Hello and welcome! My name is Ginger and I’m your host but even more, and perhaps my favorite function in life…I’m a friend!
We are going to make our table more than a place to collect mail or a piece of furniture. My hope is we’ll make our table one of our greatest assets!
We’ll gather around, we’re gonna know & feel belonging, in fact, let’s allow things to get messy and best yet how about we not agree on everything! No conforming here! We will love, celebrate and honor every single person!
It’s not the oblatory table of due diligence. This is a safe place - a safe place to share victories, dream together, share & process loss, pain, hurts, hopes for the present and future, lets talk about how amazing Jesus is! We don’t need to worry about how it’s said or heard. The spirit of religion and offense will not be invited… ever! We’ll have a variation of topics as well as family, friends, and some times even strangers! But they won’t leave that way!
My hope is we encounter God! That we learn to enjoy the processing or hard conversation. We aren’t talking for talking sake - we are sharing for the sake of freedom! Dispelling lies! We are taking back our relationships and we are going to be better because we met, we gathered, we talked, we were vulnerable. We have partnered with our secret hurts and struggles long enough. The body of Christ was meant to be the safest, most gracious, truthful, loving place of all. It’s suppose to be a place to fail safely and still belong. I believe we are living in a time when it is the last place people want to be in or try to fit in to. It was never suppose to be a place of trying, only being, transformation through encountering the Presence of God and belonging but I digress!
Let’s see, hear, and valuing each other and what’s being said. Let’s be open to being corrected. Hearing to be healed. Let’s get another perspective. Let’s chew on another’s thought. I know you’re going to enjoy this table AND it’s going to spill over onto your own!
Here’s to unscripted, sometimes messy conversation, here’s to relationship building and thriving. Grab your drink, grab your plate, pull out a chair, any chair, come close and man alive am I glad you showed up and are here! Let’s do this! Oh…and NOTHING is off the table!
