Carrie Black finds a home in the Episcopal Church as well as manages The Abbey in Birmingham, Alabama. The Abbey is a community coffee shop in the Avondale neighborhood of Birmingham. It is a nonprofit project of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. The Abbey’s mission is to offer a place of hospitality and conversation to the community.

On Thursday, November 10, Thursdays at 2 will feature Carrie Black at The Abbey in Alabama.

Thursdays at 2 is a weekly preview of Episcopal Church innovative ministries. Every Thursday at 2 pm Eastern, a new video illustrating the work of congregations and individuals will be posted on the Episcopal Church’s Facebook page here and YouTube Channel here 

Produced by the Episcopal Church Office of Communications, previously posted videos featured on Thursdays at 2 include:

• Young Adult Service Corps
• The Crossing
• United Thank Offering at St. Paul’s Senior Center
• Amazing Grace
• Creating Us
• St. Thomas Choir School
• Bridal designer Anne Barge
• Musician Mike Notter
• Reflections by Brother Geoffrey
• Ferguson Pilgrimage
• I am a missionary: The Rev. Jimmy Bartz
• Potluck Dinners
• Jericho Road
• Jennifer Caldwell  and Episcopal Moments
• Bluestone Farms and the Community of the Holy Spirit
• The Abundant Table
• Missional Voices
• Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on World Refugee Day 2016
• Church on the Square in Baltimore
• Episcopal Church Advocacy
• Missional Communities
• Mobile Loaves and Fishes, a food truck ministry in the Diocese of Rhode Island
• Double Down on Love, an original song from the Thad’s Band in Santa Monica, CA, Diocese of Los Angeles
• The Slate Project, an Episcopal, Lutheran and Presbyterian congregation that exists online and in person.
• The Rev. Scott Claasan of St Michael’s University Church reflecting on how music and surfing led him back to church. 

For more information contact Mike Collins, Episcopal Church Manager of Multimedia.