Allen Memorial Library

First Baptist Church Decatur Media Center

About Our Library

Located on the second floor of our Sanctuary building, The Allen Memorial Library and Media Center provides quality reading selections and media resources for church members and the local Decatur community.

Our church library contains over 15,323 cataloged items, including 

• Books

• Bibles and Commentaries 

• Periodicals

• Audiobooks

• Movies and films

• A/V equipment rental

• Reading programs and curriculum

• And much more!

Library Collections

Books for Adults  

We have books about our world, the latest fiction bestsellers, non-fiction texts to help with Sunday School study, self-help books, history, biography, periodicals, large-print books, audio-books, and computers to look stuff up. Books we can’t use in our collection, we offer for sale.

Books for Children and Youth

We’re your children’s source for the latest award-winners! Our volunteer staff includes people who know children’s books inside-and-out and can recommend top fiction and non-fiction titles to put in your collection (pre-K—Young Adult). 

Resources for the Decatur Reading Community

The Library is an information source and cheerleader for book festivals (Decatur Book Festival) and author talks (Georgia Center for the Book, Conversations, local bookstores). We post calendars for community book sales, book recommendations, interesting websites — all things BOOK.

Beth’s Books

Each month, Beth Withers, one of our library volunteers, shares the newest books that have been added to our church library this past month:

• PICTURE BOOK

  • Bear Finds Easter by Karma Wilson
    The author’s delightful rhymes and the illustrator’s beautifully detailed and charming pictures bring to life the magic of the season and the joy of tracking down hidden eggs.  Donated by Paula Echols.

• YOUTH FICTION

  • Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Goff
    “A troublesome 12-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who really needs her, remembers the only time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.”  Donated by Carolyn Jones.

• ADULT FICTION

  • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
    A masterful storyteller writes compassionately about a 1972 community in Potsdam, Pennsylvania that houses immigrant Jews and African Americans living side by side, sharing ambitions and sorrows.  The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is at the center of the dilapidated neighborhood.  This endlessly rich saga highlights the different ways in which people look out for each other.  Not to be missed!

• ADULT NON-FICTION

  • Killing the Witches by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
    The newest book by O’Reilly goes far beyond the fateful witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts.  It “tells the dramatic history of how the Puritan tradition and the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the Founding Fathers, the American Revolution and even the Constitutional Convention.”  A compulsively readable book.  Donated by Linda and Freddy Bailey.

Contact the Library

Give us a call at 404.373.1653 (ext. 2229) or send us a message using the form below.