For the past fifty years, First Christian Church of Decatur has offered its facilities for the widest possible number of educational, community and cultural events. It is our goal to help make each event an enjoyable experience for the participants. To insure availability while being good stewards for you and the community we encourage you to schedule/reserve your event(s) months in advance. First Christian Church of Decatur is home to many community-based organizations. See below for a list of our community partners.
AA / Alcoholics Anonymous – Ponce de Leon Group
TIME: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM, each Tuesday evening 
LOCATION: Church Fellowship Hall
Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
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http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org
ALANON – Ponce de Leon Group
TIME: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM, each Tuesday evening 
LOCATION: Pathfinder Classroom
Al-Anon offers understanding help; support to families and friends of problem drinkers. Our program is adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous and is based upon the Twelve Steps, Twelve Traditions and Twelve Concepts of Service.
Atlanta Counseling Group 
The Atlanta Counseling Group are compassionate and competent counselors with extensive training and experience who believe in the indomitability and resiliency of the human spirit.
Atlanta Science Festival 
The Atlanta Science Festival is an annual celebration of the world-class learning and STEM career opportunities in metro Atlanta, featuring 100+ engaging events for curious kids and adults at venues all across the region, committed to expanding access to science learning opportunities for all in metro Atlanta.
https://atlantasciencefestival.org/
Decatur Makers 
Decatur Makers is a community all-ages non-profit makerspace. Whether you’re a tinkerer, artist, woodworker, engineer, sewer, welder, crafter, scientist, student, teacher, entrepreneur, or general dreamer and thinker, Decatur Makers will empower you with new skills through a supportive & diverse community of fellow makers, and inspiring hands-on maker experiences.
Gentle Spirit Christian Church 
Gentle Spirit Christian Church is an independent, affirming, and progressive church serving metro Atlanta. Gentle Spirit is open, affirming, and inclusive.
Jewish Kids Group 
Jewish Kids Group is a new model of Hebrew school designed for all types of Jewish families, including interfaith and unaffiliated. Teachers are trained to engage all learners making JKG a place children look forward to coming, where friendships are made and Jewish identity is built.
https://www.jewishkidsgroups.com/
Narcotics Anonymous
TIME: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM, each Sunday evening
LOCATION: Church Fellowship Hall
Membership is open to all drug addicts, regardless of the particular drug or combination of drugs used. When adapting AA’s First Step, the word “addiction” was substituted for “alcohol,” thus removing drug-specific language and reflecting the “disease concept” of addiction.
There are no social, religious, economic, racial, ethnic, national, gender, or class-status membership restrictions. There are no dues or fees for membership; while most members regularly contribute small sums to help cover the expenses of meetings, such contributions are not mandatory.
Narcotics Anonymous provides a recovery process and support network inextricably linked together. One of the keys to NA’s success is the therapeutic value of addicts working with other addicts. Members share their successes and challenges in overcoming active addiction and living drug-free productive lives through the application of the principles contained within the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of NA. These principles are the core of the Narcotics Anonymous recovery program. Principles incorporated within the steps include:
- admitting there is a problem;
- seeking help;
- engaging in a thorough self-examination;
- confidential self-disclosure;
- making amends for harm done; and
- helping other drug addicts who want to recover.
Central to the Narcotics Anonymous program is its emphasis on practicing spiritual principles. Narcotics Anonymous itself is non-religious, and each member is encouraged to cultivate an individual understanding—religious or not—of this “spiritual awakening.”
Narcotics Anonymous is not affiliated with other organizations, including other twelve step programs, treatment centers, or correctional facilities. As an organization, NA does not employ professional counselors or therapists nor does it provide residential facilities or clinics. Additionally, the fellowship does not provide vocational, legal, financial, psychiatric, or medical services. NA has only one mission: to provide an environment in which addicts can help one another stop using drugs and find a new way to live.
In Narcotics Anonymous, members are encouraged to comply with complete abstinence from all drugs including alcohol. It has been the experience of NA members that complete and continuous abstinence provides the best foundation for recovery and personal growth. NA as a whole has no opinion on outside issues, including prescribed medications. Use of psychiatric medication and other medically indicated drugs prescribed by a physician and taken under medical supervision is not seen as compromising a person’s recovery in NA.
StandUp for Kids 
StandUp for Kids is a national non-profit organization dedicated to ending the cycle of youth homelessness in local communities like yours, who have cared for homeless and at-risk youth since 1990 through housing support, mentoring, drop-in centers, and street outreach.
https://www.standupforkids.org/
Sustaining International Sisters 
SIS is helping asylum seekers break out of their isolation, share their stories, exform trauma, integrate body, mind, heart, and spirit in a new culture, make friends, and establish a sense of belonging to a wider community while enriching the lives of other women participants. SIS aims to create a warm all-embracing community to support those suffering from the loss and stress that comes with re-location and establishing new lives.
Unity Fellowship Church 
Unity Fellowship Church is a new, old ministry that is determined to “Open the Doors of the Church Wide!” so that “whosoever will” can come just as they are and experience the Love of God; and so that the church can go out and meet “whosoever” wherever they are and demonstrate the Love of God. The primary goal is not to increase church membership or build the proverbial “mega church;” rather the goal is to engage in “mega ministry”, particularly to oppressed, poor and other marginalized individuals.
For information on how your organization or community group can access space at First Christian Church of Decatur, please contact our church office.