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HARPER PAUL WILLIAMS Alpharetta...
Linebacker Eric Schultz, fresh out of Alpharetta, Ga., remembers wondering what he’d gotten himself into...
...11” and 215 lbs., the Alpharetta, Ga., native was considered too small by many of the top-flight Division I-A programs...
...Promise Keepers stadium revival inspired him to begin Bible-study groups at the bank he ran in Minnesota. When the bank was sold in 1998, Skow decided to open a Christian bank. He and his wife researched 122 high-growth markets and came down to Las Vegas and Alpharetta, Ga. They chose Georgia. "I didn't want to go to Sin City, but it's too bad now when I think of it," says Skow. "It probably would have been a good choice to convert a lot of people." He raised $10 million in capital and opened in November...
Skow begins every business day praying with the top officers at his Integrity Bank. At the main branch in Alpharetta, a wood carving of the Prayer of Jabez hangs over the entryway, and Bibles are stacked up in the boardroom. But to attract customers, Integrity doesn't rely on prayer alone; it offers higher-than-average interest rates on CDs and checking accounts and reimburses atm fees charged by other banks. Some 10% of the bank's real estate loans are to churches--which don't get a special deal. Integrity, with $590 million in assets under management, went public...