APRIL 2019
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH GREENSBORO
CONNECTIONS Emphasizing worship, spiritual development, fellowship, and ministry to our city and our world.
First Baptist Members and Staff enjoying lunch at River Landing on a Monday visit in March.
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he Staff at First Baptist have been trying out a new lunch rotatation in 2019 and it’s been a favorite new tradition. Once a month, staff and members meet around the table at one of the care communities that our members call home. The table, an ordinary, everday object is transformed. We gather around many tables daily, and in our patterned church life, and ofen we think nothing of it. In these ordinary moments we extend the table of the Lord out from the walls of our sanctuary and join in a new feast together. This is what is happening around the tables at Midweek on Wednesday nights and
around the tables of these beloved members. We are extending Christ’s table, enjoying conversation and fellowship in a new environment outside the building of First Baptist Church. So, where does church happen anyway? There is something sacred, indeed, that happens inside of sanctuaries and church buildings, but the sacred can also be found in the ordinariness of lunch around a dining room table. Thanks be to God for this new lunchtime tradition, for the legacy of these beloved members, and for finding church at all of God’s tables.
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