a place of refuge and restoration
Community Rule of Life Abba’s House is a mission of welcome, which means we who serve there are “Missionaries of Welcome”. God has called us to join Him as protectors of the oppressed (Isaiah 58, 61; Matthew 25). Therefore we as His Missionaries of Welcome, individually and collectively, commit to protect, love, and serve each …
As a house of welcome, those who incarnate Jesus among its guests are missionaries of welcome. Why?
What is God's heart for the poor stranger in 2018?
During the month of November, we are debuting and selling our new Abba's House t-shirts! All month we will collect orders, and when you buy a shirt, you will also be giving a shirt to a refugee woman or child who will stay with us in 2018. Our desire is to bless every guest that …
Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations. (Isaiah 62:10) Happy New Year! As we enter 2017, Abba’s House of Welcome (the refugee portion of Abba’s House) would like to continue introducing our board members to all …
[ Jesus Comforts His Disciples ] “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s [Abba's] house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare …
"My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places." (Isaiah 32:18) Author/Julie Behold, the Lord comes to save us. *O come, let us worship Him! (invitatory) As I read the scripture passages from my Treasury of Daily Prayer today, these words from Isaiah were like fresh water to my …
"By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not …
Continuing to ponder The Annunciation (see https://abbashousetexas.com/2016/12/01/may-it-be-done-unto-me/)--the angel Gabriel's announcement to Mary that she would bear the Savior, and her response--and the soul-stirring painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, what do you wonder? I wonder what Mary was doing when Gabriel appeared to her. I wonder if she was in the middle of prayer, asking God …
An Advent devotion for December 1st *Behold, the Lord comes to save us. O come, let us worship Him. (Advent Invitatory from Treasury of Daily Prayer) The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off …
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