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| ATCO BAPTIST CHURCH Cartersville, Georgia Church Growth 1995 - 2003 |
| March 2004: Sunday School Average: 416 March 30, 2003 Sunday School High Attendance: 962 March 26, 2003 Discipleship Training Highest Attendance: 260 |


| Brother Wayne is known as "Mr. Church Builder", having taken several churches that were running 50 to a little over 100 in Sunday School to an average attendance of 300 to 545. The New Antioch Baptist Church, in Shannon, went from 48 in Sunday School to an average of 545, with a high attendance of 879, and from 19 in Church Training to an average of 201. The highest Church Training attendance was 294, and 122 were baptized during the last associational year. Over 200 professions of faith were recorded during the last year. Brother Wayne’s last pastorate was at the Atco Baptist Church, in Cartersville. They went from 119 in Sunday School to an average of 369, with a high attendance of 962. Discipleship Training averaged 210, with the highest attendance of 260, and 51 were baptized the last associational year. "The Sunday School Challenger" for January, February and March, 2004, published by Sunday School/Open Group Ministries of the Georgia Baptist Convention listed names of churches that have had consistent growth in average attendance and baptisms for the past five years (1997-2002). Atco Baptist was listed as one of thirty-seven churches, out of 3500. |
| Wayne Hamrick Ministries, Inc. P.O. Box 200337 Cartersville, GA 30120-9006 Phone: (770) 386-7710 E-Mail: waynehamrick@bellsouth.net www.waynehamrickministries.com |