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The Rev. Audra Abt,
Mission Developer and Pastor
Audra has been an Episcopal priest since 2010 and is passionate about nurturing relationships across social lines and creating possibilities in community for hope, restoration, and collective flourishing. Along with developing this new Episcopal community of Abundant Life, she also serves as the Vicar of Church of the Holy Spirit. (Read more at bottom of page)
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Genie Logue, RN, Community Nurse
Genie brings decades of experience working with Cone Health and is excited to serve Abundant Life and our international community. Genie offers Tuesday afternoon clinic hours along with a home- and neighborhood-visit ministry for our most isolated families.
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The Rev. Maureen Flak, Deacon, RN
Maureen brings a wealth of experience as a congregational nurse in local parishes as well as among refugee communities in Greensboro. With Abundant Life, she is a bridge-builder with partner congregations, orients volunteers, and offers pastoral support and care.
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Shirley Azucena, Missioner
Bilingual Health Outreach & Community Development
Shirley brings a CNA background and is a liscensed medical interpreter. Teaming with Nurse Genie, she offers interpretation services and follow-up support for families seeking health care access. She is also guiding spiritual community groups as they grow in their life of local worship and mutual service with neighbors.
Dr. Sharon Morrison,
UNCG Public Health, internships
Sharon is a bridge-building member of Holy Spirit who also works in the UNCG Public Health Program. Her ministry is connecting students to Abundant Life for meaningful semester-long internships. We are all benefitting! As young people hone professional skills, our community learns, gains needed resources and support for health care, and develops capacity to organize and address common concerns together.
A message from The Rev. Audra Abt, Mission Developer
I’m writing to you, my neighbor, my compañera y compañero, my partners. I am thankful and excited to get to be part of seeking Abundant Life, and God’s health and healing, with you!
In my life I’ve gotten to serve as a pastor and mission developer for a house church ministry among Latin American immigrants as well as serve in the Episcopal parishes of Church of the Holy Spirit and St. Andrew’s in Greensboro NC. I’ve also gotten to coordinate mission grants for the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina through the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, teach in K-1 classrooms in Cleveland, OH, and live and teach in rural Bahia, Brazil, where I experienced a call to ordained ministry while learning from amazing and faithful people steeped in God’s movement of liberation and concern for the poor.
I am inspired by the resilience, resistance, and creativity of people in my community, especially those who haven’t historically found an easy belonging in the church or gotten to participate in decision-making that affects their lives. God is working everywhere and always, and I’m excited to take part in God’s creation of a new community of neighbors where we can learn, serve and minister together in ways that make us come alive. It makes my heart sing! I want to be part of a movement where we’re seeking healing and health in the parts of our individual and collective life that are hurting, and create time and space to cherish each other and discover what a more abundant life looks like.
Yours in faith y la lucha,
Audra
Abundant Life Ministries 