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What people are saying
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"Setting the table for dinner church nurtures a Great Commission environment where the priesthood of believers is deployed, professions of faith are made, and new communities of faith take shape."
Rev. Dr. Heather M. Jallad, Pastor, Dinner Church Practitioner
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"Jesus invites us to the table to nourish our body and souls in order for communities to grow they must be fed spiritually."
Nathan and Claudia Shipley, Dinner Church Practitioners
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“What is God up to?” is the question I’m most often asked. “Have you heard of dinner church?” is my most common answer.
Lenard Sweet, Author, From Tablet to Table
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"The training was clutch for us. We were building the plan as it was taking off, and our dinner church is flying today because of the collective's help."
JD Larson, Dinner Church Pastor, Minneapolis
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"Dinner church is not only one of our region’s most successful strategies, but it is sweeping across our land."
Don Ross, Northwest Ministry Network Leader
What makes a dinner church different?
80 churches close every week in the US. Dinner Church Collective helps pioneering leaders understand the approach used by Jesus’ first Apostles to start churches so they can use it today...
Get leaders together and gameplan
Our day conferences are designed to give you and your team what you need to get a dinner church movement started in your area or among your network.
Books
Dive into the dinner church learning journey with these fresh expressions books:
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Church was not always done the way we do it. There was a time when Christians gathered around tables, included the strangers and the poor, ate together, and talked about Jesus. This form of church occurred mostly during the first three hundred years of Christianity and was highly effective in bringing lost people to Jesus. While the church of today is very meaningful to Christ-followers, it is failing to help our lost neighbors and their way to the Savior. That is no small concern for Jesus’ churches, all of which are called to be in the rescue business.
This little book examines what it might be like for a traditional church to plant a dinner church in a nearby hurting neighborhood. Revelation 3:20 makes it clear that Jesus still wants to have dinner with sinners. That likely means he wants his church to set the table.
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In Dinner Church: Building Bridges by Breaking Bread, Verlon Fosner unveils how the ancient dinner church was rebirthed in his Seattle community and how that vision changed his congregation forever. These pages also o er a compelling case for why many churches would do well to pause and see the pockets of lost people within the shadow of their steeples and consider how a Jesus dinner table might open up a door to heaven for those neighbors. Revelation 3:20 makes it clear that Jesus still wants to have dinner with sinners. That likely means he wants his church to set the table.
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A guide for leaders and teams who are feeling called to plant a Jesus table in their city. It deals with practical things like where to plant, how to fund it, impressive menu’s that average cooks can make happen, etc.
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Prayer Practice for Those on the Front Lines of the Gospel; Prayer that fuels the Mission of the Church.
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How to change lives using the 468 Jesus narratives
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The stories about Jesus―and the stories Jesus told―have changed the world. They are still changing it today.
