Dinner Church

2nd & 4th Sundays, 12:00pm

Potluck Style - bring something to share if you can (NOT REQUIRED - Bringing yourself is more important).

What is a "Dinner Church"?

Over the past couple of years, we have been on a journey exploring what “church” really should be -vs- what it currently is in our society.

Along the way we encountered Author & friend Kendall Vanderslice, and her work, the Edible Theology project. Through this project, our eyes and hearts were opened to something genuinely amazing that is happening all across our country...and in other parts of the world. People, like us, are gathering together over a full meal where they break bread together; worship together; discuss the scriptures & vital topics together; pray together and actually lead...together as one.

According to the dictionary, the word translated as "church" in Christian theology is Ecclesia (or Ekklesia); and it means both a particular body of faithful people, and the whole body of the faithful. It can be correctly translated also as a "gathering". Dinner church brings back the concept of the “Body”, where every part is necessary for the whole and all participate together.

The very idea of “Dinner Church” is welcoming, warm, inviting, encouraging, and practicing Biblical hospitality at it’s core. It’s showing and celebrating Jesus IN US and IN THE ROOM (“where 2 or 3 are gathered in my name, I am there”). It’s also a place where “outsiders” or the “un-churched” can feel welcome & wanted; while being exposed to Jesus love & work...isn’t this the point of the Gospel?

Does this sound like something you or your friends & family would like to participate in? Would you like to meet with a group of Believers in Jesus who truly seek to be a community and a body, where everyone has a part and a voice? We invite you then to contact us, and come join us! We typically meet on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month (unless a month has 5 Sundays...then we spread it out a bit).

We close with this quote from authors Paul Nixon & Beth Estock in their book “Weird Church”

"I attended a Dinner Church once where dinner started with the breaking of loaves of bread at each table, and the leader said something like this: “As we begin our meal, we break bread, and we remember that though we are many, we are all connected – we are one body, one human family – all of us: friends of Jesus, who gave himself fully to human beings.” At the end, we poured a little more wine, and we toasted, “To Jesus, who is alive, in us… luring us to take the way less traveled and to love our neighbors this week.” And, naturally, other toasts arose in the room. With these simple rituals of bread and wine, book-ending the dinner and all that happened at the dinner, we had church that night. My, did we have church!