Apartment Life

The “Apartment Life Project” is an intentional multi-ethnic church planting project with the goal of establishing Seventh-day Adventist churches directly in Atlanta metro apartment communities.

 With the growing awareness of non-churched people living in apartment complexes (estimates are up to 95%) in the Atlanta metro area, there is a need to place mission-minded workers in apartments to expressly reach tenants with the Three Angels Message and intentionally start new “Apartment Churches.”

We seek to establish a strategic presence in Atlanta area apartments with the intent of starting multi-ethnic lay-led “Apartment churches.” We seek couples or individuals to move into an apartment complex in order to establish relationships, build social networks, start small groups, and start “Apartment churches” in the Atlanta area.

These volunteers will be trained, equipped, and coached by the Community Life Coordinator and the Director of the Good News Atlanta Project in the Georgia-Cumberland Conference and the Good News Atlanta team.

These volunteers will also receive training through one-on-one meetings, various workshops, and weekly mentoring meetings. Careful instruction will be given to help set the "DNA" of the “Apartment church” plant as a multi-ethnic and evangelistic oriented church.

With thousands of apartment complexes in the Atlanta metro area, we are compelled to reach the unchurched people who live there. We seek to establish this Seventh-day Adventist “Apartment church” as a prototype of many more SDA “Apartment churches” to come in the near future, using the following principles to help organize our lives around the spiritual directive to go and make disciples.

1. Asking God for His heart of love to be our heart of love, naturally flowing to those in need as we come to know and trust the One who is in charge by learning to hear His very whisper, depend fully on Him, follow all He suggests, and letting Him be the leader in all things.
2. Quieting our life of distractions so that we can hear those in need, reorganizing our lives to keep God first and making relationships priority.
3. Letting Christ live our lives so that our identity as members of Christ is primary, holding the spiritual dimension to be central to the attraction of relationships.
4. Accepting a life of community, intentionally living in close proximity with those who are most in need, and then being available for service.
5. Allowing God to give us the experience that Jonathan had when he went up against the philistines- Jonathan said that there is nothing that exists that can hinder the Lord, whether to save by many or by few- we would be the few Christ can use.