 The church pews and ministers podium in the movie were taken from  St. Pauls United Methodist Church in Atlanta and moved into a  church in Senoia Georgia (the white one with the turret used in the  exterior scenes). The ministers office, kitchen and the rehearsal  space thats not the choir loft where they perform was filmed in the  Atlanta church. St. Pauls used the money for allowing filming in  the church to add air conditioning to the sanctuary.