Buckhead Church is a
nondenominational Christian
Non-denominational Christianity (or nondenominational Christianity) consists of churches, and individual Christians, which typically distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities by not formally aligni ...
church in the
Buckhead
Buckhead is the wikt:uptown, uptown commercial and residential district of the city of Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, comprising approximately the northernmost fifth of the city. Buckhead is the third largest business district within ...
district of
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ...
. Buckhead Church is one of eight locations of North Point Ministries.
Andy Stanley
Charles Andrew Stanley, known as Andy Stanley, is an American who is the founder and senior pastor of North Point Ministries, a nondenominational evangelical Christian church with several campuses across the north metro Atlanta areas. He is the fo ...
is the senior pastor of North Point Ministries, and Joel Thomas is the lead pastor of Buckhead Church.
History
Buckhead Church was founded on April 29, 2001 as a biweekly meeting called Buckhead Fellowship. Andy Stanley advised the founders and was the first guest speaker. The church officially became affiliated with North Point Ministries in August 2001.
The church originally met in the building of Buckhead Baptist Church on Sunday evenings. In 2002, the church moved to the
Doubletree Hotel
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in Buckhead.
On
Easter
Easter, also called Pascha ( Aramaic: פַּסְחָא , ''paskha''; Greek: πάσχα, ''páskha'') or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in t ...
2003, the church moved to a building in
Sandy Springs
Sandy Springs is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia, United States, and a suburb of Atlanta. The city's population was 108,080 at the 2020 census, making it Georgia's 7th most populous city. It is the site of several corporate headquar ...
formerly occupied by a
Harris Teeter
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grocery store.
From the fall of 2006 through the spring of 2007, Buckhead Church opened a second temporary campus in a movie theater at
Atlantic Station. This was known as the "Midtown Gathering."
The church held its first services at its current location at Tower Place on May 6, 2007. The building houses an auditorium that holds 3,000 seats.
Church blends in with office towers
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References
External links
* {{official, url=http://northpointministries.org
Evangelical megachurches in the United States
Megachurches in Georgia
Evangelical churches in Georgia (U.S. state)
Churches in Atlanta
Christian organizations established in 2001
21st-century Protestant churches
2001 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
21st-century churches in the United States