HOME

What is hospitality? We define it this way: People and environments that help others feel at home with God, each other, self, and creation. Hospitality is the feeling of home. It is knowing that you are loved. You are seen. You are wanted. And you are missed when you’re away.

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Hospitality is the open door into a home of belonging. A home where wounds are healed, relationships are redeemed, and acceptance looks like a chair for you at the table of mercy.

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One of the stories we see woven through the scriptures tells us that we were created as people who were perfectly at home with God, others, ourselves, and creation. Then, with devastating effect, sin infected every relationship in the cosmos, and we found ourselves homeless. Separated, isolated and wandering aimlessly in desperate hope that we would stumble into a sense of belonging. Generations came and went and all of creation found itself reeling from a homesickness that seemed incurable.

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Into this reality, Jesus came as the embodiment of Divine Hospitality. He came to show us that, in and through him, we could return home and be restored. The good news went out that God, in Christ, was reconciling the whole cosmos to himself (Colossians 1) and that the walls of hostility that divide us have come down (Ephesians 2).

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This summer, we want to retell this good news story and share what it means to be reconciled through our own personal stories of what being at home with God, each other, self or creation has been like and the challenges and joys along the way.

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