The Table at BICTE We share conversations around the table We share meals around the table We bring listening hearts and hungry ears to the table We set a table in expectation of beloved guests We exercise hospitality and care for each other by re-imagining our places of gathering and learning Our table represents a place for dialogue nurturing growth Our table seeks to represent the gifts and graces of women created in God’s own image Re-reading to celebrate: women who proclaim Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again women who nurture young hearts women who serve faithfully through ministries of word and action women who cradle waning bodies women who work for unity in God’s Church women who build bridges women who labor for peace in God’s Creation women who usher reconciliation women who embody God’s love and salvation to all Jesus taught us seated around tables of discernment Jesus welcomed us all to tables of hope Jesus flipped tables that promoted injustice and greed Jesus taught us service and leadership around tables Jesus enacted his own life-giving sacrifice around tables Jesus embodied humility and displayed holiness in the most lowly and unexpected way while washing his disciple’s feet in a deeply intimate gesture, Jesus demonstrated caregiving to feet that often tread unrested, uncomfortable paths during this ordinary act of cleaning his disciple’s feet, Jesus was charging those feet to proclaim peace to bring good tidings to proclaim salvation to herald God’s Kingdom How beautiful are these feet!
2019 BICTE CONFERENCE
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