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Prayers for Rwanda Mission
Dear friends, Thank you for keeping our team of travelers in your prayers as we journey to Rwanda July 19 – July 29. We have specific prayer requests for: health throughout the trip for all group unity and a peaceable spirit no luggage complications open hearts to receive what the Lord has for us hearts […]
Ever Walking in his Sight
A Word from Canon Smalley from the July 23/30, 2017 Adventurer: One of the lovely collects for guidance included in our Morning Prayer service is the following: O heavenly Father, in whom we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray thee so to guide and govern us by thy Holy Spirit, that […]
Dean’s Bulletin Board 7.16.2017
Please be praying for me as I head to Sydney, Australia, to spend time at Moore Theological College, visit with friends (Phillip Jensen, Michael Jensen, et al), and preach (St. Mark’s, Darling Point). My hope is that we might develop a closer relationship with our friends there, but especially with Moore College. As an Anglican […]
Dean’s Bulletin Board 7.17.2017
This is something we are seeing here in the U.S. as well. To lose this genre would be a significant loss, not just musically, but theologically. At the Advent, we continue to have the services that the interviewee says are all but gone in England. And by God’s grace, we will continue to have. Even […]
An Experience Far Exceeding Our Expectations
Murray and I have been members of a few churches since getting married in 2003, and joined Advent when we returned to Birmingham in 2015. We were married and both of our boys were baptized at Independent Presbyterian, were very active at First Presbyterian when living in Atlanta, and joined Trinity Episcopal in Southport, Connecticut, […]
Equipping the Saints for Ministry
A Word from the Dean from the July 9/16, 2017 Adventurer A distinction can be made between clergy and laity that is unhelpful. No doubt the two have different functions, but are rarely seen as parts of a body working together. One, the roles can be crassly described as payer and provider: the laity pay […]
Women’s Retreat: Aug 25-27
All women of the Advent are invited to mark their calendars for the annual women’s retreat from August 25-27 at Children’s Harbor. Our speaker this year will be 2014 & 2017 Lenten preacher Lauren Larkin, and she will help us discover our Labors of Love: Work and Works on the Other Side of Faith. register […]
Grief Recovery
The Advent once again will host a six-week Grief Recovery Group, led by Craig Smalley and Gil Kracke, for Adventers who have recently experienced the death of a loved one: Tuesday evenings (7 to 8:30), from September 5 through October 10, at the Advent House (2317 Arlington Avenue South). To register or for more information, […]
Living Life Together Through Small Groups
We recently moved from Florida to Alabama, and after looking at one or two churches we decided to make the Advent our church home and family. But for it to feel like a family something was missing, and that was the friendship and community of fellow believers in a home group setting. We had belonged […]
Between Two Advents
A Word from Canon Hicks from the June 25/July 2, 2017 Adventurer I absolutely love our stained glass windows. Many who have been a part of the Advent for decades will tell you (and I think they’re right) that there’s a lifetime of reflection and depth in them. I was recently pondering the two big windows […]
June 11 Dean’s Class Audio: More on the Visioning Process
Leadership in the Storm: Keeping Your Eyes on the Call in the Midst of Distraction (Acts 27) Audio Link >>
VBS 2017 in Pictures
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Living in Our Post-Christian Society
From the June 11/June 18, 2017 Adventurer I have written and taught recently that, like the rest of the Western world, we in American society from the Golden Gate to the Bible Belt and everywhere in between no longer live in Christendom but a post-Christian society. Christendom was the notion that the collective majority of […]
New Summer Bible Study for Women: Take Your Pick (MORNING or EVENING)
Women’s Come-When-You-Can Summer Study This study will examine 2 Timothy using Beth Moore’s, Entrusted. Open to women of all ages, this six-week DVD study is offered in the morning and evening: Morning Session – Wednesdays beginning June 7, 9:15 – 10:45 a.m., Casa Menendez. The group will gather at the home of Jane Menendez (4221 Sharpsburg Drive, […]