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      WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON NOVEMBER 15, 2006</font></div>
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      D.C. 20549</font></div>
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      S-8</strong></font></div>
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      STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></div>
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      FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.</strong></font></div>
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      name of registrant as specified in its charter)</font></div>
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      North Glynn Street, Suite B</strong></font></div>
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      Georgia 30214</strong></font></div>
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      461-2781</strong></font><br></div>
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      including zip code and telephone number, including area code, </font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">of
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      Financial Group, Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan</strong></font><br></div>
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                J. Hertha</strong></font></div>
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                Financial Officer</strong></font></div>
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                D. Klingler, Esq.</strong></font></div>
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                Financial Group, Inc.</strong></font></div>
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                Goldstein LLP</strong></font></div>
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              <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><strong>600
                North Glynn Street, Suite B</strong></font></div>
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                Atlantic Center, Fourteenth Floor</strong></font></div>
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                West Peachtree Street, NW</strong></font></div>
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                461-2781</strong></font></div>
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                Georgia 30309-3488</strong></font></div>
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                572-6600</strong></font></div>
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      address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of
      agent
      for service)</font></div>
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              <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center">&#160;&#160;<strong><font size="2">CALCULATION
                OF REGISTRATION
                FEE</font></strong></div>
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                of Each Class</strong></font></div>
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                Securities to Be Registered</strong></font></div>
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                to Be</strong></font></div>
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                Maximum</strong></font></div>
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                Price</strong></font></div>
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                Share</strong></font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><sup><strong>(2)</strong></sup></font></div>
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                Maximum</strong></font></div>
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                Offering</strong></font></div>
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                of</strong></font></div>
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                Fee</strong></font></div>
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              <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Common
                Stock, no par value stated </font></div>
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              <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">549,000
                shares</font></div>
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              <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">$24.74</font></div>
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              <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">(1)</font></div>
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              <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Includes
                an indeterminate number of additional shares that may be issued to
                adjust
                the number of shares issued pursuant to the employee benefit plan
                described herein as the result of any future stock split, stock dividend
                or similar adjustment of the Registrant&#8217;s outstanding common
                stock.</font></div>
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                to Rule 457(c), the proposed maximum offering price and registration
                fee
                are based upon the average of the bid and asked prices of the common
                stock
                on the over the counter market on November 10,
                2006.</font></div>
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                aggregate offering price is calculated solely for the purpose of
                determining the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1) under
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                Securities Act of 1933, as amended.</font></div>
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      information. SouthCrest incorporates by reference the documents listed below
      and
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                Form 8-A filed with the SEC on May 2,
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      documents. You should direct any requests for documents to Douglas J. Hertha,
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      30214, telephone (770) 461-2781. </font></div>
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      liabilities. Directors and officers may be indemnified against expenses if
      they
      acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in or not opposed
      to the best interest of the corporation, if they have not been adjudged liable
      on the basis of the improper receipt of a personal benefit and, with respect
      to
      any criminal action, if they had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct
      was unlawful. A director or officer may be indemnified against expenses incurred
      in connection with a derivative suit if he or she acted in good faith and in
      a
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      corporation, except that no indemnification may be made without court approval
      if such person was adjudged liable for negligence or misconduct in the
      performance of his or her duty to the corporation. Statutory indemnification
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      officers of SouthCrest will be indemnified against expenses reasonably incurred
      by them if they are successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of
      any
      proceeding or any claim, issue or matter involved in the proceeding. The
      indemnification provisions also provide that SouthCrest will indemnify directors
      and officers when they meet the applicable standard of conduct, regardless
      if
      they are successful in the defense of the proceeding or claim, issue or matter.
