Abbey Agriculture & Trade exists to incarnate Church of the Lamb’s values of stewardship, partnership, beauty, and hospitality. We promote all forms of good work—defined as meaningful labor for the common good, compensated by just wages. We cultivate our land to restore its health and beauty, to make it a hospitable home. We work to establish economic on-ramps to honorable and viable vocations, especially for the disenfranchised. We train students in the common arts and traditional trades, forming the craftsmen who can build and maintain solid infrastructure, beautiful residences, and humane, functional places of work. The common good cannot be sought truly apart from the good of individual families and humans, we work to form the people—in skill and in spirit—who can seek this flourishing.

“But they [craftsmen] keep stable the fabric of the world, and their prayer is in the practice of their trade.” – Sirach 38:34

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• Effective Evangelism and Spiritual Formation

  • The Celtic Way of Evangelism

    • Incarnate/Embody our Values

    • Conversion via Substantive Benevolence and Extensive Hospitality

    • Formation via enchanted worship, contemplation, a rule of life, and the traditional spiritual disciplines of the church (fasting, alms, work, etc.)

• Redeeming Economics & Vocation

  • Draw Content from Rerum novarum, Laborem exercens, and New Polity

  • Financial underwriting of COTL’s mission; economic resilience and antifragility;

  • Dignified work and wages, enchanted labor for the common good, stimulating the local economy; providing economic on-ramps for young people, the disenfranchised.

  • The Church as a Financial Ecosystem

• Reinstituting a sacramental view of reality