The Historic Barn is part of a $6.5 million, 17,000 square foot Visitors Center project to accommodate the more than 70,000 visitors to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit. The project is about 20 percent completed and is slated to be finished around May 2011. For more on the Monastery, see "Tools of the Trade" on the stained glass work of Father Methodius.

Father Methodius and other representatives from the Monastery of the Holy Spirit will be speaking at the South Rockdale Civic Association meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 19, from 6:45 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. at Union United Methodist Church at the corner of Highway 138 and Union Church Road. The topic will be about the developments and plans involving the Monastery's new Visitors Center. For more information, call 770-474-9128