      The applicable standard of conduct is met if the director or officer acted
      in
      good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not
      opposed to, the best interests of SouthCrest, and with respect to an employee
      benefit plan, for a purpose the director believed in good faith to be in the
      interests of the participants and beneficiaries of the plan. The standard of
      conduct with respect to any criminal action or proceeding is met if the director
      had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. Whether
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      Directors, the stockholders or independent legal counsel in each specific
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      not, however, indemnify a director for liability arising out of circumstances
      that constitute exceptions to limitation of a director&#8217;s liability for monetary
      damages, as described below. SouthCrest may purchase and maintain insurance
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      incurred by him or her in any such capacity, whether or not SouthCrest would
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      advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such
      indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act
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      against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
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      registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
      has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
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      exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
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      and agents, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
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Southcrest Financial Group S-8 11-15-2006
AS
      FILED
      WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON NOVEMBER 15, 2006
REGISTRATION
      NO. 333-_________
SECURITIES
      AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
      D.C. 20549
______________
FORM
      S-8
REGISTRATION
      STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
______________
SOUTHCREST
      FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
(Exact
      name of registrant as specified in its charter)
______________
GEORGIA
58-2256460
(State
                or other jurisdiction of incorporation or
                organization)
(IRS
                Employer Identification
                Number)
______________
600
      North Glynn Street, Suite B
Fayetteville,
      Georgia 30214
(770)
      461-2781
(Address,
      including zip code and telephone number, including area code,
of
      registrant's principal executive offices)
______________
SouthCrest
      Financial Group, Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan
(Full
      title of plan)
______________
Douglas
                J. Hertha
with
                copy to:
Chief
                Financial Officer
Robert
                D. Klingler, Esq.
SouthCrest
                Financial Group, Inc.
Powell
                Goldstein LLP
600
                North Glynn Street, Suite B
One
                Atlantic Center, Fourteenth Floor
Fayetteville,
                Georgia 30214
1201
                West Peachtree Street, NW
(770)
                461-2781
Atlanta,
                Georgia 30309-3488
(404)
                572-6600
(Name,
      address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of
      agent
      for service)
______________
CALCULATION
                OF REGISTRATION
                FEE
Title
                of Each Class
of
                Securities to Be Registered
Amount
                to Be
Registered
(1)
Proposed
                Maximum
Offering
                Price
Per
                Share
(2)
Proposed
                Maximum
Aggregate
                Offering
Price
(2)(3)
Amount
                of
Registration
                Fee
Common
                Stock, no par value stated
549,000
                shares
$24.74
$13,582,260
$1,454
(1)
Includes
                an indeterminate number of additional shares that may be issued to
                adjust
                the number of shares issued pursuant to the employee benefit plan
                described herein as the result of any future stock split, stock dividend
                or similar adjustment of the Registrant's outstanding common
                stock.
(2)
Pursuant
                to Rule 457(c), the proposed maximum offering price and registration
                fee
                are based upon the average of the bid and asked prices of the common
                stock
                on the over the counter market on November 10,
                2006.
(3)
The
                aggregate offering price is calculated solely for the purpose of
                determining the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1) under
                the
                Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
PART
      I
INFORMATION
      REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The
      documents containing the information specified in Part I of the
      instructions to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 will be sent or
      given to participants in the Plan as required by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated
      under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
      Act").
PART
      II
INFORMATION
      REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
                3.
Incorporation
                of Documents by Reference
.
The
      information incorporated by reference is considered to be a part of this
      prospectus, and information that SouthCrest files with the SEC subsequent to
      the
      date of this prospectus will automatically update and supersede this
      information. SouthCrest incorporates by reference the documents listed below
      and
      any future filings made with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d)
      of
      the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, until the filing of a
      post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been
      sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold.
The
      following documents SouthCrest has filed with the SEC are incorporated by
      reference in this prospectus:
1.
Annual
                Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31,
                2005;
2.
Quarterly
                Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31,
                2006;
3.
Quarterly
                Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2006;
4.
Quarterly
                Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30,
                2006;
5.
Current
                Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 16,
                2006;
6.
Current
                Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 6,
                2006;
7.
Description
                of SouthCrest's common stock set forth in its registration statement on
                Form 8-A filed with the SEC on May 2,
                2005.
