Archive for September 2011

 
 

What’s in an Abbey- Elijah, the Widow, and Her Dying Son

We’ll be continuing in our discussion of “What is an Abbey?” and this week’s discussion will spring out of 1 Kings 17, when Elijah leaves the busied life of the city for a hermit’s life and a life of interdependence with a frail widow and her dying son.  Come pray, sing, contribute to a discussion, and share in a meal/snacks.
Join us at our new location, 639 Dill Ave SW from 5-7pm.  Parking is in the gravel lot just east of the building on Dill.

September 21st, 2011 | Worship This Sunday | 0 Comments

What’s in an Abbey- Carl McColman will speak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Sunday:

Carl McColman, author of The Big Book of Christian Mysticism and friend of the Atlanta Emergent Cohort will be talking about St.Benedict and the development of Monastic practices.  This continuation in our series, “Whats in an Abbey” will be an opportunity to learn through song, prayer and conversation.  We’ll wrap up with shared snacks.  You can lean more about Carl at http://anamchara.com/
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Join us at our new location, 639 Dill Ave SW from 5-7pm.  Parking is in the gravel lot just east of the building on Dill.

September 16th, 2011 | Worship This Sunday | 0 Comments

House in the Park | Sunday September 4

This sunday we’ll join our neighborhood for a huge event in Perkerson Park.  Ramone Guyton (Raw-Soul) has been bringing together some of the east coasts best House Music DJs on Labor Day weekend for years now. Its an extraordinary time to meet fun loving, family friendly, creative folks from our city and beyond.

We’ll have a table set up with place for food, we’ll grill hot dogs, we’ll have coolers for drinks of all sorts.  Bring something to share.  Parking gets crazy so if you want to carry stuff bring a wagon.  We set up near the community center and playgrounds.  The event runs from 4-8.  Here’s a link to more details:

September 1st, 2011 | Worship This Sunday | 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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