Rachel Beaver
Rachel Beaver
The Impact Multicultural congregation celebrated its organization into the 189th Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Georgia-Cumberland Conference on Sabbath, August 16, 2025. The Impact Church is a close-knit community of members with a heart for service in the greater Chattanooga, Tenn., area.
The church began as a small group of around 20 young people known as “On Fire for Christ.” The group felt passionate about service and outreach in areas such as prison ministries, nursing home visits, children’s ministries, and general community involvement and presence. As the group grew and started building families, they needed a place to call home. They began meeting in a classroom on the campus of Southern Adventist University. The initial 20 people became 80, and then 100, quickly outgrowing their increasingly larger meeting spaces.
One space they moved into was a renovated dentist office. For the renovation, most of the church members showed up to help paint, knock down walls, and other tasks. The group coming together to get the job done was a testament to the strong sense of community that Impact had built. Eventually, when they needed yet again a bigger home, they prayed for God to provide. Their current space just off of South Lee Highway became available when a previous religious group no longer had need for it, and sold it to Impact with everything that they needed already inside.
“Our pastor told us that our mission is not to be in this building,” said Edmundo Delgado Jr., church elder, during the organization service. “Our mission is to be out in the community. He put us here for a reason because there is someone somewhere that needs to hear about Him, and we are charged with sharing Him.”
In his sermon for the Sabbath morning program, Gary Rustad, Georgia-Cumberland Conference president, challenged Impact Church “to pray and pursue” so that, as it says in 1 Kings 8, “All of the people of the Earth may know that the Lord is God.”
As the congregation begins a new phase of their journey, they invite all to pray that Impact Multicultural Church will remain true to its name, and continue striving to make an impact in their community.
Georgia-Cumberland | October 2025
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