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Evolving Faith 2022
Home Events Growing in Faith Evolving Faith 2022

Evolving Faith 2022

  • October 14 – 15, 2022
  • 9:30am-5:30pm Friday & Saturday
  • 5265 H Street Sacramento, CA 95819
  • Fireside Room
  • Growing in Faith
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Evolving Faith was originally created by Rachel Held Evans, Jeff Chu, Sarah Bessey and others to envision a community where the thirsty become water-bearers, the hungry become bread-makers, the wounded are our healers, the misfits become friends, and the wanderers find a home. Evolving Faith 2022 will be a live online gathering held Friday (October 14) and Saturday (October 15).

The Table will be purchasing group tickets to the Evolving Faith 2022 conference. While you may register with our group and experience the gathering from home or work, we will also be meeting as a small group in the Fireside Room to experience the online gathering together for anyone interested and available.

Here is a list of the speakers & artists. Here’s a link to more information about the conference.

Here is a schedule for the conference (please note, we plan to view the conference together on a three-hour delay because the event is structured for those on the East coast).

The cost for each participant based on our group discounted rate is $119.

register for our group from The Table umc here.

Conference Frequently Asked Questions. Our group participants will have access to Evolving Faith 2022 until January 2023. This includes access to the Evolving Faith Community, with opportunities to DM, join private groups like the LGBTQ+ community, and post publicly.

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Sunday Worship Gatherings

  • May 24
  • 9:30am & 11:00am In-Person / 9:30am via thetable.live
Sunday Worship at The Table. 9:30 am and 11:00 am.

Sermons

Being A Blessing / Being Blessed

  • Yesterday
  • Come Alive!
Being awake to God, learning to be comfortable in our own skin, leaning into our pain, being open to the journey, and embracing restfulness are some of the ways we’ve explored…

Being Restful

  • May 10, 2026
  • Come Alive!
Barbara Brown Taylor says, “In a world of too much information about almost everything, bodily practices can provide great relief. … In a world where faith is often construed as a…

Being On The Journey

  • May 3, 2026
  • Come Alive!
In our scripture reading for this Sunday, we find Abram setting out on a journey, heading into an unknown land. This is just one of many journeys we find throughout scripture –…

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"Messianic Secret"
FROM THE ARTIST:
“Messianic Secret”
Inspired by John 2:1-11
14″x18″ Acrylic on canvas

The Wedding at Cana is my favorite text because there is a lot of humor in it. There’s humor in a mother approaching her son and telling him to do something without ever actually telling him to do it. There’s his pouty resistance to his mother’s non-demand while she completely ignores him and paints him in a corner. There is humor in a raucous wedding reception where the people are so “lit” that the wine has run out. And, for me, it’s particularly humorous that there’s this huge, beautiful secret of which only a few people are aware.

Those people include Jesus’ mother and the select servants who help him pull off the miracle that inaugurates his ministry. Servants are normally meant to be inconspicuous, so I wanted to focus on the servant who goes to the chief steward with a cup full of what, as far as he’s concerned, is water.

If Jesus—whose ministry has not started, so there haven’t been any wonders associated with him yet—tells you to fill jars with water and draw from the jar to give to the chief steward, what is going through your mind at that moment? I invite the viewer to focus on this servant and all his curiosity and expectation, and think of a time when you were surprised by something God did. What actions preceded the miracle? Did it make sense? What did you know, and what was hidden from you? What “secrets” might God be keeping from you now as God works clandestinely on your behalf?

—Rev. T. Denise Anderson