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…

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…

By Christy Carr Betz, Director of the Giving Grace program of REMERGE.   The community of REMERGE has blessed my life so much. When I…

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…

By Dan Crain; Pastor and connector within the REMERGE community from the Loving Freely content.   Best friends can be instigators. Best friends are supposed…

By Dan Crain   Seven years ago when we moved to Atlanta to join Christ in his work in the reconciliation of all things, a…

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…

  By; Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator     The other day our REMERGE Art was meeting at Krispy Kreme, our place of choice…

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…

By Dan Crain; Community Facilitator in the South Atlanta neighborhood in Atlanta, GA.    Friday night, March 24th, 2017 will be forever etched in my…

BACK IN MARCH, 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…

By Allen Hoskyn, Community Facilitator in Lawrenceville, GA. “I know now that I have to speak from eternity into time” (Henri Nouwen) Last Friday I…

RECENTLY DAN CRAIN HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SPEAKING AT DESIRE STREET’S “THRIVING LEADERS SERIES”   HTTP://WWW.DESIRESTREET.ORG/PARTNERS/THRIVING-LEADERS-SERIES/ ON A TOPIC CALLED THE “UNDERBELLY OF SERVICE: WHY THE…

By Dan Crain, South Atlanta Community Facilitator – RETHINK Trainer   During a lunch appointment with two fellow co-laborers in Christ we were talking about…

By Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator   The sun is shining through the cracked and dirty window of the shelter.  It’s 6:00am and I’m…

RECENTLY DAN CRAIN HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SPEAKING AT DESIRE STREET’S “THRIVING LEADERS SERIES”   HTTP://WWW.DESIRESTREET.ORG/PARTNERS/THRIVING-LEADERS-SERIES/ ON A TOPIC CALLED THE “UNDERBELLY OF SERVICE: WHY THE…

Below is an email that Leroy Lamar from Serenity’s Steps wrote recently to his supporters about Nikki Reeves, an amazing woman who now works with…

By Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator   A few weeks ago, one of the women in our ministry called with an emergency.  It truly…

By Dan Crain, South Atlanta Community Facilitator   Last year after some intense incidents in our neighborhood a group of neighbors had the idea of…

RECENTLY DAN CRAIN HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SPEAKING AT DESIRE STREET’S “THRIVING LEADERS SERIES”   HTTP://WWW.DESIRESTREET.ORG/PARTNERS/THRIVING-LEADERS-SERIES/ ON A TOPIC CALLED THE “UNDERBELLY OF SERVICE: WHY THE…

Recently Dan Crain had the privilege of speaking at Desire Street’s “Thriving Leaders Series”   http://www.desirestreet.org/partners/thriving-leaders-series/ on a topic called the “Underbelly of Service: Why the…

By Dan Crain, Pastor of Spiritual Formation at REMERGE       Everyone in their right mind is condemning what happened in Charlottesville, VA. White…

From Dan Crain, REMERGE Trainer/Pastor   What does reconciliation mean?   It seems as if the word reconciliation is the latest buzzword in church circles…

By Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator   I’ve been spending a lot of time in hospitals and clinics lately, visiting jails, searching for places to…

Recently Dan Crain had the privilege of speaking at Desire Street’s “Thriving Leaders Series”   http://www.desirestreet.org/partners/thriving-leaders-series/ on a topic called the “Underbelly of Service: Why the…

By Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator   I was enjoying time with a friend the other day at a local coffee shop when I…

THIS IS THE FINAL BLOG IN A SERIES OF TEN BY SOUTH ATLANTA COMMUNITY FACILITATOR, DAN CRAIN FROM A MINI-BOOK CALLED, “CAN YOU HELP ME?…

This is the ninth blog in a series of ten by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help me?…

This is the eighth blog in a series of ten by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help me?…

This is the seventh blog in a series of ten by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help me?…

By Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator   I am often asked the question, “What do you do at Church on the Street (now REMERGE)?”  …

This is the sixth blog in a series of ten by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help me?…

This is the fifth blog in a series of ten (yes ten) by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you…

This is the third blog in a series of ten (yes ten) by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you…

This is the third blog in a series of ten (yes ten) by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you…

This is the second blog in a series of ten (yes ten) by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help…

This is the first blog in a series of ten (yes ten) by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you…

By Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator   It was December 26, a gray and rainy day.   I’m out and about, running errands in a…

By Dan Crain, South Atlanta Community Facilitator How do we know reconciliation is happening? One indicator is that you make decisions “with” those on the…

By Allen Hoskyn, a member of our team of reconcilers in Lawrenceville, GA and the Director of Impact 46 an organization committed to transforming cities into…

By Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator  (adapted from a talk Sylvia did at the Reimagining Homelessness Conference)   God is reconciling the world unto himself.…

Our Community of Reconcilers continues to grow! Welcome to the Board of Directors to Paul Hamalian and Ken Thompson. Meet Paul: Paul is the Senior…

By; Michelle Witherspoon, South Atlanta Community Facilitator Wednesday Night Youth Group in South Atlanta…. At REMERGE we don’t run programs, we facilitate community that welcomes…

