City Groups
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Renovation's City Groups are our primary means for mission, serving, community, discipleship, resourcing, accountability, mentoring, and training. All are welcome: followers of Jesus, seekers, doubters, and skeptics.
A City Group is not just a small group as we have come to define it in the south. It is not just a bible study, support meeting, social justice collaborative, or a weekly "get together." It can involve all of these, but it can’t stop there. The goal is to do life together intentionally and on mission. Each City Group owns the spiritual apathy, spiritual confusion, brokenness, needs, pains, hurts, struggles, and fears of the greater community that surrounds it because City Groups are the primary conduit for Renovation to engage and serve Atlanta in God’s reconciling work in the city.
There are three components of City Groups: 1) Gospel, 2) Mission, and 3) Community. Every group will lean toward and be stronger in one of these directions, but they should consistently fight to course correct and balance out these directional leanings. Traditionally the church has made the wrong issue central to its existence (i.e. community, social justice, care, insular needs etc.). Renovation is raising the issue of mission and solving it with the gospel in the context of community.
We must move beyond being told where and how to serve as we begin to do mission, to be present and invested in others' lives, making spiritual and cultural imprints where we live, work and hang. Being a part of God's family, living for His mission and in community is critical to being the church, rather than simply attending worship services. A Renovation City Group is a family of missionaries in Atlanta.
Our Communities
Groups typically gather on the following evenings, but neighborhood meetings and serving opportunities often fall on other days. Please email the group leaders listed below or connect with them on TheCity to confirm the schedule before attending.
Sundays
Decatur/Emory Community gathers from 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 at the home of Ben and Ashley Washer in Kirkwood. Contact Decatur/Emory leaders Lauren and Ethan Seifried for directions and details.
Central City - Grant Park Community gathers from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. at the home of Will and Liz Mott in Grant Park. Contact Central City Leaders Pastor Leonce and Breanna for details and directions.
Tuesdays
Northeast Community gathers from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the home of Matt and Abbie Doran. Contact leader Joey Franks for directions and details.
Midtown - West Community gathers from 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. at the home of Chad and Hope Kirkendall. Contact Midtown West leaders Copper and Magan Nelms for directions and details.
Wednesdays
Northwest Community gathers from 7:30-9:00pm at the Walton on the Chattahoochee apartment complex just inside the perimeter on Akers Mill Road, 6640 Akers Mill Road Atlanta, GA 30339 (next to the Akers Mill Road/Powers Ferry Road intersection). We rotate apartments from week to week so contact John "Dink" Evans for details or directions.
Westside Community gathers from 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at the home of John and Rachel Sherwood. Contact Westside leaders John and Rachael Sherwood for directions and details.
Thursdays
Central City - East Atlanta Community gathers from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the Moore home in Glenwood Park. Contact Central City East Leaders Nikeshia and Ralph Gordon for details and directions.
Midtown - East Community gathers from 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. at the home of Jon and Vanessa Evans, located on Argonne Ave. in Midtown. Parking is on the street. Contact Sam and Dawn Crowley for more details or directions.
Renovation City Groups will:
•Share meals and conversation
•Confess struggles and pray for one another
• Celebrate life together as a family would
• Seek God in devotion
•Discuss how the gospel applies to our lives
•Exercise spiritual gifts to glorify Jesus and build up the church community
•Be good neighbors in our neighborhoods
•Find opportunities to give and serve
•Engage in social justice and acts of mercy
• Pursue renewal of the broken places of Atlanta
•Live as a family of missionaries
• Seek men and women on mission
• Reconcile relationships:people with Jesus and each other
•Live every routine moment with gospel intentionality