Our focus area is City of Johns Creek as per the calling for the last two years, where we have been led to plant a church in the John’s Creek area with the encouragement of several Un-churched Indian immigrant families in that area.

The City of Johns Creek, Georgia, is the 10th largest city in Georgia with nationally-ranked schools; consistently ranked the safest city in Georgia; ranks high in cultural diversity (25% international population); has premiere municipal services, and abundant golf, tennis, and swim opportunities.
 
Johns Creek is the 9th Most Diverse Small City in the U.S. (2017, Niche.com). Johns Creek is only one of two cities in the nation ranked in the top 10 that is not a suburb of New York City or Washington, D.C.

Forsyth County registered the fastest growing Asian population in the state from 785 in 2000 to 10,295 in 2010 with an impressive 1,291.7% increase.

Asians tends to live in Atlanta (13,188) and the northern suburbs of Johns Creek City (17,925), Alpharetta (7,690) and Duluth (5,920).

“If you look at the momentum that we’re on right now, the biggest growth would be the Indian community in our community,” said Long, who earned a master’s degree in demography. “One thing ARC points out here is it is a very highly-educated group that is moving in.”

“The majority of them are in IT,” Sharma said. “They’re coming on [H-1B visas, which allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialty positions] or [L-1 visas for managerial, executive or specialized knowledge], then applying for their green cards and then settling here.”