Seven years ago I founded an 'emerging' church in Seattle - Church of the Apostles, (COTA) sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia (www.apostleschurch.org). My passion was to welcome 'spiritual but not religious' people (in particular those from the 'next generations') to seek and be found by God in a church that provided open space for transformational encounter with the Holy Trinity to occur.

COTA has an average member age of 26. We have 25 young seminarians who have joined our congregation. We recenly completed an FTE 'Congregations of Call' grant for our 'Kaleo' discernment process for young adults consideing ordained ministry.

We have re-purposed an old church building into a thriving 'urban abbey' and non-profit community arts center (www.fremontabbey.org).

My title is 'Abbess,'rather than pastor. Our core ministry, reflective of God's core ministry, is that of 'hospitality' which originates within the Trinity. Our mission statement is Rublev's Icon of the Trinity. We draw inspiration from traditional and modern monastics (Benedict, Dorothy Day, Taize, Iona...) in the centering of our common life and work in liturgy and action/prayer and work. We have become an 'emerging, neo-monastic/Anglo Catholic' community, incarnating God's love and welcome in the postmodern, arts, urban and almost 90% non-churched Fremont District in Seattle.

My project would explore the deep connections between 'street and altar' that fueled early Anglo Catholic mission in England and is fueling our young, emerging, neo monastic mission in Seattle.

I would visit selected Anglican mission churches in the UK, USA and Latin America to explore how they are similarly energized for mission by connecting 'street and altar,' - engaging sacramental life and neo monastic practice as fertile grounding for congregational mission within emerging postmodern culture, which calls for engaging urban 'spiritual tourists' with invitation and occasions to become Christian pilgrims.