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Common Ground Troy is the third Common Ground site in Alabama. In addition to these sites, a camp is being renovated in Verbena, Alabama, that will help serve summer camp needs as well as being made available for small groups throughout the academic school year.
Common ground montgomery
The first Common Ground organization was started in Montgomery in 2006 by Bryan Kelly. A graduate of Troy University and Reformed Theological Seminary, Bryan moved into the westside of Montgomery, Alabama, and volunteer coached with the Carver High School football team. By 2009, CGM had purchased a building on Mobile Road, hosted their first summer camp with 80 students, and saw their attendance in their after school programs jump from 40 to 100 students.
CGM moved on from after school programs in 2023 and currently operates a pre-K program and is renovating their Onawa Camp & Retreat Center (which will be a year round camp that will provide free access to youth organizations like CGT and Common Ground Shoals to name a few).
common ground shoals
Started in 2017 by roommates Lee Mayhall and Sky Stewart in Florence, Alabama.
Lee spent two summers as an intern with CGM, and it gave him a heart to want to give back, serve, and walk beside some of Florence’s most vulnerable youth. Sky, knowing what it was like to live with such adversity, grew in compassion to want to help those to whom he could relate with so much. That Lee and Sky were roommates was quite serendipitous, and they, together with their church, started CGS.
CGS is now co-run by directors Sky Stewart and Fabian Cortez, (with Lee helping part-time).