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Fall 2017

The 2017 Annual Conference, 'Kingdom vs. Empire,' with speaker Joel Repic — and the dedication of May McKeown's memorial stone.

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2016–2017

Håkan Joëlson — environmental activist, Church of Sweden priest, and Community member from the England and Scotland years — spends a month back in Aliquippa.

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2015–2016

Two months on the Camino de Santiago: a Community member's pilgrimage trek across Spain to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela.

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2014–2015

Thirty years since the move from Scotland to Aliquippa — called to embed life and ministry among the urban poor after the steel industry's demise.

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Fall 2013

The Beauty of Holiness: a Community member's journey into iconography, from a first icon retreat in Boston to a new artistic vocation.

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Fall 2012

The garden as parable — a dry summer, warm southern rain, and the astonishment of eating the fruits of your labor.

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Fall 2011

After the 25th anniversary year: more ups and downs, visitors old and new, and a joy that runs deeper for being long-standing.

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Fall 2010

Twenty-five years in Aliquippa — 'we belong here.' Small, steady steps of revitalization on Franklin Avenue and the reminder of God's faithfulness.

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Fall 2009

The daily round of worship as touchstone: three times a day to the chapel, and the blessings God drops 'on the way.'

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Fall 2008

Toccoa Falls College students return for a fourth summer with Aliquippa Impact, mentoring at-risk children and sharing life in the Row Houses.

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Spring 2008

An early Easter and the promise of new life — remembering Granville Hawkes, former member and longtime Companion, who died at 79.

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Fall 2007

Re-establishing the still place after a busy summer of visitors, community events — and a dramatic flash flood on the fifth of July.

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Spring 2007

Looking forward with hope: spring arrives, the earth oven fires up for outdoor cooking, and lawn games return to Sunday afternoons.

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Fall 2006

A Harvest of Joys — tomatoes, carrots and Swiss chard from the All Saints House garden, flowers brightening the corner of Spring Street, and Franklin Avenue flourishing in more ways than one.

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Spring 2006

Winter full of promise: planning the summer conference, welcoming retreat inquiries, and Margaret-Love Denman's year of sabbatical in All Saints House.

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Fall 2005

Prayer and Presence: rowhouses rented to local families, a backyard full of children playing Kubb on summer evenings, and signs of hope on a street of urban depression.

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Spring 2005

The ACE Women's Training Project with John Stanley and the Church Army: new opportunities for Aliquippa neighbors, led by Alison Stanley with May McKeown.

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Fall 2004

The Wall Street Journal calls Aliquippa 'distressed' — and a Community member smiles, having just bought a house on Franklin Avenue. On hope taking root where statistics see only decline.

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Fall 2003

The Dedication of the Chapel of the Holy Spirit — 'the newest church in Christendom' — with Bishop Bill Folwell presiding and Abbot Basil Matthews preaching to family, friends, Companions and Partners in Ministry.

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Spring 2003

Eighteen years after moving from Scotland, 'time for this butterfly to emerge from its chrysalis' — how the Community's ministry of presence became a gift of hope to a town of lost dreams.

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December 2002

Setting a dedication date for the new chapel and community center — nine months out, before ground was even broken — plus the first Partners in Ministry gathering and A Day in the Life of Prayer in London.

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Fall 2002

An encouraging year of building: progress on the chapel project and a look back at the transformation of the Community's Aliquippa property, 1985–2002.

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