Creating an ecosystem of blessing in Canton.

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Radical Hospitality

Spiritual Renewal

Cultural Innovation

An Abbey for Canton

Abbeys have a long and rich tradition, dating all the way back to 529AD. Historically, abbeys have been collections of buildings that serve two important purposes: spaces for community formation and centers of entrepreneurial work.

With the fundamental belief that all of life is sacred, abbeys exist as places of radical hospitality, spiritual renewal, and cultural innovation.

Rooted in this tradition, The Canton Abbey exists to embody and advance these same things—not through a set of buildings, but through a network of relationships committed to the cultivation of an ecosystem of blessing in and from the city of Canton.

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Events, Projects, & Initiatives

Events

Easter In The Streets

Reclaiming the heart of Easter and taking the resurrection to the street

The Power of Small

Join this collaborative learning seminar to learn & share about the power of cultivating smaller expressions of church.

Events

Common Life Church Collective

Churches, gathered around tables, learning to notice & nurture the love of God.

Initiatives

Stark CCDA

Pursuing wholistically flourishing communities throughout Stark County

Initiatives

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Easter In The Streets

On Sunday, April 12, 2020, all are invited to join in a gathering of praise and prayer as we create an Easter parade of cars, caravanning together on a fixed route throughout the city of Canton.

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The Power of Small

If you've been thinking about microchurch or how your existing church can shift to empower small groups for community impact, join teams from churches and organizations in NE Ohio on August 24, 9-noon for a collaborative learning seminar.

We'll dive into topics including:

Why choose small?
Mission and discipleship in the everyday rhythms of life (Everyone gets to play).
Starting kingdom works.
What about my day job?
What do we do with kids?
Recalibrating your church ecosystem to empower the small.
Multiplying groups, good works and microchurches.
And more...

Facilitators
Jack Radcliffe, Malone University
Brian Donahue, Pursuit Friends Church
Andy Sikora, Renew Communities

Doors Open/Check in: 8:30-9 am

Child care provided

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Common Life Church Collective

In Mark 12 Jesus was asked what the most important thing about life is.

He replied that the most important thing about life is learning to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself.

Taking Jesus as his word, the Common Life Church Collective endeavors to cultivate communities of people who are intent on sharing in common rhythms and practices that provide a way to live this out.

These communities, sometimes called microchurches because they embody all the essential features of church while intentionally remaining the size of extended families, ground their life together in rhythms of prayer, rest, study, and work and then seek to discern what their shared expressions and practices of worship, community, and mission will be.

Feel free to drop us a line if you're interested in visiting a common life church or in starting one of your own. We'd love to help!

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Stark CCDA

Together, we’re pursuing holistically flourishing communities throughout Stark County with the Body of Christ fully engaged in the process of transformation.

Stark CCDA was founded by the collaborative efforts of First Church of the Resurrection, First Mennonite, Radial Church, and Lighthouse Ministries.

To begin this work, these groups submitted and were awarded a planning grant from the Stark Community Foundation (The Polly Hoover Connelly and Lawrence E. Connelly, Jr. Fund & The William K. and Lotte E. Wilson Philanthropic Fund) in the summer of 2021.

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