Gather - Tuesdays 6:30pm
Dinner Church
Come hungry. Around one table, we share a meal, read scriptures, tell our stories, and remember we belong to each other - that's Dinner Church. No pews, no program, just a seat that's already yours.
Every Tuesday evening we set up one long table and welcome whoever comes- neighbors, church members, regulars, first timers, families, people who haven’t felt home in a church in years, those who are simply curious, those who are hungry. We eat together, we hear scripture, and we pray for one another.
There is no cost, no sign up, and no expectation. You don’t need to believe in anything in particular or bring anything at all. A seat is already saved for you.
What to Expect
6:15 | A greeter is waiting at the covered doors on Farriss Ave to welcome you in.
6:30- 7:30pm | The service begins and the meal is served. Come as you are - straight from work, with kids, with a friend. Whether it's 3 of us or 20, we eat together.
7:30 | Closing benediction, then we clear the table together and head home.
WHERE THE MODEL COMES FROM
Modeled after St. Lydia's Dinner Church
Our Dinner Church is patterned after St. Lydia's, a dinner church community in Brooklyn, NY, that revived the ancient practice of gathering for worship around a shared meal - cooking, eating, and praying together as one continuous act, the way the earliest followers of Jesus did. Like St. Lydia's, we believe the table itself is the liturgy: the meal is not a prelude to worship, it is worship.
Our Dinner Church liturgy
Curious what we pray around the table? You're welcome to read our full Dinner Church worship service.
Our Agape Feast liturgy is adapted from the Secular Lay Reader Order liturgy (slr-ofs.org), which was itself drawn from the Iona Abbey Worship Book of the Iona Community, Scotland (iona.org.uk).