Abilene Development Enterprises (AbiDE) is all about creating such vibrant community in our small town home of Abilene, Texas.
A place of joy, life, and love.
A people with whom to share it all.
A way to abide in home at its best.
AbiDE develops permanently affordable regenerative communities.
Our strategy combines affordable and mixed-income housing, education and training in sustainable governance and community development practices, and permaculture strategies for regenerative land use.
Together, all of this results in a place worthy of calling home and a people worthy of calling family. A life you can joyfully abide in.
What if, in our time, we could realistically offer every person on Earth secure, high quality shelter, food, water and energy in a joyful, intergenerational community of God’s love? Wouldn’t this be good news?
The truth is, such communities exist. And we need more of them, ultimately in close reach of everyone, as wellsprings of health and possibility across the neighborhoods, towns and cities of the world.
And we need people who are willing to do the hard work of learning this new/old way of life themselves and nurturing this life in the unique ways that fit the people and place where they live.
Training such people and nurturing such places is the work of AbiDE.