SouthCrest
      will furnish without charge to you, on written or oral request, a copy of any
      or
      all of the documents incorporated by reference, including exhibits to these
      documents. You should direct any requests for documents to Douglas J. Hertha,
      Chief Financial Officer,
SouthCrest
      Financial Group, Inc., 600 North Glynn Street, Suite B, Fayetteville, Georgia
      30214, telephone (770) 461-2781.
Item
                4.
Description
                of Securities
.
Not
      applicable.
Item
                5.
Interest
                of Named Experts and Counsel
.
None.
Item
                6.
Indemnification
                of Directors and Officers.
Sections
      14-2-851 and 14-2-857 of the Georgia Business Corporation Code provides that
      a
      corporation may indemnify its directors and officers against civil and criminal
      liabilities. Directors and officers may be indemnified against expenses if
      they
      acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in or not opposed
      to the best interest of the corporation, if they have not been adjudged liable
      on the basis of the improper receipt of a personal benefit and, with respect
      to
      any criminal action, if they had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct
      was unlawful. A director or officer may be indemnified against expenses incurred
      in connection with a derivative suit if he or she acted in good faith and in
      a
      manner reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interest of
      the
      corporation, except that no indemnification may be made without court approval
      if such person was adjudged liable for negligence or misconduct in the
      performance of his or her duty to the corporation. Statutory indemnification
      is
      not exclusive of any rights provided by any bylaw, agreement, vote of
      stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.
SouthCrest's
      bylaws contain indemnification provisions that provide that directors and
      officers of SouthCrest will be indemnified against expenses reasonably incurred
      by them if they are successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of
      any
      proceeding or any claim, issue or matter involved in the proceeding. The
      indemnification provisions also provide that SouthCrest will indemnify directors
      and officers when they meet the applicable standard of conduct, regardless
      if
      they are successful in the defense of the proceeding or claim, issue or matter.
      The applicable standard of conduct is met if the director or officer acted
      in
      good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not
      opposed to, the best interests of SouthCrest, and with respect to an employee
      benefit plan, for a purpose the director believed in good faith to be in the
      interests of the participants and beneficiaries of the plan. The standard of
      conduct with respect to any criminal action or proceeding is met if the director
      had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. Whether
      the
      applicable standard of conduct has been met is determined by the Board of
      Directors, the stockholders or independent legal counsel in each specific
      case.
SouthCrest
      will also provide for greater indemnification than that set forth in its bylaws
      if such indemnification is approved by SouthCrest's stockholders. SouthCrest may
      not, however, indemnify a director for liability arising out of circumstances
      that constitute exceptions to limitation of a director's liability for monetary
      damages, as described below. SouthCrest may purchase and maintain insurance
      on
      behalf of any director against any liability asserted against such person and
      incurred by him or her in any such capacity, whether or not SouthCrest would
      have had the power to indemnify against such liability.
In
      addition, Article 9 of SouthCrest's Articles of Incorporation, subject to
      certain exceptions, eliminates the potential personal liability of a director
      for monetary damages to SouthCrest and to the stockholders of SouthCrest for
      breach of a duty as a director. There is no elimination of liability for:
(a)
a
                breach of duty involving appropriation of a business opportunity
                of
                SouthCrest;
(b)
an
                act or omission not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct
                or a
                knowing violation of law;
(c)
a
                transaction from which the director derives an improper material
                tangible
                personal benefit; or
(d)
as
                to any payment of a dividend or approval of a stock repurchase that
                is
                illegal under the Georgia Business Corporation
                Code.
The
      Articles of Incorporation do not eliminate or limit the right of SouthCrest
      or
      its stockholders to seek injunctive or other equitable relief not involving
      monetary damages.
Insofar
      as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
      permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Registrant pursuant
      to the foregoing provisions, the Registrant has been informed that in the
      opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
      expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.
Item
                7.
Exemption
                From Registration Claimed.
The
      Company has previously issued options to purchase an aggregate of 149,000 shares
      of the Company's common stock under the SouthCrest Financial Group, Inc. 2005
      Stock Incentive Plan to three executive officers of the Company pursuant to
      Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Regulation D and Rule 506 promulgated
      under the Securities Act.
