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Community Assistance
Center (CAC)
An organization that helps neighbors
in crisis is the Community Assistance
Center (CAC). The CAC began serving
the community in the 1980s with
clothing and food donations for
community members in need, initiated
by five local religious organizations.
Today, there are four locations and an
upscale thrift shop that make possible
the humanitarian services, including
food pantries, youth programs, adult
education, financial assistance, tax
preparation, and a new career center,
with an ultimate goal of preventing
hunger and homelessness. CAC has
helped more than 20,000 families in
the area, and in 2021, more than 850
families in the Dunwoody area were
Spiritual
Spiritual
St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church saved from eviction.

Dunwoody’s
Spectrum Religious Breakdown

Hinduism, Buddhism
& other Eastern Faiths
1.0%
Nearly half of Dunwoody’s residents are affiliated
with a church, parish, synagogue, temple, mosque, Jewish 1.0%
or other congregation, in a landscape of diverse
spiritual offerings. Islam 1.9% Baptist
Other 10.0%
he first congregation Masjid Uthman is an Islamic Christian
in this area established mosque that also operates a 11.6%
Ebenezer Primitive Baptist monthly food drive that aids Catholic
T Church in 1829. Its original refugees in Atlanta. 9.8%
location was across the street Lutheran 0.4%
All Saints Catholic Church
from its current home of worship
for more than 40 years has Methodist
on Roberts Drive. Ebenezer was LDS 0.4%
provided its members, both 5.8%
commandeered as a Union Army
newer and longtime parishioners,
Hospital during the Civil War, Presbyterian 3.2%
with opportunities to grow in
and its cemetery holds both Union Pentecostal 2.0%
their Catholic faith.
and Confederate soldiers. Episcopalian 1.0%
Temple Emanu-El is a sacred These are just examples Source: Sperling’s Best Places
space for Jews by birth, by choice, of the variety of worship
and interfaith families, founded congregations Dunwoody
in 1978. residents can choose from.
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