Presbyterian Mission Agency Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church Archives

‘This is so SDOP’

Posted October 14th, 2019

The woman from Iraq was dressed completely in black. It was the first time she had been to Refugee Family Literacy at Memorial Drive Ministries in Stone Mountain, Georgia in two weeks. When Jennifer Green, director of the program, asked what had happened, she learned the woman’s brother had been killed by a car bomb in Iraq. Green gave the woman a hug, told her she was sad for her, and took her to class, explaining to her teacher what had happened. It was an English-as-a-second-language class for mothers of children in the program’s preschool.

Self-Development of People will engage with Atlanta at next meeting

Posted July 30th, 2019

With its September meeting in Atlanta, the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) aims to get to know the Georgia capital and its surrounding communities better with a series of workshops and meetings.

Memorial Drive Presbyterian partners with refugees in ministry, mission

Posted June 14th, 2017

Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Stone Mountain is about two miles from Clarkston, Georgia, which counts as many as half of its 13,000 residents as refugees. Those who trace their Presbyterian roots to Scotland, Africa and the Caribbean, along with those who found their roots at Memorial Drive, worship side by side.

Memorial Drive Presbyterian partners with refugees in ministry and mission

Posted May 4th, 2017

Of the 13,000 people who live in Clarkston, Georgia, as many as half are refugees, according to World Relief Atlanta. The majority of these refugees have fled war and persecution in their homelands in search of a better life.