Item
                8.
Exhibits.
The
      following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated by reference into this
      Registration Statement pursuant to Item 601 of Regulation S-K:
Exhibit
Number
Description
5.1
Opinion
                of Powell Goldstein LLP.
23.1
Consent
                of Dixon Hughes PLLC
23.2
Consent
                of Mauldin & Jenkins, LLC.
23.3
Consent
                of Powell Goldstein LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power
                of Attorney (included on Signature
                Page).
Item
                9.
Undertakings.
The
      undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1)
To
      file,
      during any period in which offers or sales are being made of the securities
      registered hereby, a post-effective amendment to this registration
      statement:
(i)
To
                include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities
                Act
                of 1933;
(ii)
To
                reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective
                date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
                amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent
                a
                fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration
                statement (notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease
                in the
                volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities
                offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation
                from
                the low or high and of the estimated maximum offering range may be
                reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to
                Rule
                424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent
                no
                more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price
                set
                forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective
                registration statement); and
(iii)
To
                include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution
                not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material
                change to such information in the registration
                statement;
provided,
      however, that the undertakings set forth in subparagraphs (i) and (ii) above
      do
      not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective
      amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or
      furnished to the SEC by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
      Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this registration
      statement.
(2)
That,
      for
      the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933,
      each
      such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
      relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
      at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof;
      and
(3)
To
      remove
      from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities
      being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
      offering.
The
      undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining
      any
      liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant's annual
      report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
      Act
      of 1934, as amended (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
      plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
      incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to
      be a
      new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
      the
      offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
      bona
      fide offering thereof.
Insofar
      as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933
      may
      be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant
      pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been
      advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such
      indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act
      and
      is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
      against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
      incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant
      in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by
      such
      director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
      registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
      has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
      jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
      policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
      adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
      to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies
      that
      it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
      for
      filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed
      on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of
      Thomaston, State of Georgia, on this the 15
th
day of
      November, 2006.
SOUTHCREST
                FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
By:
/s/ 
                Douglas J. Hertha
Douglas
                J. Hertha
Chief
                Financial Officer
POWER
      OF ATTORNEY
KNOW
      ALL
      MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
      constitutes and appoints each of Daniel W. Brinks, Douglas J. Hertha and Larry
      T. Kuglar as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power
      of
      substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead,
      in
      any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
      amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all
      exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
      Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each of said attorneys-in-fact
      and agents, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
      thing required or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully
      to
      all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying
      and
      confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their
      substitutes, could lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
      hereof.
Pursuant
      to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has
      been
      signed below on November 15, 2006 by the following persons in the capacities
      indicated.
/s/
                Daniel W. Brinks
Chairman
                of the Board and
Daniel
                W. Brinks
Chief
                Operating Officer
/s/
                Larry T. Kuglar
President,
                Chief Executive Officer and
Larry
                T. Kuglar
Director
                (principal executive officer)
/s/
                Douglas J. Hertha
Chief
                Financial Officer (principal financial and
Douglas
                J. Hertha
accounting
                officer)
/s/
                Richard T. Bridges
Director
Richard
                T. Bridges
Director
Harvey
                N. Clapp
/s/
              Robert P. Cravey
Director
Robert P.
              Cravey
/s/
                Zack D. Cravey
Director
Zack
                D. Cravey, Jr.
/s/
                Michael D. McRae
Director
Michael
                D. McRae
/s/
                Warren Patrick
Director
Warren
                Patrick
Director
Edmund
                J. Wall
Director
Harold
                W. Wyatt, Jr.
EXHIBIT
      INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Description
5.1
Opinion
                of Powell Goldstein LLP.
23.1
Consent
                of Dixon Hughes PLLC
23.2
Consent
                of Mauldin & Jenkins, LLC.
23.3
Consent
                of Powell Goldstein LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power
                of Attorney (included on Signature
                Page).