As we welcome the promises of a new year, please join friends from around Western Massachusetts for a virtual discussion of This is God’s Table – Finding Church Beyond the Walls.  In this compelling and readable new book, local writer and pastor Anna Woofenden, a prophetic voice in the faith and food movement, writes about her experience founding and nurturing the Garden Church in San Pedro, California. As author Sara Miles says in the book’s Foreword, “Woofenden shares the story of what happened when she gardened, worshiped, and ate with anyone who would join her. As churches across the Western world wither, what would it take to find a raw, honest, gritty way of doing church – one rooted in place, nurtured by grace, and grounded in God’s expansive love? What would it take to carry the liturgy outside the gates? What if we were to discover that in feeding others, we are fed? This is God’s table. Come and eat.”

Our conversations will take place on Zoom over four Thursday evenings from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., Jan. 14 and 28, Feb. 11 and 25.  Please buy the book and plan to read 4 chapters for each meeting,  beginning with chapters 1 - 4 for  Jan 14. You are welcome to attend as many sessions as you can.  The final meeting will include a Q and A session with the author. We will send out the zoom link the day before our gatherings.  For more information, please email one of the facilitators:  Maggie Sweeney (magsween10@yahoo.com) or Harvey Hill (revharveyhill@gmail.com).  

Thank you for registering!