Here We Are
Like so many other LGBTQIA+ children of God, we have experienced the dissonance that happens from being part of a church that is unable to recognize the fullness of our humanity.
We have experienced the pain of being told the church has no room for our full selves.
We have also experienced the transforming power of communities where people are seen in the fullness of who they are.
We understand what it is to sing because we have to sing. We understand resurrection because so many of us have experienced it ourselves….
Queer people have a unique perspective on their faith because in order to hold on to it, so many of us have had to walk through our own shadows of death.
Claiming our belovedness as queer people has taught us the power of claiming embodiment as the holy gift it is.
That’s why we have come together to build a new foundation for how we embody church.
Queer people have a unique perspective on their faith because in order to hold on to it, so many of us have had to walk through our own shadows of death.Claiming our belovedness as queer people has taught us the power of claiming embodiment as the holy gift it is.
OUR STORY…
When the three of us connected in 2021, it was clear we’d each been on our own journey to bring a message of hope free from affectation to the church.
Independent of one another, we had been gathering with people envisioning a new worshiping community based in Richmond, Virginia, a city with wounds as old as this nation.
We all felt called to create spaces of abundant welcome focused on healing and reconciliation.
A year later and we have started a new worshiping community, through the Presbytery of the James.
We’re calling it EveryTable.
EveryTable is a space where everybody can embody worship.
Why Every Table?
Jesus didn’t have a table…
Jesus ate at tables where he was welcomed, and almost never were those tables within the walls of the Temple…
Every table where Jesus is welcomed is his table…
And every table where he is welcomed also welcomes the disenfranchised masses…
At EveryTable, our mission is to encounter the living abundance of God through embodied reconciliation, with the First and Second Commandments as our guide.
We want to experience the fullness of what it means to be alive, and to live in the abundant community proclaimed at the heart of the Gospel.
We envision a world where every child is born with the structure and support to live into the fullness of who they are created to be.
We are seeking our healing and the healing of this world, to eradicate ourselves from the disease of white supremacy.
We are drawing together with the trust that the Spirit is moving between and among us, weaving us together as she draws us into herself.
We have an ambitious vision, we know. We’re not naive about the resources it will take to build a new foundation for the church. One that is equitable, that prioritizes the bodies of people participating and cultivates regular spaces for embodied worship as well as healing programs.
