This fall, as we focused on community, we encouraged the practice of eating together. This is something that forms community – and has been a central practice of the church from the very beginning. To facilitate this, we held a ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Lunch’ event – where people signed up as a host or guest to simply enjoy a meal together on a Sunday afternoon. We had over 60 sign-ups and the responses were positive – it’s something we will certainly be doing again. Here’s a note from Pearl who wrote this reflection for the newsletter:

Guess Who’s Coming was a wonderful event planned by the church. We signed up as being willing to host. We were set up with 5 people joining us. It was so nice to connect over a meal with these 5 people. Two couples, one older than us and one couple younger and a widower. We had such a great time chatting about all kinds of things together. It was positive, uplifting and so very “gezellig”. We used to invite people over after church all the time and for whatever reason, just don’t do it as often anymore. This was just the little push we needed. We love it!  Thanks for organizing it.  — Pearl 

With the positive feedback from Pearl and others – this is something we’d definitely like to do again! If you’d like to help organize this in the future let Pastor Steve or Pastor Ben know. And, you don’t need to wait until the next event – lets continue this practice of eating with others and building community at Living Hope!