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Summer 2011

The Abbey is entering into the summer with excitement about moving into our first worship space outside of homes.  We expect the fall to be filled with opportunities to serve in mentorships, community development, small group studies and discussions, and to design worship as a group.  We appreciate the partnerships that heve been built along the way and are grateful for your financial contributions.  For more details, contact troy@neighborsabbey.org.

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For the remainder of 2011 we will be under the fiscal agency of our founding partner, the Presbtery of Greater Atlanta. In January of 2012 your nonprofit donation will be managed separately from the presbytery. Until then, please send a check (or set up autopay from your bank) to:

Neighbors Abbey
c/o Presbytery of Greater Atlanta
1024 Ponce de Leon Avenue
Atlanta, GA, 30306-4216
attn: Gwen Hairston

Or you can give now, online, with an electronic check or credit card to 24/7 Ministries (also tax deductible, but your receipt will come from Good Shepherd Bank and read, “24/7 Ministries for Neighbors Abbey”).

With both options, the gifts go directly to the work and ministry of Neighbors Abbey.*

 

 

Christmas 2010

We are entering our third official year in January, 2011!  The leadership of the Abbey have been co-leading house church gatherings for  more than 30 months now.  We’ve had more than 100 participants, have built an after school program with 30 participants, and have held larger group events with more than 300 attendees.  2011 will be a challenging year for worship planning as we seek how to move past house church and widen the invitation to the rest of our city. It will also bring a time of strategic growth in our outreach programs.

Give now, online

(Click above, to be taken away from the Neighbors Abbey site to donate).

*(a 5 percent fee is charged by 24/7 for their administrative fees, charges are deducted from the amount 24/7 Ministries receives by the credit card processor when a donation is paid by credit card. More details here).

Big-small/near-far 2009-2010 campaign

We are hoping to build a testimony to the connections that the Spirit of God builds between emerging entrepreneurial ministries of this sort by asking 200 people to give $10 a month in 2010 for Neighbors Abbey’s ministry in SW Atlanta. You can give it all in a year-end 2009 donation, or through monthly donations of $10. If we meet the goal of 200 people we will have seen God provide $24,000, roughly a third of our budget, through small gifts from folks in SW Atlanta, Metro Atlanta, around the US, and the wider world.

Neighbors Abbey is entering its second year in 2010.  Last year we reached more than 100 different people in Atlanta and have established a leadership core of 12, hired a children’s  ministry intern, organized city-wide prayer events, contracted with a community psychologist to facilitate community development meetings, and have prepared a mentoring program with girls in our local  inner-city middle school set to launch in January.  We run on a tight budget, our pastor is part time, and we currently meet in neighborhood houses. Next year we anticipate finding regular public spaces for meeting.  The budget for 2010 is $75,000.  We’re grateful to have already received $27,000 in Presbyterian Church (USA) grants for the year, and anticipate pledges around $18,000 from Abbey participants.  We’ll go into the new year with at least $6,000 in savings from 2009, and so we have a goal to meet the remaining $24,000 through relationships to 200 everyday folks like you.

Neighbors Abbey is a New Church Development of the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta. While the Presbytery acts as our 501c3 fiscal agent, they do not currently offer online giving. Your tax deductible gift can either be mailed to:

Neighbors Abbey
c/o Presbytery of Greater Atlanta
1024 Ponce de Leon Avenue
Atlanta, GA, 30306-4216
attn: Gwen Hairston

Or you can give now, online with an electronic check or credit card to 24/7 Ministries (also tax deductible, but your receipt will come from Good Shepherd Bank and read, “24/7 Ministries for Neighbors Abbey”).

With both options, the gifts go directly to the work and ministry of Neighbors Abbey.*

Give now, online

(Click above, to be taken away from the Neighbors Abbey site to donate).

*(a 5 percent fee is charged by 24/7 for their administrative fees, charges are deducted from the amount 24/7 Ministries receives by the credit card processor when a donation is paid by credit card. More details here).


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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