Alabare

Alabaré Christian Community

15 Tollgate Road
Wilton, Near Salisbury
Wilts SP1 2JA

England

Tel: 01722 501586

Fax: 01722501586

www.alabare.org

Christian - Ecumenical - Open Spirituality

The Alabaré Christian Community Charitable Trust was founded by John & Alicia Proctor in 1984 in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex. Twelve months later they moved to Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire where the Community has developed ever since. The purpose of the community was to encourage Christians of differing denominations to work and pray together in order to give witness to their faith in Jesus Christ and make a greater impact on society. Alabaré is Spanish for I will praise.

On moving to Wilton they established a family home in what had been a convent and were known as Maranatha House of Prayer. This was an open house that welcomed anyone that came whether they be the men of the road seeking a warm drink and a meal, or people in crisis requiring love and shelter or Christians gathering to give praise to God. During this time the Community became a Covenant Community where the members made a commitment to one another and began to tithe a portion of their income to the work of the Community.

These very demands led them into prayer and discernment as to how they could continue to meet the needs that kept presenting themselves and in 1991 they founded a further charity Alabaré Christian Care Centres to facilitate the outreach ministry of the Community.

The Community of Alabare is working to provide spiritual renewal, accommodation for homeless people, a caring Christian Community for adults with learning disabilities, Counselling, Day Care activities for people on low incomes, and an Information Bureau for people with disabilities and their carers. They also offer supported employment schemes and are now working with some of the most vulnerable who have suffered from drug and alcohol dependency.

Alabaré Catholic Fellowship

In November 2009 Alabare celebrate 25 years of the Alabaré Christian Community which is open to all denominations. As part of otheir celebrations they are developing denominational Fellowships under the umbrella of the Community for the ongoing formation of faith in accordance with church doctrine. They hope that these Fellowships will be used by the church to work in areas of evangelisation and catechesis under the discipline of the respective church authority. The first Fellowship to be created is the Roman Catholic Fellowship which will be constituted in Canon Law under the authority and guidance of the Bishop of Clifton. Please contact Alabare for details for attending this important celebration.