Action Church has New Home

Action Church is moving from its current location on Germantown Avenue into the former Spring Creek Road Baptist Church.

According to an email statement from Action Church Pastor Daniel Beard, Action Church closed on the purchase of the Spring Creek facility on August 28.

“Our desire is to continue to provide a place of hope, help, and restoration in the East Ridge community that we know and love,” Beard said in the statement. “We want to continue to take ministry outside of the four walls of just a Sunday morning worship service by putting our faith into action.”

Beard said that Spring Creek Road Baptist Church was one of the oldest churches in East Ridge. It will be relocating to Ringgold, Georgia.

Action Church, which was founded in 2015 and began weekly worship services on January 10, 2016, has outgrown three different facilities. Between 150 and 175 people attend worship services at the Church of God affiliate. Action Church’s new facility can accommodate more than 300 people.

Beard said the acquisition of Spring Creek Road Baptist Church has created a great deal of excitement in both congregations.

“The congregation at Action Church has been ecstatic to have some space to grow and room to expand our ministry,” Beard said. “And we are excited for the Spring Creek Road Baptist Church congregation as they relocate and build something new in North Georgia.”

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.