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Equipping The Abbey

The Abbey is a place for sinners, saints, and coffee. We need your help to get equipped and opened.

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Equipping The Abbey

Equipping The Abbey

Equipping The Abbey

Equipping The Abbey

Equipping The Abbey

The Abbey is a place for sinners, saints, and coffee. We need your help to get equipped and opened.

The Abbey is a place for sinners, saints, and coffee. We need your help to get equipped and opened.

The Abbey is a place for sinners, saints, and coffee. We need your help to get equipped and opened.

The Abbey is a place for sinners, saints, and coffee. We need your help to get equipped and opened.

Kelley Hudlow
Kelley Hudlow
Kelley Hudlow
Kelley Hudlow
2 Campaigns |
Birmingham, United States
$23,000 USD 130 backers
57% of $40,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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What is The Abbey?

It is a coffee shop and a church. The Abbey will provide great coffee, espresso, tea, baked goods, and light meal options. It will also be a place to hang out, a place of community, and a comfortable space to explore issues of faith and spirituality.

The Abbey is influenced by the tradition of many monks and nuns who took on various secular professions - teaching, nursing, crafting, and even brewing beer. Besides being a way for monastics to support themselves, these were also ways in which ordinary folks came into contact with religious life. The Abbey hopes to be a place to rediscover and reimagine the traditions of the Christian Church in order to make Christianity readily available to anyone who wants to engage with it.

The Abbey seeks to be a place open to all people. It is a place for believers, questioners, non-believers, and everyone in between. It is open to and welcoming of all people, beliefs, non-beliefs, and faith traditions. All are welcome regardless of race, ethnicity, faith tradition, class, age, political party, education, gender, marital status, physical or mental ability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. 

Here is what some folks have to say about worship at The Abbey:


What We Need

Through your enthusiasm we have a worshipping community that is gathering every Sunday. Now we need your help to raise the funds to get The Abbey built and open for business. Through our partnership with the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama via a loan, a generous grant from the National Episcopal Church, and fundraising efforts, we have raised the funds for the construction costs of $100,000. 

But now we need your help to raise the $40,000 to finish construction and purchase our equipment: an espresso machine, coffee makers, coolers, oven, cups, plates, flatware, all the things that will help us serve great coffee and food items.

We have some fun items to say thank you for your support. We are offering a free drink coupon that you can use on your visit to The Abbey, notecards from our Deacon, coffee sleeves, t-shirts, travel mugs and whole bean coffee, a naming opportunity, and even having The Abbey come to your parish to host coffee hour and Sunday school.

              

   

Ways You Can Help

We're so excited that you are here, and are even more excited to invite you to participate in making The Abbey a reality. Any donation, no matter the amount, will help us get our doors open. But there are lots of ways to help!

You can help by:

  • giving to this campaign
  • sending an e-mail to anyone you know who you think will want to help too
  • using the Indiegogo share tools to share about this campaign on Facebook and Twitter
  • writing or blogging about us with the link to this campaign
  • sending good vibes into the universe
  • keeping The Abbey in your prayers!

Want more info?

If you want more information about The Abbey and what we are up to, please check us out on our website: www.theabbeybham.com

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Choose your Perk

Drink Coupon

$20 USD
Receive a coupon for one (1) free small beverage of your choice.
9 out of 100 of claimed

Note Cards

$50 USD
For your gift you will receive three (3) note cards. The front of the cards have a linocut done by Deacon Kelley, which includes the phrase: "All I need today is a little coffee, and a whole lot of Jesus." Inside the card is blank. You will also received a coupon for one (1) free small beverage of your choice.
11 out of 30 of claimed

Coffee Sleeve

$100 USD
These reusable cloth coffee sleeves will save your fingers from getting burned by that hot cup of java. Each is handmade from a variety of fabrics. And so you remember where you got such an awesome thing, we have put The Abbey logo on it for you. You will also receive a coupon for one (1) free small beverage of your choice.
14 out of 40 of claimed

T-Shirt

$300 USD
Our stylish t-shirt is black in color. The front of the shirt has The Abbey logo. The back of the shirt says "Sinners. Saints. Coffee." We have limited amounts of sizes medium, large, and extra large. We will do our best to accommodate size request. You will also receive a coupon for one (1) free small beverage of your choice.
0 out of 10 of claimed

Whole Bean Coffee & Travel Mug

$500 USD
You will receive a bag of whole bean The Abbey Blend dark roast coffee from Red Bike Coffee roaster. You will also receive a The Abbey travel mug to carry that tasty brew with you.
1 out of 10 of claimed

Naming Opportunity

$1,000 USD
Do you have a way with words, or a bit of creativity? With this perk, you will have a chance to name a food or drink item on our menu. Items up for naming will be selected by The Abbey, and the name choice will be subject to the approval of The Abbey staff.
0 out of 10 of claimed

Coffee Hour

$5,000 USD
Would you like The Abbey to host your coffee hour? How about having our Vicar or Deacon teach your Sunday School? We will bring The Abbey to your Church for one Sunday. We will be happy to teach an adult Sunday School, and we will bring The Abbey blend coffee and some goodies and host your coffee hour. ***A parish must be located in the Diocese of Alabama.
0 out of 2 of claimed

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