Margin

Margin

By Shawn McHargue; friend of REMERGE and Co-Founder and Lead Technical Instructor at the Automotive Training Center.     The words that come to mind when I explain how my life feels these days are; light, full, and free. And I love it!   But my life would never have been described like that in the past…I […]

We belong to one another…

We belong to one another…

By Michelle Witherspoon, South Atlanta Community Facilitator   We belong to one another… This picture was a gift to me on Valentine’s day this year from one of our youth group leaders. It hangs on my wall as a beautiful reminder that we belong to one another here. Growing up in a rural part of […]

We are family

We are family

By Christy Carr Betz, Director of the Giving Grace program of REMERGE.   The community of REMERGE has blessed my life so much. When I first started my journey to joining my life with those on the margins I was very timid at even interacting with people that have now become my friends. I would […]

I got this

I got this

By Dan Crain; REMERGE Pastor and Connector   We’ve been in our beautiful neighborhood, South Atlanta for almost seven years now. Six years ago a close personal friend that mentored us into the work we are doing suggested I read Pete Scazzero’s book; Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. I am not sure why he recommended I read […]

Loving Freely – I receive that

Loving Freely – I receive that

By Dan Crain; Pastor and connector within the REMERGE community from the Loving Freely content.   Best friends can be instigators. Best friends are supposed to play pranks on each other. At least this was the case fifteen years ago with my best friend from college, Mark. I flew into Grand Rapids, MI to spend […]

The three-mile an hour God

The three-mile an hour God

By Dan Crain   Seven years ago when we moved to Atlanta to join Christ in his work in the reconciliation of all things, a veteran of ministry, Dale Cross suggested I read a book; “Three Mile an Hour God” by Kosuke-Koyoma. Dale was instrumental with FCS of developing the Community Chaplain program that was […]

I Was Just Tired

I Was Just Tired

By Sylvia Broome; REMERGE Community Facilitator. You can reach Sylvia at: sylvia@remerge.org     My friends are an interracial couple with two beautiful daughters.  The other night they asked me to babysit their daughters.  It was the first time I ever had babysat them and I felt honored.  It’s a beautiful thing to be entrusted […]

Welcoming the stranger and joining lives

Welcoming the stranger and joining lives

  By; Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator     The other day our REMERGE Art was meeting at Krispy Kreme, our place of choice during cold and rainy weather.  We were enjoying donuts and hot coffee, sharing stories and coloring in the ArtAtl coloring books given to us by William Massey, our staff art […]

Loving Freely

Loving Freely

LAST YEAR, DAN CRAIN HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SPEAKING AT DESIRE STREET’S “THRIVING LEADERS SERIES”   HTTP://WWW.DESIRESTREET.ORG/PARTNERS/THRIVING-LEADERS-SERIES/ . HE SPOKE ON A TOPIC CALLED THE “UNDERBELLY OF SERVICE: WHY THE FALSE SELF PLAGUES SO MANY MINISTRIES.” YOU CAN WATCH THE PRESENTATION HERE: HTTPS://VIMEO.COM/219781733 THIS IS A BLOG SERIES BASED ON THE CONTENT HE PRESENTED AT THIS WORKSHOP. WE […]

Receiving from Larry

Receiving from Larry

By Dan Crain; Community Facilitator in the South Atlanta neighborhood in Atlanta, GA.    Friday night, March 24th, 2017 will be forever etched in my memory. It was the night my mom went into the hospital and spent two days in a coma. It shook our family to the core at the thought of what […]