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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:
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.*
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(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).