Archive for August 2010

 
 

September 5 House in the Park

This is Labor Day weekend, which means Sunday is House in the Park.

DJs from around the East Coast come into our neighborhood’s own Perkerson Park from 12-8 to serve up free House Music.  The positive attitudes, fun, and opportunity to mix across race, religion and social groups is beautiful.

This is Neighbors Abbey’s second year as a sponsor of this great event for SW Atlanta.  Look for some of us around tables and on blankets near the playground at the top of the park.  We’ll have a cooler and grills, and everyone brings their own food and drink to share.  Go to the Facebook page for more details.

August 31st, 2010 | Happenings | 0 Comments

August 29 Acts 21 & 22

We continue studying the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.
During our next gathering, we’ll be discussing Acts 21 & 22.

Please comment here with a quote, poem, prayer, thought, etc. that you’d like us to share in our discussion on Sunday.

Also, please follow this link, and sign-up to help lead an aspect of worship.

And add the name of your potluck dish here.

August 30th, 2010 | Happenings | 0 Comments

August 22 Acts 19-20

We continue studying the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.

During our next gathering, we’ll be discussing Acts 19 & 20.

Please comment here with a quote, poem, prayer, thought, etc. that you’d like us to share in our discussion on Sunday.

Also, please follow this link, and sign-up to help lead an aspect of worship.

And add the name of your potluck dish here.

August 16th, 2010 | Happenings | 1 Comment

August 15 Acts 17 & 18

We continue studying the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.

During our next gathering, we’ll be discussing Acts 17 & 18.

Please comment here with a quote, poem, prayer, thought, etc. that you’d like us to share in our discussion on Sunday.

Also, please follow this link, and sign-up to help lead an aspect of worship.

And add the name of your potluck dish here.

August 11th, 2010 | Happenings | 0 Comments


About

The Abbey organized in the fall of 2008 on a neighborhood back porch with two commitments, exploring the way of Jesus for city folks, and seeking the growth of the community from within instead of from outside. Several of us had kids and we prayed that the girls we were raising and the girls walking the sidewalks as prostitutes would benefit together from our church's presence. Never one at the expense of the other.

We took on the language of the Abbey to communicate the historic tradition of orders of faith plopping down in the middle of a city and making "sanctuary"' for the wanderer and for the beautiful. We wanted our identity to be tied to this kind of posture and practice.

We took as our patron saint, the Good Samaritan, our Neighbor. He knew what is was like to be outside of religious groups. He was not the person the religious reader would have expected to act with God's desired compassion. And yet his "neighboring" became the exemplar in Jesus' tale told to the lawyer who wanted to be awarded life eternal for his doctrine or his behaviors.

Neighbors Abbey does not simply bring the dreams of God to SW Atlanta, we expect to learn them from neighbors who have already been participating in these ways. This is part of what it means for us to walk in Jesus' Way, its just what those early disciples and the lawyer and the neck-craning religious leaders would have run into walking along with Jesus.

Now we meet for meals, to help our neighbors, to pray, to discuss scripture, to design public performance art projects, to mentor youth, and many other things.

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