Nia N. Battle, MPH
Director of Programs & Community Engagement
Nia brings experience in health coaching, workplace wellness, nutrition, diabetes education, and a heart for serving the community. As Missioner she coordinates volunteers, coordinates communications, supervises interns, and develop community leaders.
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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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Albar Arvizu, Missioner
Bilingual Health Outreach
Albar brings experience as a nutritionist, coach, and health counselor. Albar advocates for uninsured Latino community members, offers health coaching, and provides follow-up support for families seeking health care access.
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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.
Carolina Santamaria, Missioner
Bilingual Health Outreach
Carolina just completed her Bachelor’s in Public Health Education from UNCG and served as an intern with Abundant Life prior to joining the team. Working closely with Nurse Genie, Albar and Nia, she offers interpretation and support for families seeking health care access and spiritual community.
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. As young people hone professional skills, our community learns, gains resources and health care support, and develops capacity to organize and address common concerns together.
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The Rev. Audra Abt, Pastor
Audra helped develop and launch Abundant Life beginning in 2019 and served until Feb. 2024.
Feb. 15, 2024 A message from The Rev. Audra Abt, Founding Mission Developer
I’m writing to you, my neighbor, my compañera y compañero, my partners. I am thankful and excited to have gotten to be part of seeking Abundant Life, and God’s health and healing, with you! Even though I am leaving, I will always take you with me in my heart.
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 the people in this 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 have been privileged and honored to take part in God’s creation of a new community of neighbors where we learn, serve and minister together in ways that make us come alive. It makes my heart sing, and I will take that song with me!
I helped nurture this new community because 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. My prayer for all who are touched by Abundant Life’s ministry and work can discover something of this dream as well.
Yours in faith y la lucha,
Audra
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