We decided to gather together a group of folks who are living their lives through the defining lens of reconciliation. They are doing it in…

  By Dan Crain, South Atlanta Community Facilitator/Trainer   Having lived in a black community and sharing life with people of color for six years…

How do we know reconciliation with those on the margins is happening? At REMERGE, we are always using the language of “joining lives” with those…

By South Atlanta Community Facilitator-Trainer, Dan Crain I have wrestled with what the church should be in the world for over ten years now. I…

By Dan Crain, South Atlanta Community Facilitator/Trainer   There’s an underbelly of Christian ministry and service that we need to talk about. This underbelly is…

By Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator In the Central Atlanta neighborhood there is a big problem with litter.  Even with the few trashcans available,…

By Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator   Saturdays are big events in Central Atlanta near the Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter.  The area fills with good…

A few years ago I was a part of a really neat group of Jesus followers trying to develop a training to equip Christian neighbors…

By Larry Webb, Central Atlanta Community Member The third part in a series of blogs by Larry called, “The Bizzaro Bible”;   Now, if God…

By: Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator “What difference does it make?  As long as I have “mine”, what difference is it to me if…

By Dan Crain, South Atlanta Community Facilitator/Pastor Dignified Interdependent Relationships What a weird sounding term. It loosely means to give and receive with Christ and…

(the second in a series of three blogs by Larry Webb)   Blessed. For the first fifty years of my life I thought the rich…

The Bizarro Bible: Larry Lee Webb 12/07/16 (the first blog in a three part series by Larry)   If you grew up reading DC comic…

By Dan Crain, South Atlanta Community Facilitator   A few years ago a good friend visited a community living out reconciliation with neighbors on the street…

By Anna Ferguson; Operations Guru for REMERGE   March 2016 I came to Atlanta to be part of an Immersion Workshop for what was then…

By Dan Crain, South Atlanta Community Facilitator   What happens when you share a meal with someone?   You are equals, and each person brings…

[Immediately after we rebranded Church on the Street as REMERGE a pastor friend and long time supporter emailed me and asked if I could “define…

By Malcolm Cox-el   Homeless….what comes to mind? Someone who you cannot see the divine? Not someone below the poverty line, Labels just gloss over what’s…

Be careful of the shrapnel by Dan Crain, South Atlanta Community Facilitator   Let me let you in a little secret for those seeking to…

Looks can be deceiving by Malcolm Cox-el, Community Facilitator of Thirkield University   Being a young black man in America can be hard at times.…

When I started working with Church on the Street five years ago the culture of the community was such that during prayer time I kept…

  By Sylvia Broome, Central ATL Community Facilitator   She sat on a wall in a park in downtown Atlanta crying, sweating and in pain.…

  Written by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Michelle Witherspoon   I’m a hustler. I’d like to say I’m a recovering hustler but more times than…

We value community. We value community because we believe it is a natural result of reconciliation in Christ. We also value community because we think…

[Last year Church on the Street accepted an invitation to assist the Pleasant Hill neighborhood of Macon, GA to organize and build community. Since then…

Toward the end of the day there were about 10-15 core members of the community hanging out. Because Church on the Street has just begun…

2015 is off to a flying start and we’ve got a couple of new things up our sleeve for the new year.  Here’s a sneak peak at…

Last May Elliot issued a challenge to the friends and supporters of Church on the Street. He had been out of work so he pledged…

I received a letter from a member of our community that has been “on vacation” for a few months. He is doing fantastic and learning…

At our luncheon last Saturday we showed this video of several members in the community sharing about what Church on the Street means to them.…

365 days a year the homeless are left on the streets lonely, isolated and exposed.(approximately 14,000 in Atlanta) 365 days a year the mentally ill…

[I originally wrote this post at the request of a partner church of ours. They asked if I would write a short blog giving people…

Our vision at Church on the Street is to be an intentional and diverse Christian community where everyone is welcome, belongs and finds their place…

Jim Beaty, whose wife is the executive director for the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, writes his own blog.  Last week he posted…

We have just received word that we will be incurring a monthly $2000 fee to continue operating in our current facility. Historically we have been able to…

[We are starting a series of blogs simply intended to narrate life with/as the vulnerable in our neighborhood and community. This post is from Sylvia…

These past few months at Church on the Street have seen many exciting developments. God is doing something fantastic here and we want to share a bit…

After posting about my encounter with Fred I received this email from our friend Allison.  She was a member of our community when she attended…

Fred is socially awkward.  His personality disorder turns him inward, so he normally keeps to himself and doesn’t talk much.  Usually he has his nose buried…

Kim was part of our community for a short, but impactful time.  Here’s his story… I was passing through Atlanta when I met with an…

We are having an open house on Friday, Nov 2, 2012 from 3 to 6pm and Saturday, Nov 3 at 1pm.  Please come and join…

I think when most people think of homeless people, they think of men.  I’m not sure why, just the natural thought pattern I guess.  This…

It’s hard to explain what we do. We say that we are trying to live in community in such a way that our most vulnerable…