Welcome to Grace North Atlanta, Alpharetta GA 30004

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Our Worship location is:
175 Roswell St Alpharetta, GA 30004
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Staff Biographies

Rev. John Hardie and family - Lead/Teaching Pastor
john@gracenorthatlanta.org

John Hardie serves as the lead pastor of Grace North Atlanta. Married 18 years to Adrienne with three children, John played baseball at the University of Alabama where he met Adrienne for the first time when she was an AOPi. Following graduation John and Adrienne spent 15 years on staff with Athletes in Action, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, serving as a missionary in Prague, Czechoslovakia and as a campus minister at Auburn University and Yale University. In 1996 John and Adrienne moved to seminary with one child and left with three. Along the way John did the M.Div and M.A. at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando and then moved to New Haven, CT in 1999 to start a campus ministry at Yale University where John led Athletes in Action in the Ivy League for seven years. In 2002 John completed a masters in theology at Yale and is a candidate for the Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at Princeton Seminary writing his dissertation on evil and the Book of Job in the theology of Karl Barth and John Calvin. John has taught theology and ethics for Reformed Theological Seminary at their D.C. campus and the RTS Atlanta campus (www.rts.edu). Prior to the call to plant Grace North Atlanta, John was ordained at Christ Presbyterian Church in New Haven, CT and served as the Senior Minister of Independent Presbyterian Church in Memphis, TN 2006-2007. With a love for preaching and teaching the Scriptures, John is passionate about seeing Grace North Atlanta embody the beauty and richness of a theology of grace. He is thrilled about leading Grace North Atlanta to be a church community centered on the gospel and most of all enjoys developing leaders and building into the lives of men at Grace North Atlanta.

Chris Sibben - Youth Ministry and Administration
chris@gracenorthatlanta.org

Chris has been with Grace North Atlanta since June 2009. He works with our Middle School and High School ministries and also performs various administrative tasks for the church. These tasks include managing the church calendar and church communication as well as leading the monthly Servant Leader team meetings. Before coming to our church, Chris was a teacher at the Wesleyan School in Norcross and a graduate of the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Chris is also active in the community as a youth soccer coach.

Morgan Havig - Student Ministry & Bridges of Grace Leader
morgan@gracenorthatlanta.org

We are thrilled to have Morgan Havig serving on our Ministry Team at Grace North Atlanta. Morgan grew up in Marietta, went to Walton High School and then to Wake Forest University where she played volleyball and studied Spanish and Religion. After graduating, Morgan spent two years on staff at a church in Tampa, FL leading student ministry with girls in discipleship and evangelism and coaching varsity volleyball at a local high school. Morgan then served for two years as a missionary in Venezuela focusing on outreach to university students and teaching English and American Civilization at a local university. Morgan recently returned to the States and is excited about the opportunity to be a part of the community at Grace North Atlanta. In Morgan we have a very gifted, winsome leader for our middle/high school girls ministry. She is a terrific addition to our Ministry Team with contagious enthusiasm and a heart for leading our church to be a community of mercy. Best of all, Morgan never takes herself too seriously which has the endearing effect of putting everyone around her at ease.