On the Cover: Find Your Community with Church on Main in Snellville

By Kristen Eleveld

Many people in the Snellville community are familiar with First Baptist Snellville, a staple that has been around since the late 1800s. And if you’re driving by and wondering where First Baptist Snellville has gone, don’t worry. It’s right where it’s always been. But now it has a new name to match its goals for reaching the community that has surrounded it for so long. Welcome to Church on Main.

Led by Pastor Brian Boyles, the church has worked to be an intentional, integral part of the neighborhoods around it as it invites everyone into its doors for services and events. Though the name is different, the mission and values are the same: to teach the Bible to anyone who wants to learn.

“We discussed changing the name for almost three years before we made a decision,” said Brian. “We talked about it as a staff and as a church to make sure everyone understood why we wanted to change the name.”

For Brian and the staff at Church on Main, the biggest goal of the name change was to be more accessible to members of the community. Their doctrine, statement of faith, and other values remain exactly the same as always as they work to teach biblical truth to those around them.

“What we believe has not changed,” explained Brian. “The only thing that’s different is the way we do church.”

Like so many others in his community, Brian is no stranger to overcoming hardships and struggles related to his faith. His plans to create a church environment that appealed to more of the community were driven by his desire to let everyone know that they were welcome to worship anytime, regardless of anything that may have happened in their past or present. This is also one of the reasons that Church on Main has two services every Sunday – one that plays more traditional music and another that has a more contemporary feel. Whatever you are looking for in a friendly, gospel-driven church, Church on Main is working to make sure you can find it.

Brian credits the welcoming nature of the staff and church members as one of the

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