TUCKER, Ga. — Thanksgiving will come a little early this year for First Baptist Church, Tucker, Ga., with a Nov. 12 ribbon-cutting and grand opening of a new community ministry center made possible by the generosity of Wells Fargo Bank.
After San Francisco-based Wells Fargo acquired Wachovia in 2008, a Wachovia branch next door to the church was closed and its operations moved to other locations.
Late in 2008, First, Tucker, pastor Randy Shepley and Pastor Dave Kivett of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church caught a vision. What if the former Wachovia bank building could become a place to house the local cooperative ministry group and other non-profit groups in the Tucker area?
From that idea, the Tucker Community Center at First, Tucker, was born.
Wells Fargo offered to donate the property if the transaction could be closed by the end of 2010.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony included a welcome to the center’s first two tenants: Habitat for Humanity Dekalb County and NETWorks Cooperative Ministries, a group of churches, groups, businesses and individuals committed to assist in meeting urgent needs related especially to housing and utilities in the Northlake-Embry Hills-Tucker area northeast of Atlanta.
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