Posts from 2017
Refugee Welcome Update
Spring is full of hope and the promises of new beginnings. During this Lenten season, we anticipate Christ’s resurrection as we study what came before Easter: 40 grim days in the desert and a sorrowful crucifixion. In hope, The Table is now anticipating the placement of our third refuge family, since we were notified of their arrival in Sacramento this week—almost 40 days to the day after the Jan. 27 executive order on immigration restrictions was signed. Hope springs eternal.…
Refugee Welcome Update
Six weeks ago on a cloudy and windy night, a plane landed late in the evening at Sacramento International Airport. A small family huddled together and walked through the airport gate to make a new home in Sacramento, 7,000 miles away from the one they once knew in Afghanistan. The family of five — Farhat, Adila and their three small children – are the second refugee family The Table has welcomed to the United States. Church volunteers worked around the…
Toward Sunday
We’re so grateful for the many people who helped welcome unhoused guests to The Table this week. We’ll now begin a new worship series called Life Together. The title of our series is taken from a book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor who led a resistance movement during the rise of Hitler and the Nazi regime. Worship over the next two months will invite and challenge us to consider what costly discipleship might look like at this moment in…