Georgia Mission Collections will take place in all the churches of the archdiocese next Sunday, January 16.

This collection enables the archdiocese to maintain and finance churches and chapels in the developing areas of North Georgia.

One of the beneficiaries of the collection is the new parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Carrollton, Ga.

The church, dedicated in the spring of 1962 is a modern structure seating a total of about 300 persons.

The pastor is the Rev. Richard B. Morrow.

History of the church in the Carrollton area dates back to the late 1800’s when Mass was said in a school house in Budapest, Ga.

In those days worshipers knelt on bare kneelers, sat on homemade benches and on, wintry mornings huddled around a pot-bellied stove.

The structure still stands. History says that the parishioners at that time were Hungarians who migrated from the mining regions of Pennsylvania in 1893 and established themselves in the area, about four miles east of Tallapoosa, naming the settlement Budapest.

It is recorded that a Catholic priest, Father Francis Janishek, guided the development of this community.

Other groups from Ohio and various parts of the United States were attracted to this area and the new wine growing industry, in progress at that time.