help students with their schoolwork. Many of the parents don’t speak English, so one way we are able to help meet their needs is by serving their children.
Our prayer for this community is that God would convict people of sin and bring them to a place where they will seek Him for the peace and life that only comes from a saving relationship with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
Our prayer for this community is that God would convict people of sin and bring them to a place where they will seek Him for the peace and life that only comes from a saving relationship with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
OUR CORE VALUES
COMMUNITY
(Acts 2:42-47; John 17:20-23)
We believe that the Church should be a place where people are the priority. We seek to create an environment where people can love and be loved, serve and be served, celebrate and be celebrated — a place where people can discover all that it means to be a Christian. We also seek to create an atmosphere where people are challenged to take steps closer to God on a weekly basis and are equipped as ministers of Christ.
At Sandy Springs Community Church, we do this through small group gatherings that meet throughout the week called LifeGroups and through weekly gatherings where we come to worship, study the Bible, pray, fellowship and break bread together.
At Sandy Springs Community Church, we do this through small group gatherings that meet throughout the week called LifeGroups and through weekly gatherings where we come to worship, study the Bible, pray, fellowship and break bread together.
UNITY
(John 17:20-23)
We believe that the body of Christ is to be unified in Christ. At Sandy Springs Community Church, we choose to pray for and work with our brothers and sisters in Christ, regardless of Christian affiliation. We want to take steps to help bring healing to the church and awakening to our city.
We also seek to be a leader in our city who embraces all people from all nations and all backgrounds who live and work in our community.
WORSHIP
(Psalms 100:4 & 144:9)
At Sandy Springs Community Church, we seek to provide an environment where people can corporately express worship – in many different ways. Worship is about the relationship between God and his children, and we desire to communicate that worship is both individual and corporate.
We acknowledge the God-created power of the Arts to bring people into God’s presence and communicate His truth. We believe the Church should use its time, talents and treasure to their fullest to reach and minister to the community around them.
IMPACT
(Matthew 28: 18-20)
We believe that God is active in our world and He wants to live through His people. Jesus cared about people who didn’t know Him as well as those who did. At Sandy Springs Community Church, we want to see what God is doing in our community and world, step into it and serve the needs of the “least of these.”
LIFE
(2 Corinthians 5:17, 21)
Simply put, the GraceLife is experiencing the saving life of Christ. When a person becomes a Christian, they become a new creation. No longer do they have to be a slave to sin!
We first want to help each person that comes in contact with Sandy Springs Community Church to receive the exchanged life through faith in Christ. We then want to help them mature in their understanding of this crucial aspect of their core identity.
OUR STAFF
Deane Johnson
Founding Elder / Lead Pastor
Deane Johnson was born and raised in Sandy Springs, Georgia, and still has many family ties there. He graduated from Oglethorpe University and from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity. Deane has served in four churches, three of which were new church plants and one church restart. He has done so bi-vocationally.
Deane and his wife, Erika, live in Sandy Springs with their four children.
Tom & Linda Sommer
Tom, Executive Team Leader | Linda, Author & Speaker
Bill & Laurie
Sending Missions Pastor to Arizona
Ron & Hazel Kath
Senior Team Leaders
Tom & Linda Sommer
Tom, Executive Team Leader | Linda, Author & Speaker
Bill & Laurie
Sending Missions Pastor to Arizona
Ron & Hazel Kath
Senior Team Leaders
Pam Kell
Outreach Team Leader
Pam Kell
Outreach Team Leader
Dwight & Tere Lovell
Worship Team Leaders
Nathan Johnson
Audio-Video Team Leader
Dwight & Tere Lovell
Worship Team Leaders
Nathan Johnson
Audio-Video Team Leader