The first organizational meeting of our Church, then named St. Chrysostom's, was convened on September 19, 1978 with the Rt. Rev. C. Judson Child, Jr. presiding. Fifty people representing 27 families were present. A petition to organize as a mission was signed by the members and the first service was held at Whitley-Garner Funeral Chapel on October 22, 1978. When the vestry was formed, the first order of business was to choose a name for the congregation. Our name commemorated the consecration of the Rt. Rev. Bennett J. Sims, Bishop of the Atlanta Diocese, which took place on St. John Chrysostom's Day in January of 1972.

In the spring of 1979, a seven-acre plot was purchased on Stewart’s Mill Road to build a home for the new congregation. Members built a portable Altar and Processional Cross for our services; our Altar Guild chairwoman carried the Altar appointments in the trunk of her car. We have had three temporary homes, including the chapel at Whitley-Garner and the use of one of the rooms for a nursery and Sunday School. The Douglas County Retardation Association Work Center provided a place for worship services in their lunch room. During a fire at the center, one of the volunteer firemen, who was a church member and knew where we stored our Altar and supplies, rescued our things before the fire destroyed them. We then met at our picnic pavilion on the property. We brought our lawn chairs and held services there for about six weeks. Our next home was the old Bright Star United Methodist Church. After meeting there for a few years, we continued to grow and purchased two trailers for office and Sunday School space and then moved into our new church home in March of 1995.

Through the years, we have been blessed with much growth at St. Julian’s. We have been fortunate enough not only to have purchased our beautiful property and build a wonderful church, we have almost completed a grand addition that will more than double the size of our existing church building. Over the past 20 years, we have experienced a lot of different changes - from meeting in a funeral home and hunting for Easter eggs in a cemetery to building our permanent home and hunting those same eggs on the Church’s front lawn! We have come a long way.

Our congregation has grown from the original 27 families to over 200 families. In the early 1990's, we changed our name from St. Chrysostom’s to St. Julian's - some jokingly say because the old name was too difficult to say or, more importantly, write on a check. St. Julian's has emerged a vital and tenacious community eager for the mission of the Episcopal Church in Douglas County.

Our former priests include the Rev. Scott Ackerman, the Rev. Bill Kennedy, the Rev. Frank M. Ross, the Rev. Paul F. Gerlock, the Rev. George W. Holston, III, the Rev. Michael Milligan, the Rev. Lloyd Wells, the Rev. Samuel G. Miller, Jr. and the Very Rev. Richard H. Callaway, who was rector from 1991 until 2001 when he left to become Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of Atlanta.